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End Confrontation The cover story “When Will Good Sense
Prevail” (SPOTLIGHT April 16) aptly pointed out how the confrontation could ruin the
whole of the country. Until and unless the political actors come to their senses and
realize the futility of confrontation, the country would get no respite from the current
turmoil. Unfortunately, instead of coming together, the forces are drifting away from each
other dangerously. Kiran Sharma Take To The Streets The cover story about the ongoing political
scenario “When Will Good Sense Prevail” (SPOTLIGHT April 16) diagnosed the
situation of the country clearly. Now that the agitation has started to directly affect
all spheres of life, it is our responsibility to fight for democracy. I am a democrat, so
I believe in multiparty democracy with Kingship as a respected institution symbolizing
unity. But looking from the perspective of majority of the citizens, I feel that it does
not matter to them who is ruling as long as they can freely engage in their day-to-day
activities unhindered. But now the situation has changed. For example, the shopkeepers of
Bagbazar, Ratnapark and Bhotahity area, the center of agitation are facing a compulsion to
close down their shops for weeks. If this goes on, how are they going to pay their rent
and meet other daily expenses? Similar situation is hounding almost all of us in one-way
or the other. So, it is our responsibility to fight for ourselves, if not for the
sovereignty of the country. It’s high time for all of us to contemplate about the
future of our country and spare some time and energy for the country (or rather ourselves
for the better country implies better ourselves). So, let us all fight to reestablish
democracy and reactivate the constitution. Kamal Regmi Referring Karate The performance of the Nepalese players in
Pakistan in the ninth SAF Games was undoubtedly poor, “Ninth SAF Games: A Push Back
to Nepal” (SPOTLIGHT April 9). But the players are not the ones to be blamed. The
lack of preparation and the apathy shown towards the event by the authorities largely
accounted to the failure at Rawalpindi. Although, they managed to get just a single
gold medal in karate they had performed well. The criteria of choosing the winner are not
very clear and objective in Karate. A panel of five jurists, including one
chief jury, gives the decision of the winner after each round of fights of certain time
duration. There is no clear-cut system. Even the number rounds are often different from
one match to the other. So, Nepalese Karate players need not be disappointed by their
failure to win medals. While on the other side, I think, the concerned authorities should
think of evolving a more scientific way of umpiring that would be objective. Another thing
I would like to mention here about the SAF Games is that the players this time were
affected by a long and tiresome train journey. The government should have made better
arrangements for the players. If there was lack of fund, it should have cut down the
number of officials or even unpromising players. That would have been justified. Prajeet Maharjan Situation Ought to Improve The prevailing situation of human rights,
is very morose “Human Rights Situation: Grim Recollection” (SPOTLIGHT April 16).
It is very distressing to see innocent people enduring hardships to earn their bread and
butter, being victimized and brutally killed in many cases by the so called protectors of
the people. Both the Maoists and the armed forces claim to be working for the security of
general public. But they do not seem to be protecting anybody else than they themselves.
Instead, ironically, more and more people are being victimized by the same group, which
should have helped to curb such activities. People who have arms with them should put
themselves in the shoes of innocent people and think what would they feel if they had been
unjustly harassed. Imagine what they could do if they did not have arms with them. Rather
than misusing the power of arms, they ought to start thinking justly from the side of the
people. Saroj Simkhada More Recreation for Tourists Walking around Thamel one can see the
situation has come quite close to the situation about 5 years ago when the tourism
industry was much better (“Wider Avenue” SPOTLIGHT April 16). But talking to the
tourists what I can see is that not only the place for hanging out for tourists is too
small, they do not have enough activities and places to engage themselves. In such a
situation of deteriorating law and order, they are not easily ready to go trekking to
rural places, which would otherwise have lured them. Thus, to see better days in the
industry the entrepreneurs and the government should start making more recreational places
and develop more hangouts to lure the tourists. Sandhya Thapa |
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