Wednesday, September 7, 2005

We are with you Mr. Padma Jyoti!

NP Upadhyaya

Perhaps we all know how much effort and energy one has to invest in the construction of a house. After the house is completed, one has then to take care of its management and well functioning. Here too lot of serious endeavor is needed. Then comes the maintenance of the house thus constructed in order to keep the house in order.

A house is not only a house for the one who constructs it. The family members who reside in the house too contribute to the maintenance of the said house. Thus a house is the home of several members of the family and all are attached to the house for it provides them with the required shelter in all seasons. This provides the attachment with the house.

Likewise, a factory is built after putting in efforts of a considerable size. The factory then is filled with workers who later earn out of the produce of the factory. In the process the factory thus becomes not only a home for the workers but a bread-earner as well.

Consider what would happen to those scores of souls who depend on the factory for maintaining two meals a day. Consider that one worker has dependents as well. What would happen to the dependents when the real bread earner's house collapses or is bombed for unknown reasons by some miscreants?

This is what has happened with the JYOTI SPINNING MILLS, located in Parwanipur, a small town on the way to Birganj.

Can one imagine what would have happened to the mental psychology of the personality whose decades of tireless and long effort brought the factory to existence and made it to run thus providing thousands of workers two meals a day.

It is no news to the miscreants who did it. This is no news to those who wanted the factory to collapse for a variety of political and economic reasons. This might not be a news at all for those who have benefited from the Jyoti Spinning mills being bombed.

However, the bombing of the said mills is news for all sensible persons who believe in non-violence for the bombing not only made the factory owner their target but also very pathetically made the workers who depend on the factory to earn their bread to conclude that when one goes senile any thing could happen any time.

He appears lost in the horizon. He is a bewildered person. In the core of his eyes one could see droplets of tears. One could see that he is motion and speechless. He appears in no mood to describe what the bombing meant to him. He is grieved and appears fairly pained on how to devise mechanisms so that his workers could forget the pains of the bombing and celebrate the approaching DASHAMI festivals-understandably the biggest and the most important festivals of the Nepalese.

He is the one who himself saw and witnessed the devastating bombing of his own factory some fortnight ago. He is Padma Jyoti, the owner of the factory. His mental agony could well be understood.

The Maoists by bombing have not only made one of Nepal's basic infrastructure to collapse but have also in a variety of ways supported alien forces who don't wish Nepal's economic stability and progress.

Knowingly or unknowingly the rebels, albeit the sons of the same soil, have committed a Himalayan blunder.

Take it easy Mr. Jyoti! We are behind you all the time. Collect courage to rebuild it. God will provide you the needed courage and stamina.

-Write up based on what appeared in Dristi weekly dated September 6, 2005.—Upadhyaya.