Worldly luxuries exclusively for the leaders, free Oxygen to the common men!

My country, our country has had to undergo through various traumatic experiences indeed in the past. The days were turbulent immediately after the 1950 when the country came out of the isolation period forcefully imposed by the then autocratic rulers-the Ranas. The politicos who assumed the state authorities after the Ranas too remained busy in colliding with each other and the entire process became chaotic. Then came the period of the Congress rule. It was said that the congress excesses went to the extent that if some people had to curse some one, he used to say that "let the congress enter your house". This provocative theory, might not be true as it has been blown , however, the men belonging to that period of the congress rule frankly admit that the congressmen then considered the whole Nepali territory as their landed property. Then came suddenly the King's rule in 1960s pushing the then "democratic government" to oblivion. Some characters in the congress leadership then, we are told, hailed the King's staging a coup de etat for obvious reasons. In essence, Nepal is lucky in having such characters who change their attire as and when such changes do occur. Thanks such personalities that the would-be system gets men to run the next set-up.

The Partyless Panchayat system ruled the nation mercilessly and that too under the active leadership of the monarch. The King, though benevolent one, got instantly encircled by men who thought of their personal benefits instead of the country's. The King in the process could not distinguish in between who were really his men possessing dedication for the country and the men who had entered into the system to meet their personal ends. In the process, the King too came into controversy. The then "champions of democracy" distributed Varanashi Laddoo" to the already disenchanted population and seduced them all stating that if the Panchayat system collapsed, their doomed fates will get instantly a facelift. The poor people in the hope of better took for granted the fiery and eloquent speeches and helped wholeheartedly the movement for restoration of democratic order in the country albeit replacing the old corrupt regime.

The regime changed. It crossed its nascent ages indeed. However, the fact is that the leaders who had problems in finding two meals a day have become multi-millionaire. The leaders' who offered sermons and apparently always gave the people the impression that if they came to power, the fate of the nation will change for the better and that too all at a go. They indeed came to power but not for the people rather for themselves. Even the rag-bag-bobby-tail revolutionary communists too in the process squeezed the nation's exchequer to the extent that each and every known communist possesses a Pajero/Prado and wealth to the tune of crores. Unfortunate are those communists who still read the Manifesto and tell the people that a day will come when all will be equal. In my opinion, gone are the days of the people. The people will have to live with pseudo communists and congressmen. The nation is forced to bear with this is democratic experience. If some one talks against the present system, he or she is immediately branded as bla!bla!bla!

Unless, some one very powerful constitutes a very powerful state-organ that initiates checking thoroughly as to who was what prior to the 1990s, the nation will have to endure the sermons of those who in essence have lost their credibility in the past twelve years of this fresh experience.

The Maoists too wish to introduce yet another kind of experiment in the country. However, as things stand today, materializing their concept in Kathmandu will rather be difficult indeed. For the lay men, any one in the country is free to experiment systems of his or her preference. All that people need is the availability of Oxygen. And it is this Oxygen which perhaps even the Maoists can't take away from the atmosphere even if they come to power. For the common men, inhaling the Oxygen will be no less an achievement. The rest worldly luxuries is predestined for today's democrats. A fair distribution system indeed. What has been lotted, can't be blotted.

A very intimate friend of mine tells me that if you want to corrupt a very powerful man possessing high morale character, give him a chair and look the results! He is correct perhaps. We have examples galore here.

The net result of my finding is that no one in the leadership wishes to share the problems of the poor. No one prefers to work for the common men. Albeit lectures and sermons are for the common men.

While writing all these, I'm reminded of a short jocular story which I heard in my school days. The story is just to refresh you all.

There lived a very innocent boy in a village. He was less educated. God was unkind to this boy indeed. It so happened that his father died of some unknown disease. The older generation from the village came to the boy and assured him not to take the death of his father seriously. They all told him that they were all like his father. So he will not miss the sad and the sudden demise of his father.

Next year, unfortunately, his mother died. The ladies in the fifties came to console the boy. They all told him that they were all like his mothers and in effect bestowed their affection onto the boy. The kind-innocent soul forgot the absence of his own mother.

Yet another tragedy befell upon the boy. His wife died.

To the boy's utter confusion and dismay, no body came to console him. The boy was expecting that a good number of ladies from the village will come to see him and would tell that he can think them as his own wife. The poor boy was expecting the female-folks of the village to come to console him much the same way others did on previous occasions. However, this was not to happen because of understandable societal reasons.

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