 Welcome to NEW NEPAL! To make new Nepal there should be many new things and new styles of doing things, different than rest of the world. There are so many cynics around who are portraying Nepal as a failing state. But I feel that Nepal is a successful and a brand new state by now and there are reasons.
People complain about insecurity and inadequacies plaguing Nepal–worsening food security, rising ethnic tensions, unabated crimes, and lackadaisical law enforcement. But all these are exaggerated myth. In fact, Nepal is easily running even without king's grace or even without the grace of Lord Pashupatinath as the Lord is busy closing his donation accounts for fiscal year 2063/64. Is it not an achievement?
In doing things differently, our bureaucrats and the past and present governments have made electricity, fuel and water the cheapest but the rarest commodities in our land. Elsewhere these are available as much as needed though at a higher price.
While half of the population still lives without electricity, why should the other half bask on the luxury of the light? This is what the socialism of the Nepali Congress means and this is what the communism of the Maoists means. Similarly, people have the habit of whining about the scarcity of water across the country. But why do you forget that the Maoist Minister Yami is working hard to bring the Melamchi water project back in the newspaper pages though its coming to the water taps at your residence seems like the waiting for the Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett’s Godot. For that she has made sure that Melamchi is totally defunct now. Also don't forget that Yami too wants to do things differently. She wants it to start afresh.
Well, about fuel scarcity! Where else in the world will people have this opportunity to enjoy the scene of long queues for fuel? In fact, this can be made a new tourism product in the country (was not a minister from a Gulf country exclaiming in surprise to see such queues recently?) and concerned authorities should start selling this package abroad. Nepal tourism is sure to be a hot cake in the Gulf !
Recently, the World Bank threatened to suspend all sorts of assistance related to the financial sector reform. The Scottish consulting firm, ICCMT that had been handling the management of troubled Nepal Bank Ltd. for the last five years, left the bank on July 22. So what? Kala Gaye Gora Aauchhan (Whites will come if the blacks leave). Or, rather it should be like this: Gora (Scotts or Americans) Gaye, Kala Aaunchhan. If you are black, better be prepared to submit your proposal for the Nepal Bank management contract.
Also you may be worrying about the fear of capital flight. Now that possibility has been stopped with the indefinite suspension of the flights of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC). How will capital fly if there is no NAC flying? After all, capital itself doesn't have any wings to fly on its own.
If you are scared of Cobra, Tiger, and Flame (Jwala) raising their head in Terai, the recent incessant rain must have flooded all of them away.
Moreover, many remarkable progresses have been made during the last fourteen months. Now Nepalis have the freedom to take ministerial oaths in denim jeans. There is freedom to amass an illimitable wealth through corruption without the fear of penalties, especially if you are the current prime minister's former associate or a Maoist; there is freedom to carry weapons into the parliament if you are a Member of Parliament; there is freedom to call strikes, shut highways and roads whenever you want. There is freedom to open steak houses and enjoy beef delicatessens; there is freedom to be called democratic without a democratic mandate. Practically, there is so much freedom that anyone is free to do whatever one's heart desires. After all, the April uprising has supposedly unfettered Nepal from the manacles of feudalism and tyranny.
So welcome to New Nepal!!
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