-With malice to none-
The tale of a minister who chased a staff-nurse some twenty years ago!

If nothing succeeds success, as per the popular saying, then I say nothing exceeds jokes. While success and jokes, comparatively speaking, have no parallels to each other. However, what is absurd for others could be a simple thing for us. Since 1950, we have had conducted several fair and foul experiments in the country. Since the nation as such, frankly speaking, do not comment or at least I have not heard them commenting, and hence this beleaguered nation had to endure all sorts of experiences, good or bad even. What I mean by experiments perhaps my qualified readers know.

This poor nation, to recall, had to endure (mis) conducts of ministers like Mr. X who under drunken spell dared almost to rape a "staff nurse" at the Bir Hospital some twenty years or so. Since then the minister became popular as "'Nurse Minister". It is altogether a different matter that in this changed system he occupies a prestigious seat in one of Nepal's political party. Keep on guessing!

There had yet been another minister who once pushed a Nepali journalist in the cage meant for pigs for quite good number of hours. The fault of the journo was that he differed with the ministerial comments on some counts. Some even said that the media man asked for some financial support from the DADA minister.

Then came the new system. During the interim year, one minister after concluding his Delhi trip bluntly said that with the regaining of the Status Quo Ante with India, things would be cheaper by 35 percent. However, the minister be-fooled the population. Commodity prices went up in the opposite order. The population concluded that only a foolish person could fool others or would dare to do so. Later we saw the "grand reduction sale" of our lawmakers. That followed our lawmakers enjoying massage parlors in Bangkok and that too enjoying state exchequer. By this time, the Pajero/Prado culture had already entered through the kind courtesy of then Premier Deuba. The rag bag bobby tail of the not so distant past could change their life-styles in no time. Thanks the democratic system that it possesses some loop-holes that encourages some to become corrupt and yet remain unscathed. Later came the season of jumping the walls by the ministers. In the process, several communist leaders erected their posh buildings. Poor guys were in jungles and hence wished for such luxuries. One firebrand communist "ideologue" brought one neck-tie for himself in some London shops whose NC value apparently came about 5,000 rupees. People talked that this minister no longer remained a communist. However, he is yet a communist.

These events followed Lauda and China South West scandals. Who were the real "men" behind these scams perhaps all know. However, the fact is that the two poor "'NEWARS" have only recently been come out of the most infamous NAKKHHU in Lalitpur. And the clever NC man, T.D.Chataut-the great-the most wanted person, is still at large defying even the court orders. Question is not who is behind Chataut, however, the question is how long this system will endure such law-challengers? Only the Almighty knows.

Finally I wish to wind up today's write up with a joke that had been talk of the town during the Japanese Prime Minister Mori's last Nepal visit.

The Japanese prime minister looking at the sorry state of Nepal politely requested Prime Minister Koirala to hand over Nepal to Japan under lease arrangement for ten years. Mori assured Koirala that he would turn Nepal into Japan well within ten years. Mori's request was perhaps a genuine one.

Some how or the other Koirala did not like Mori's idea. But instead out of anger Koirala reportedly told Mori to hand over his country to Nepal for two years. Understandably, Koirala's utterances surprised Premier Mori.

"Well Mr. Prime Minister! You will take a decade to turn my country into Japan. What I guarantee you is that I can turn your country very much alike Nepal well within two years or not even that", Koirala concluded.

The joke is over. However, the meaning underneath this joke is definitely significant.

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