How a father effects 'political partition' for his sons

Nepalese society must remain indebted to some literary figures who through their painstaking efforts have enriched the Nepali literature. The men in our society must remain indebted to those who have contributed their mite in propagating and expressing the richness that existed and perhaps still exist in the domain of Nepali literature through their writings. We must be proud of some of our top class litterateurs whose flow of the pen, be it in the poetry or prose literature, could compete any personality in the world. However, the fact is that we the Nepalese have formed a habit of degrading our own men who day in day out remain engaged in beautifying the Nepali literature. In essence, we the Nepalese treat the men in literature domain with a little bit of hatred. The fact is that in doing so we are commiting a heinous crime.

A nation is considered to be rich not by her wealth rather by the men who enrich the society through their marvelous writings. Dead is the nation, which cares little about the prosperity of their own men, engaged in literature.

Nepalese living in alien lands too have added to the beauty of the Nepali literature indeed. Their contributions can't be dismissed simply because they belong to alien lands.

I came across a fantastic story last week penned by Lil Bahadur Chhetri who I'm told lives in Assam, India. The book is a compilation of several short stories penned by the author. Royal Nepal Academy has published the book.

The story is slightly different in the sense that the story deals with a sort of funny proposition of an aging guardian who wished to award his sons their share in the lands at time of the partition. There has been a slight change made in the story to entertain the readers. However, the gist of the story remains the same. I apologize for the minor change effected in the author's story.

One old man summons his four sons one fine evening. The obedient sons submit themselves in his front. The old man says, Look! Dear sons, since I've become pretty old hence I have decided to give the share of the land to you all in a fair and equitable manner.

As good sons of the old man, the sons obeyed the orders of their father and accepted their share in the land due to them.

However, one thing troubled them all after the partition of the land wealth.

The father sensed that some thing was there which was troubling his sons. He then says to his sons,Look, if you have any problem tell me in a frank manner. I will try to solve that.

The eldest son says: Look father, we are happy that you have been kind enough to give our share of the land. However, the problem is that we four brothers would feel more than pleased if you could decide our "political partition" as well given the present political spectrum in the country.

Father : Very nice proposal indeed. Any way I will solve this out in minutes.

This assurance pleases the sons and they now wait for their father's decision.

Father: Look! Since you, my dear eldest son, were apparently close to today's ruling clique so it would be advisable for you to continue in this party for it might save your other brothers should some drastic decision befall on you all.

Pointing out to his second son the father says that since "I have noticed that you prefer RED so I order you to join the RED party". You all know perhaps that the RED is already the main opposition which means that it is the "government in waiting". Go ahead with the RED party. If they come to power, you will save your brothers for declared reasons.

Next, the father points out to his third son. The father says, look my dear son, it would be advisable for you to join the "Rastriya Party" which now claims to be a democratic one. In essence they were in the past most undemocratic one. That they were the third force in the country at the moment so I hereby order you to join this party. If by chance this party comes to power, you will have to save your brothers from your party's wrath if any. The third son found it logical and nodded his head.

Came the turn of the fourth. The youngest son was little bit of "revolutionary nature" and talked every time of establishing of republicanism. The father considering the inclination of the youngest son said: "Look my dear, your choice is not that bad. Republicanism might dawn in the nation time permitting. It would be really desirable that you join this camp in order to save your brothers from the any would be eventualities from your new camp.

The father's decision became final and the sons readily accepted. In the process they congratulated each other as well. However, the eldest son had some more doubts in his mind.

Eldest son: We all thank you dad for your intelligent decision. Still, I have one doubt in my mind.

Father: What is that my dear!

Eldest son: What would happen to us all father if by "chance" the former system dawns again in the nation?

Father: Very intelligent problem indeed.

Other brothers too subscribe to their father's views. Father becomes pretty grave indeed for couple of minutes. Finally a faint smile dawns in father's face. He finally said: Look piece of my hearts! Your remarks are genuine. I got your point. So what I have decided is that "to make you my dear sons safe, I will join that party which if gets reinstalled, I will take care of all of your problems. Nothing to panic. Now we all have a political party's backing.

Thus ended the land's partition together with political partition indeed.

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