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Kathmandu Thursday June 14, 2001 Jestha 32, 2058.
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Naked colonial hangover
One has to respect those who are intelligent.
Intelligent people are free to carry their
pyjama with them. But they should at least cover their wheatish and hairy thighs with
their pyjama. If intelligentsia works with sufficient data and passes comment on any
subject, this becomes valid. If the case is not so, what respect should be given to such
mind. This is the question that struck my mind after reading Kuldip Nayar’s article
entitled Doubts that will not down published June 11, TKP. His witty remark
—"Nepal like Bangladesh can’t afford to have a shut down like this because
the daily wagers who are in majority, have to miss their meals" -- gave me an
electric shock and aroused the sense that the metamorphosis of British raj still exists in
Nayar’s mind.
My mind goes parallel with his, regarding the
view of shutdown but the premise has colonial hangover, Nepal and Bangladesh to Nayar
means the subjects of inferiority and his perspective is the product of superiority. It
perhaps did not occur to Nayar that there is another country too which the same conclusion
is valid. What has made him to justify his claim that wagers are in majority in Nepal and
Bangladesh? The term wager has a broad meaning. Nayar writes for The Kathmandu Post and
gets remuneration is a wage or not? If his use of derogatory term ‘wagers’
signifies to the people of lowest stratum who cannot sustain their life without working
even a single day, I regard him the economist of twenty first century. Writing should have
logic is the demand of time and one of the elements for respect to intelligentsia if he
writes for the Big Brother. I should not have a headache. If he has some pragmatic concern
and evaluates his readers’ mind, he should not show his naked colonial hangover.
Khagendra Acharya Badri
Samakhusi, Kathmandu |
