Nepal: Shame! Shame! Shame!

When a toddler plays with his smaller friends being naked unknowingly, people take it easy. When the child is a grown up one, he himself concludes that if he played being unclothed with his inmates, he would instantly be criticized. Thus the child when comes of age, he never dares to established values and the norms of the society wherein he lives.

However, what if a matured citizen roams in town naked or even half nude? People who watch him roaming over the road instantly dub the naked person as a lunatic or having gone senile.

Further, what if a political leader of national standing creates a scene much similar to that of the child? People might dub him in such an eventuality a mad person of the highest order and boycott him from the society wherein he loiters.

To come to the point, our attention has been drawn towards a small piece of news printed by a newly established daily dated July 1st which authentically writes about how the Indian security men in close collaboration with the Indian citizens living in the area of across the border have been intruding deep inside the Nepali territories in Triveni VDC-Nawalparasi district.

Though such phenomenon is not a new one for the Nepali media men who have been highlighting such issues hoping against hope that their government in Katmandu would take up the matter with the Indian authorities and regain the lost land by the Indians. What is more surprising and intriguing of it all is that on such sensitive and delicate issues that are directly associated with Nepal’s territorial integrity and national independence, is the stoic silence being kept by the mainstream national media who more often than not claim that they comprise the State. The mode of silence acquired by the so-called mainstream media does force the lay men to suspect even their nationalistic credentials.

However, the fact is that the mainstream media have all along been ignoring the issues of such national importance and significance for some understandable and on the contrary some unexplainable political reasons.

Question thus becomes pertinent as to which factors basically restrict the Nepali media and the men associated with it in disseminating such brazen intrusion by the Indians into Nepali lands and loot the crops and escape back to their “motherland”? Have we the Nepalese, more so those who have been involved in this sector have become defunct or impotent? Or have we been seduced by some extraneous forces and told to keep quiet? This is a puzzle that we have failed to understand so far.

The Loktantrik leaders quite frequently visit Delhi for a pilgrimage, uninvited at times. However, we have so far not heard that our so called “Indo-pendent” politicians have made any sort of complain to their virtual political masters in Delhi that India must henceforth come to its senses and treat Nepal as a fully sovereign and independent nation. Shame on our leaders that they miss the opportunity in telling the sorry tale of the Nepali lands being grabbed, pillars shifted deep inside Nepal and the likes, as and when they meet their mentors there.

Now a word for the Nepal Army as well. This should apply to other security agencies as well. Well, we have just the other day listened to what the CoAS Katuwal said while providing instructions to his junior level army men that his institution would not compromise any challenge to Nepal’s territorial integrity and independence. So where is the Army? So what the Army, upon whom we all the Nepalese repose trust and honor, is doing even if the military institution perhaps knows about such unwanted and unwarranted intrusions and land encroachment issues? It is presumed that the Nepal Army knows every thing but why it is silent on such sensitive issues? Only making eloquent speeches would do little. It is time that the Nepal Army becomes pretty sensitive issue and safeguards Nepal’s territorial integrity or else we would be forced to presume that the Army too has been toeing the pattern as exhibited so disgustingly by Nepal’s ruling elites today.

The last hope is the Army. If this institution acquires silence, Nepal as a nation-state would instantly cease to exist. We will not be in the world map. The message should be loud and clear.

It is time that all the stakeholders must rise up to the occasion considering that the nation-state has been subjected to unprecedented mental torture by the big “largest democracy” to which it is not. Instead, we can call the intruder as the largest invader. This would be appropriate.

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