A bleeding nation

The nation has become an orphan. The credit goes to all and sundry: the political leaders, the academicians, the media and the members of the civil society.

Why all these political creatures are hell bent on pushing the nation into a precipice is what needs to be investigated and debated over by the presumed "impotent" academicians, the civil society, the overly politicized and corrupt media and the ever dumb-like population of the country.

Shame on the Nepali academicians and the civil society members that they have been watching the present sorry state of affairs but prefer not to utter a word. What inexplicable fear makes them remain a dumb spectator? Shame on us all.

Shame on the media that is no more than a lap dog. This applies to the members of the civil society and the academicians as well. For example, it is really very hard to find a single academician who is bereft of any political color. Congress or for that matter the Communist academicians are in abundance. This set, as is expected, would prefer to interpret the existing politics in their own manner that would definitely differ from the other set. The third set of academician would either toe a line that is totally different than the two previous lines acquired by or would prefer to declare himself neutral academician which in political lexicon is a rare commodity. So is the civil society divided on countless lines serving their political patrons. In the process, the academicians and the members of the civil society take up the issues in an entirely different manner.

The highly biased media, better call them the mouthpieces of a particular political party which provides them with bread and butter, then blows the matter out of proportion that suits to its masters sitting in a dark corner from where the strings control the pen of the media. Add to this the very prevalence of Monarchist academicians. Naturally this set would eulogize whatever the monarch does.

The result is that the dumb population gets confused and is forced compulsorily to gulp the distorted versions and act accordingly. For each event, we have varied explanations pushed for public consumption by the academicians and later publicized by the corrupt media providing the said event a new twist apparently to please the organization that helps it sustain its very existence. Shame on us all. Lost in the process is the nation and its very core interests.

The nation is burning. The nation is bleeding. The nation has become directionless. The nation has become leaderless. An utter chaos has plagued the nation. The national economy is approaching a total collapse. The nation is being squeezed from all those who wish to fish in the Nepal’s troubled waters. Add to this the Nepali insurgency which is siphoning the money supposedly allocated for national development purposes to enhance the security system presumably to contain the threat posed by the insurgents who by all means were the sons of the same soil. In the process, thousands of Nepali souls have sacrificed their precious lives from both the sides. Why a Nepali is fighting with the the other Nepali is what we have failed to understand.

Amidst such frightening scenario, Nepali leaders have become narcissists. The King, the real guardian of the nation-state, too appears in a mood not to budge. The lethargic civil society, the corrupt media and the highly political academia are all watching the national drama being staged by the major actors since long. And this they are doing at their own peril.

The country will surely collapse. No force on earth could save it from the approaching collapse. Miracles could save the country. However, unfortunately, miracles are found only in storybooks.

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