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Kathmandu,Monday April 24, 2000 Baishakh 12, 2057.
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Negative Nepalese mind-set
Apropos to the interesting article "Isn’t
Nepal’s democracy already up to USA standards?" (9th April 2000), I would like
to add a few points regarding the general mind-set Nepalese people have developed in the
last ten years of democracy. Majority of them have started criticizing anything that could
be termed as Nepalese.
This tendency of negative thinking on the part of
Nepalese population in general has created such a situation that nobody is ready to even
think of a single merit or benefit or advantage in any activities taking place in the
country. For instance, the bottomline message from the general public as well as the press
is: don’t go for purchase of Boeing jet or for projects like Melamchi or Arun or
Enron or for that matter any development project, because it will lead to corruption at
high places.
I agree with Mr Tamang that the political problem
in Nepal should be taken as a political problem only, which is the case in any other
democratic country of the world. But the problem is that, unlike in USA and other
developed countries of the world, our political masters are not content to remain in the
political arena alone, they want to participate actively and interfere in each and every
other’s governmental and non-governmental activities which has nothing to do with
politics.
Sugat Ratna Kansakar
Kamaladi, Kathmandu |
