A nation left to the mercy of the Almighty

Nepal as a nation-state has been totally left to the mercy of the Almighty. The leaders are full of violent activities in the streets. The King is continuing with his consultations and been inviting personalities from various sectors of Nepali life in order to arrive at solutions to the political mess that have gripped the nation of late. So far the meetings have not yielded results that could be said a positive one. The partisan civil society has become edgy and been pushing its own partisan memo in bringing out the country from the muddle. The excessively "devotee" media has its own political drums to beat. The laymen read the non-partisan and the rejected ones continue to enjoy the endless drama staged by a variety of political actors since long but intensified of late. The international community presumably is surprised to be residing in a nation wherein the existence of a government lacks since all along fourteen days but yet the nation is moving. The gross disregard of the nation by the men who count is a disturbing phenomenon indeed. Where the nation is to land tomorrow no body know except the Almighty.

In the process, the men left in the cold and those who never meant much either to the political parties or for that matter to those who claim that they stood for the people.

The fact is that no body is serious about Nepal and her people. It is the people who themselves have been taking proper care of themselves to the extent they can. The rest only the Almighty is the savior.

No drinking water available to the Kathmanduites since long. No transport vehicles in the valley and beyond. Bundhs and only bundhs. Blockades and blockades only. Strikes and demonstrations and burning of tires have all become the trademark of today’s Nepali society. And all in the name of the people. We wonder how the leaders and the insurgents claim that they have been doing all for a better Nepal and the Nepalese by pushing them to the abyss of hunger and poverty and haplessness. A wage earner is denied his freedom to work and earn two meals a day because of the Maoists or for that matter the political parties’ sponsored bundhs and chakkajams.. The urban and the rural people are forced to witness a bundh in series, which is hitting them, pretty hard. A pregnant woman dies for want of Ambulance. Supply of even live saving medicines are blocked en route to its destination. Farmers are forced to throw their produce due to the imposition of blockades as recently came into light in Chitwan.

Add to this, a woman, Sibo Devi of Mahottari district concluded that it would be better to die together with her three year old baby-girl than to face an endless chain of poverty and want for a period whose end was not in sight. The tragedy did not end here. Sibo Debi while committing suicide was heavy with child. Her husband unfortunately was in India. Thus three precious "sovereign" lives ended and the Nepali leaders now residing in Ratnapark did not notice this sad event and opted not to utter a single word of consolation to this horrifying episode. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Information of such unfortunate events are either blocked deliberately by our honorable partisan media or even misinterpreted as if the disclosure of such news might affect the "democratic system" in a negative manner at this crucial juncture.

The leaders are to be blamed. With due respect and honor, the King too can’t escape the blame, as he is the ultimate guardian of the nation who should have done some thing to arrest such situations. The King must see now beyond Kathmandu. The civil society is to be blamed, as it is this society, which has gone astray and become exceptionally political. The lay men, the rejected and the neglected ones are to be blamed for their own coward acts that has all along been taken by the powers-that-be in Kathmandu as a silent-majority that is deaf and dumb. In effect it was time that they came to the streets to signal the men handling the system that enough had been enough.

A bleeding nation that demanded immediate surgical operation if it were to exist. The million-dollar question is who will operate and throw out the malignant cells?

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