Is it lust for collecting wealth or excessive ambition that…..

Men of letters have already concluded that there is every time a woman behind the well being and the prosperity of a man. Women by virtue of theirs being women possess tender hearts and always prompt their counterparts to accomplish jobs that could later give one name and fame. Great men of this contemporary world have frankly admitted that the inspirations from some women at one time or the other did encourage them to work for the betterment of the society and hence bag accolades from the society they belonged to for their outstanding jobs.

Not necessarily that it should be every time one's better half to encourage some men. The lady could be any one even not of acquaintance. Some get inspiration from Madame Curie. Some get from Rosa Luxembourg. And the overly blown acts of Monica Lewinsky even might encourage some. It depends upon one's taste.

However, in today's Nepal, the situation apparently is different. Here contrary to the world events, the women folks get inspiration from their men in the family. Religion perhaps restricts them to get inspired from men from other religions. Even if they do so perhaps they will prefer not to utter about this secret to her nearest and dearest relative for obvious reasons. Our women folks in essence some times get so much encouraged by their family members in higher political posts that they forget that the posts which should have been used for the benefit of the nation and instead use for their private ends. Scores of instances could be collected of some non-political women in Nepal suddenly becoming excessively political under the aura of their men in government. The Himalayan tragedy has been that the society too begins considering her as a personality who could not be dismissed outrightly. At times the political women (in essence she is not) serve as a link in between the third party and her man in the higher political echelons. The interesting part is that as and when a political man is approached by the third party using the good offices of his female folk, the poor political man yields. It is this yielding process that always goes against the national interests.

Several Nepali women have in the past amassed wealth for their private ends by using the name and fame of their family members who enjoy seats in the government or for that matter in the bureaucracy.

Behind most of the cases of corruption in Nepal committed by a bureaucrat or for that matter the minister(s), it is his family members back in home who prompt him to accomplish acts of corruption. It is the women folks whose penetrating eyes penetrate into the wealth of their immediate neighbors, which apparently annoy them to the hilt. Finally it is these women who perhaps envy the neighbors' well being and press their men in government to compete with the neighbor come what may. In the process, the poor fellow in government lands in custody. However, the higher officer or say the minister who grabs the net higher percentage of the illegal earning remains unscathed. The poverty stricken or the excessively ambitious lady then comes to her senses.

Perhaps, in summary, it is either the lust for collecting astronomical amount of wealth sufficient for generations and generations to come or the competition in and among the society members for attaining a new height and bag honor and respect from the same society forces men and specially women folks to indulge in acts of corruption.

However, there is a saying in Nepal: Ill got, ill spent.

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