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It so happened once that the Trinity, Lord Bishnu, Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva meat each other over a cup of coffee at Lord Bishnu’s Palace build on the Ocean.

Since they had no speacial topic to mull over, they decided to concentrate their debate on Nepal.

The talk that went in between the three runs like this:

Lord Bishnu: Well friends! I have been told that Nepal situation is not that very encouraging one at the moment. Some body told me that Koirala and Mr. Nepal are hell bent on pressing the King to yield to their demands. Is it the same that you two have also heard?

Lord Brahma: Yes Monsieur! What ever you have been told is perfectly true. However, with your due permission Sir, I wish to add that the agitating, I’m told, is for occupying a magical Chair only.

Lord Shiva: After all what is in this special Chair? Will some one tell me?

Lord Bishnu: I can tell you. Listen, it is this chair that creates havoc in the Himalayan Kingdom, the abode of Lord Shiva. Can you imagine that well within thirteen years, Nepali population have had to endure with thirteen odd governments. Moreover, it is this chair that brings all the relatives of the Prime Minister on the Chair closer to the Chair and they later behave as shadow prime ministers.

Lord Shiva: So what is new in this? Lord Indra too is always craving for the Chair in the heaven?

Lord Brahma: It is not like that. The Chair in Nepal has given birth to Lauda, China NorthWest, fertilizer, LC and so many other scams that have damaged the very name and fame of democratic system in that country.

Lord Bishnu: Tell me what is this Lauda and the rest you just talked about?

Lord Brahma: Well, Lauda is a scam that involved millions and millions of rupees which were pocketed by the ministers in the then cabinet under Koirala? It was an aircraft whose Wet-lease commission ran in millions.

Lord Shiva: So what? Let them enjoy! After all they are the ones who restored democracy in Nepal. They fought with the King and what the hell if they pocket some money for their kids. The kids of the ministers, blue blooded creatures indeed, must be sent to London and Washington and Delhi, Banglore, Beijing and the likes, for it is their parents who fought for democracy and in the process went to the jails.

Lord Brahma: But I prefer not to agree with Lord Shiva. Okay! You fought for democracy should not mean that you are licensed to squeeze the national exchequer? You did right job but then yet it should not mean that you can loot the state money for your personal ends. I disagree with the previous speaker as such episodes malign the very spirit of the system.

Lord Shiva: Is it so? I thought that whosoever till the land must sow the harvest. I must penalize them all.

Lord Bishnu: Are you all feeling some problems in your eyes? I am, for one, feeling some itching in the eyes. It is becoming red and red and I feel tears in my eyes.

Lord Brahma: Yes me too. My eyes are also in a tear-mood.

Lord Shiva: So is mine.

Lord Bishnu: Look, it’s a sort of vapor that is coming to my eyes that is forcing me to weep. It’s tears! Find out what is this vapor all about?

Lord Brahma: ( Brahma closes his eyes and tries to take stock of the happenings in the world). He then opens his eyes and says! O Ye Lord Bishnu! This vapor is nothing but what all call is "tear-gas". Once it is exploded, the smoke that it emits after explosion when comes into contact with someones’s eyes, it makes us to weep.

Lord Shiva: Arrest the men who developed such gas that forces one to weep without any special cause. None sense indeed.

Lord Bishnu: Now tell me when Nepal will develop? Though I know that Nepal currently under a very severe situation which demands, I think, the consensus in between the King , the political parties and the Maoists. But then yet tell me when she will attain a height?

Lord Brahma: You My Lord! Yourself can fathom the unfathomable. Let Lord Shiva tell this.

Lord Shiva: Not in my lifetime! Not in your lifetime. Not even in Lord Bishnu’s life time.