Corrupt society; corrupt media men

A news that has come into the open must have ashamed all the media men of the country. It is a news about a media person who in the guise of journalism was found engaged in acts that out and out is rejected by the ethics of the profession called journalism. It is a news which better late than never exposes as to how media men in Nepal act at the instigation of some unlawful elements, or even do it on their own, simply to amass wealth and that too very quickly. Thanks the corrupt politics of the nation that a sector which at least remained far from criminal activities has now started toeing the line of what the criminals any where in the world do to gain personal benefits and that too monetary ones. In effect what could be expected from a nation that has politicians like Koirala and Nepal on one extreme and Khadka and Gachhedar on the other. If the first two represent destabilization then the rest two certainly denote the harbingers of criminalisation in Nepali politics. Let’s not mention the acts of omission and commission committed by ex-minister Wagley who suddenly changed himself from a chilly selling man to a personality who is the master of some one and a half dozen of posh buildings in Kathmandu. The time span is not more than a decade for accomplishing this adventure. Interestingly, most of the men now housed in Deuba congress were in the black list of the anti-corruption authority—the CIAA. Perhaps this should explain the "democratic credentials" of the Deuba congress, speaking politely.

Media men reflect the picture of the society. When the society in itself is a tainted one, thanks to the determined efforts of our present day corrupt leaders, then definitely its impact on the men reflecting the mood and the tradition of the society will be felt. A society made negative by the "Heroes and the Builders" of the Himalayan height democratic Nepal can only produce media men of the sorts of the one who was red-handed apprehended the other day by the Nepali Police at the Tribhuban Airport-Domestic section- carrying in a black suitcase a colossal amount of contraband Indian rupees which the media hero was supposed to hand it over to a close friend in Simra—a small town close to Birganj. The justification our media hero provided to the Policemen at time of his being nabbed is simply illogical for any sane person of the sort of the one arrested the other day can’t save himself from the laws of the land by saying that he did not know what the suitcase had in effect inside. Sheer lie indeed. The media man committed yet another blunder: he point blank misused the Press-Card which he was in possession to threaten the Policemen which he should have not. The other mistake he committed was that he wished to bribe the policemen that if he be given the suitcase back, he would reawrd them with some five lacks of rupees.

The media man at time of writing is in police custody. The Federation of the Nepalese Journalists, FNJ, has condemned the act of the said media personality and ahs demanded that a sort of thorough probe be initiated that uncovered the men involved in the network of which the said media man was a mere porter presumably?

As you sow, so will you reap!

Stringent penal actions against rapists needed

A girl at 10 is continuously raped for no less than two years. The rapist is no less than the house owner itself. The girl thus being raped understandably comes from a poverty-stricken family in the Terai plains. The girl bears the pain or is forced to remain silent for fear of being stabbed by the rapist all along those two terrible years. The small kid who doesn’t understand the nitty-gritty’s of sex or the girl who hasn’t come of age to understand sex or the matters related to it finally speaks her mind to her family members. The house owner is thus arrested and is now in the police custody. Thanks that some NGOs working in Biratnagar take up the issue and the culprit is nabbed. Shame on ye! You the rapist.

The rapist unfortunately is a Nepal Rastra Bank official in Biratnagar. What else could be said of this particular beast-like animal that definitely deserves the ultimate penal action by the law enforcement agencies of the land. The authorities must take this abnormal case seriously so that others who are indulged in such heinous crime against humanity take a lesson and refrain from doing such acts.

Here is yet another hair-raising episode. If private homes were not safe for girls of the sort mentioned just in the paragraphs above, destitute small female kids were not safe either even in the so-called girl protection centers. A case that was recently brought to the open stated that a girl not in her teen even was molested and raped for all along one and a half years by the men who worked at the protection centres. When it was enough, the victim divulged her mental agonies to some of her family members and thus the story came to light.

Small girls are not safe in private homes: the house owner and possibly his young son have been eyeing at the girl with ill intent; the girl is not safe even at the protection centres; the girl is not secured even in and around her own parent’s house, some one in the neighborhood is eyeing her. Now the question arises as to where she should go?

Unless stringent penal actions were not taken against such criminals, Nepali girls will continue to reel under such conditions.

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