LETTER TO THE EDITOR The Telegraph

LETTER

Dear Narendra Jee

Namaste!

Thank you for the column " R..R..R.. TTTT and V...V..V ... TTTT on the The Telegraph( 8.8.2001).
Please find following comments on the issues of my interest.

1. I admire for your presentation on that peculiar article. You have placed all the events with truths and false in gentlemanship way. I take this opportunity to praise once more you for proving as a mature
jouranalist not only an expert in media.

2. The "God Governance is The Third Pillar of ADBs( not ADBs but ADB's) Poverty Reduction Strategy" is very much analytical and useful to the readers concerned to paverty alleviation programme. I would like to request you to provide more places for such hot issue. I have a suggestion for the author is that considering the awkward situation of the mountain range like Nepal, kindly make prescription for poverty alleviation for worst developing countries. For instance you could take example of the stories of the book unfortunately I am the author Poverty and Rural Development in Nepal.

3. As usual you have presented a good composition of intellectuals of TU, but unfortunately unusual the statements of all the academicians are not relevant and out of danger for the nation. For example, on page 4, Prof. Anand Shrestha, Yubraj Koirala, Rabindra Khanal and Shrish Rana are very much sincere to their views and the soil where they borne. But unfortunately, despite being doctorate in his discipline, I don't know what it is, I have to say Dr. Bhattachan seems out of the objective of given topic. I wonder why he feels himself a superman for suggesting such irrelevant answer and outdated remedy for the Nepalese society. I worried that he didn't have sufficient information on Himalayan culture and the old practices of Nepalese people. If he would have studied the Nepalese history ( Nepalese and British)properly, he might not express such blunder. There was no Nepal before 233 years, only Nepal valley or Nepal Khaldo. Thanks to Shah,a real dynesty Prithivi Narayan Shah who was nationalist and extremist of soil. I don't claim myself an academician, but claim strongly that nobody can be a strong sayer if he/she does not have experience of having suffecient knowlege and observations of the countries of different social combination. I suggest people of this nature to visit Combodia, Vietnam , eastern Thailand, Indonesia, Europe and America and make conclusions on ethnicity, poverty, supression, oppression, depression, compression, domination, exploitation and marginalisation. Read the books on poverty written in Rusian society. Read the book on Crime & Punishment as written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Forget about caste and racism.

All are equel but not in propaganda. Read about the comment of Farrukh Dhondy on Naipaaul( not Nepal). Read about CLR James and lot of. Please don't make cheap statement in English, it will damage your so-called degree and dignity and knowledge of Nepalese scholars. I politely request you to read books in Sanskrit or English. Don't make up mind on the basis of only Nepalese and Indian books and people with your sorrounding and same culture.

4. Last but not least, I admire you the Chief Editor to continue your debate on development of the people of this confused country with false conception.

5. Out of the context, Nepalese magazines and newspapers are making confusions unnoticingly on tourism sector provoking crime news, which is not true. Your paper and other few are exception. Please discourage such suicidal articles and news.

With best regards.
K B Kunwar (via email)