Almighty is the savior

A schoolboy at eleven dies while being at the toilet in his school. The parents have lost their bread earner and a caretaker in their approaching old days. A policeman while coming to his office from his residence is shot. One security guard at the entrance of a bank is first shot dead and his arms are looted. One communication man while at work is shot in the early morning. The father of this wretched one has to perform his own son’s last rituals and faints while performing the same. Some rebels while meeting in one remote mountainous area are reportedly shot dead summarily. The simple and the modest rural mass appear panicked when two way firing erupts in the marketplace between the Maoists and the national security forces.

Similarly, some one’s family is told to quit the village and that too within twenty four hours. The entire family vanishes from the village out of fear of being attacked. Scores of such events that have happened of late in the country does amply suggest that Nepal, once a Shangrila, has become different.

Today’s Nepal symbolizes, chaos, hatred, firings and killings, abduction, extortion and bombings. Add to this the political turmoil created by our own leaders.

Panic abounds in the rural and the urban areas as well. People appear not safe in their private residences. If the people face the threat of the rebels, then the threat from the security forces also remains there. This means that the lay men have become the target of both the forces.

Concern is there among the population on how to observe the approaching festivals. Those who have to travel from one place to the other in order to attend the festivals in their own homes in villages and towns appear trembling with fear from the possible wrath of the rebels and the nation’s security forces on their way back to their villages. Add to this the havoc created by the monsoon this year that has left practically all the roads leading to and out of Kathmandu completely battered. Instances of serous road accidents have become a common feature this time.

The nature too this time has gone against the population. IN fact, there is none to come to the rescue of the lay men not even the King.

The Maoists target the population. They say that they have been targeting the informers.. The security forces target the rebels and at time of skirmishes, it is again the lay men who are hit.  The political forces in the name of the people are cheating the people and that too with full force. The King too appears not interested in easing the burgeoning problems of the countrymen or else he would have devised mechanisms to bring out the country from the existing chaos and fear-like situation.

This explains perhaps every thing.

O! Ye Nepali population! Pray Lord Pashupatinath.

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