Which one is closer of the two: the moon or the United States of America?

Where it event happened no body knows. Whether the answer provided by one particular student to a question posed to him by his class-teacher was prompted by his sheer ignorance or intelligence is very difficult to ascertain. However, similar questions of that very nature could now be asked to our politicians, leaders, ministers and prime ministers and the high place authorities in government with the institutionalization of a Royal Judicial Commission. This commission has been told to compile the "illustrious" good-names who have contributed in degrading the prestige and popularity of Nepal's democratic system. What "heart-penetrating" and spine chilling questions should be posed now to these lots, however, we wish to tell our readers a few minutes later.

The story begins like this:;

It was a geography class in a higher secondary level school located in western zone of this country. All of a sudden the geography teacher becomes serious and wishes to ascertain the aptitude of his students and forwards a peculiar question to his students whom were all in their teens.

The question posed by the teacher to his students was "Which one was closer; the moon or the United States of America"?

The floor was then open. The teacher invited all the students to exhibit their personal talents. Most of the students, some serious ones as well, began thinking as to what could be the befitting answer to the teacher's noble questions.

Later, minutes passed but then the answer was not forthcoming. But then the teacher was confident enough that he knew the correct answers to his own questions.

When none dared to take the risk, one all-time jolly student with average performance wished to keep the prestige of his teacher intact by providing the right answer to the teacher's somewhat awkward question.

Student: Sir! I conclude that of the two, the Moon was closer!

Teacher: Sure!

Student: Hundred percent indeed!

Teacher got nervous for quite some good minutes listening to the blunt answers of the jolly student. However, the teacher came to his senses and retorted back as to what made him to conclude that?

Teacher: How you could conclude that the Moon was closer to us?

Student: It is very simple sir! I have seen the moon from my roof several times but not America. This means that the moon must be closer to us all.

With this surprising answer, the teacher himself became dumbfound. The answer was bit different and puzzling as well but then the logic provided by the student was equally powerful which apparently forced the teacher himself to evaluate his own talent with that of the boy in teens.

Now the jocular part of the story is over. The question now remains to be asked to the nation's supposedly corrupt prime ministers, ministers, politicians, general managers, chairmen of various corporations and the high-placed bureaucrats in government who amassed wealth by being in power during these twelve years of the new system is, "how far from you all is the prison"?

The prison should be very close for the ascertained and declared corrupts but then the Judicial Commission has not been accorded mandate to initiate penal actions on their own. The Commission at best will compile the list of the corrupts and would submit the report for the perusal of the government. And the men in the government will throw the report in the dust-bin for understandable reasons. No soul in the government would wish to make it a precedence for fear of being penalized by another set of government.

This would finally mean that the fate of the new Royal Judicial Commission would be similar to the Mullick Commission formed immediately after the collapse of the erstwhile regime some twelve years ago.

Poor Nepali people will be given yet another dose of yet another high level Commission to evaluate the findings of the previous Commissions formed in the past.

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