Brain Damage !

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Recently, a drama show of “Matha Panchar” written and directed by Rajan Khatiwada came to an end in Mandala Theater. Praised and appreciated by many, the drama reflected some of the major concerns of our society. It is a story of a poor village boy who wants to become a government school teacher. He walks in for the interview, stands out as the most qualified one and becomes simply rejected because another authority sends a different teacher for the school he applied. With a sick mother in his home to take care of and constant threats by the local thugs, he finds no other alternate for livelihood than to go for one of the Arabian countries for employment. Who never lost hope even in the darkest days of his life, Bijaya the village boy, returns dead in a dark coffin. And, this is how the drams ends leaving audience with tears and melancholy. 

Well, that is not just the whole story. The circumstances that forces Bijaya to walk out of his country are even more tragic. Remnants of the decade-long  conflict have taken the form of local thugs who are now flourishing in every corner of sub-urban cities and villages. If you think it’s hard to find one; think of the syndicate holders,  karyakartas, dons of terai, smuggling tycoons heard now and then in the Radio and many others disguised behind the impressive luga they wear.

Should I even talk about corruption?
Corruption is the new-born culture of the country. No wonder the legacy is directly from the natawad-kripabad parents of the bharstachar. Corruption is the ignored tumor of the country. I don’t deny of having some corrupt hormones. What if a five hundred rupee note gets our work done easily without the ‘uff’ bureaucratic hurdles, what if our driver license is saved for few hundreds, what if we could bring some extra materials of office to home, what if ? This is not corruption, is it? We have grown to accept and adapt to it ;) Nothing is corruption unless we hear about millions of rupees so that we can hoax: bhrastachariko mukh ma gutpak paros.

Hare Unemployment ! I don’t know what is the core problem or what is the right solution or what should government or any other stakeholders do about it but like any other samanya Nepali, I know for sure, there is huge unemployment in the country. There are hundreds of Bijaya in the country who lost, are loosing and probably will keep loosing their victory of life struggling for their family far away from their home.

Electricity, water, roads, mobile network, health faciltiy, mushrooming NGOs, government education; even thinking about all these leaves me in Sochda sochdai brain Damage bhaeko awastha ! So, I leave rest of the issues for our academicians, politicians and NGOians.

And, extremely sorry about the drama thing, I actually intended to write about it but I swear sochda sochdai brain damage bhaeko awastha ..........

From an Alchi Nepali