Letters (Spotlight Weekly)

Hopeful Event

I enjoyed your story of NRN conference. The conference was a kind of surprising but really hopeful event for many Nepalese people (“NRN Jamboree” SPOTLIGHT October 17). We have to thank the government and the FNCCI for taking the initiative to bring the scattered brethren across the world together. We are happy to know they still love their motherland. Their love for their land is commendable. We are more hopeful that they will soon take part in the developmental works of the nation. We don’t have to wait too long to see what they can do for the nation since in every two years, they have said, they will gather again this way to assess their achievement. Now, we have to wait and see whether their assembly Kathmandu was fruitful. They have made promises and the government too has given its word for making suitable legislations to facilitate their investment.

Gaurav Rajbhandari
Putalisadak

Exploit The Opportunities

NRN delegates have concluded their conference with the demands for the legal facilities for investment (“Overtures from Overseas”, SPOTLIGHT October 17). They may be right from their point. But when there are enough opportunities for them in existing scenario what prevents them for investing in the land where they were born and brought up? Why are they reluctant to invest their money in their motherland? They need to study the present legal provisions, too. If they have true love for the motherland they must once think to invest their money here despite everything.

Dipesh Subedi
Battisputali

Media Might

In my opinion media can play a vital role to aware the adolescents about reproductive health. Unfortunately the media in our country is limited to disseminate the reports of researches and surveys (“Grim Projection” SPOTLIGHT, October 17). The media rarely writes on such topics but they don’t fail to publish pictures of a half clad female models in their papers/magazines, or beam erotic scenes through TV channels all over the world baffling the adolescents into further confusion. The media has to think seriously on how to disseminate the knowledge about reproduction. In our society where sex related subjects are taboo, it is not easy to change the perception of the people. A number of NGOs are actively involved in educating adolescents about reproductive health and have done a good job, too. But the efforts seem insufficient to educate and aware the youth population. So, it is advisable to educate and inform the adolescents about this subject by means of media.

Krishna Hamal
Bangemuda

Rash Remarks

I sent this letter to a leading English daily after I read Dr. Sundermani Dixit’s mad outburst against the United States in a leading English daily of 22 October 2003. They did not publish it. So, I am sending it to you hoping you will publish it.

I have the privilege of knowing Dr. Dixit’s full antecedents. He may not as he was a small child. His father was a petty employee at Madan Shamsher’s palace whose whole property of hundreds of millions was misappropriated by his cunning parents after Madan Shamsher met a mysterious death. The Dixits are a big and well-known community in Kathmandu and they all are fully aware of this fact. In any other country his parents would have been meted out proper punishment. Dr. Dixit’s family’s love for India has been well established. Their ambition of Sikkimizing Nepal has been made amply clear by the media run by his family. Perhaps his ambition of becoming chief minister of Nepal, he must be thinking is being thwarted by the United States ambassador to Nepal Michael Malinowski. And his knowledge of diplomatic etiquette is so poor that he should go to the mukhias and khardars of the foreign office in Nepal and take some lessons before he writes something on it again. We here not only think but believe that United States is the more dependable friend of Nepal than India. I would like to advise Dr. Dixit not to force me to divulge more damaging news about him and his family. He must thank his lucky stars that his family has escaped the tentacles of justice. If the law in Nepal had taken the just course, perhaps, he would have never completed his medical education and become a doctor. So Dr. Dixit, bye for now. I do hope this small node will be able to refresh your memory and refrain you from making mad comments.

Dixit
Denver. Colo. U.S.A.
Via email

Useless Confrontation

The article “A Sip of Reconciliation” (SPOTLIGHT, October 17) portrays the present political equation in the country. The five party alliance has failed to rock the present government. At the same time the rift between the parties of the alliance has further widened after Koirala invited the Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa to an annual Dashain tea reception last month. It does not necessarily mean Koirala has chosen reconciliatory steps for good. If he has really decided to reconcile with the government, he will be right. The movement did not bring any changes in the political scenario. It rather deteriorated their position. After the split of the Congress, Koirala cannot pull the bullock alone when Deuba has taken some bright and energetic cadres away from him. It also seems that he is too exhausted now physically as well as mentally.

Lalit Rai
Kumaripati