"SECULAR NEPAL" IS BEST FOR ALL RELIGIONS, BUT MOSTLY FOR NEPALI HINDUS. UNDER "HINDU NEPAL", THE NEPALI BRAND OF HINDUISM HAS LANGUISHED. IT HAS BEEN HIGHJACKED BY INDIA-BASED VHP, SHIVA SENA, AND BJP WITH THEIR STOOGES IN NEPAL AND WHAT NOT! I DON'T FEEL PROUD TO SAY "NEPAL IS THE ONLY HINDU NATION IN THE WORLD"! THIS IS NOT A STATEMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT - IT IS A STATEMENT OF IMPOSITION, OF SUPREMACY. I DO NOT EVEN SAY "NEPAL HAS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD" (SO DOES CHINA) OR THAT "NEPAL IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF BUDDHA." THERE IS NO POINT IN RESTING ON ACCIDENTAL LAURELS. THIS IS LIKE LOSERS GRASPING AT A FLOATING STRAW THINKING IT WILL GIVE THEM SOME RESPECTABILITY. FALSE SENSE OF RESPECT SURE. NEPAL NEEDS TO GROW UP. NEPAL NEEDS TO PUT SUPERIORITY OF ONE RELIGION OVER OTHERS BEHIND FOR GOOD, AND LOOK FOR OTHER KINDS OF ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE PROUD OF. YEAH LIKE, APPA SHERPA CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST OVER A DOZEN TIMES AND SETTING A WORLD RECORD. LIKE SOME MAHATO GUY IN RUSSIA BECOMING VERY SUCCESSFUL AS AN ENTREPRENEUR. CELEBRATE GENUINE ACHIEVEMENTS - RATHER THAN IMPOSITION/SUPREMACY! YOU THINK I FEEL PROUD TO SAY "NEPAL IS THE ONLY HINDU KINGDOM IN THE WORLD" WHEN I HAVE TO CLAMP MY NOSE EVERYTIME I CROSS THE KUPONDOLE-THAPATHALI BRIDGE. WHEN SOMEBODY POINTED OUT TO ME, "BAGMATI IS NOT A RIVER, BUT A SEWER", I KNEW THIS IS WHAT "'HINDUISM" HAS BECOME UNDER 'HINDU NEPAL." IT WAS AS IF THAT GUY HAD CRIED: "YEAH BUT THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES." EAT THIS! "HINDU NEPAL" IS KILLING OFF HINDUISM. DALITS ARE FLEEING; CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM ARE GAINING GROUNDS, THANKS TO THE SPACE CREATED FOR THEM BY THE 1946 MOVEMENT. "ONLY HINDUS MAY ENTER" IS NOT MAKING TOURISTS/TRAVELLERS HAPPY. HINDUISM IS ATTRACTING PRIMARILY THE WESTERNERS WHO ARE INTO GANJA, HASH, DHATURO - NOT SPIRITUALITY. UNDER "HINDU NEPAL", HINDUISM HAS DEGENERATED. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? INDIA-BASED FUNDAMENTALIST HINDU ORGS AND HINDUS AND THEIR STOOGES IN NEPAL (PALACE, BHARAT KESHARI SINGH, THIS SUBEDI GUY OF SHIVA SENA NEPAL) ARE NOT INTERESTED IN HINDUISM OR THE UPKEEP OF HINDU SYMBOLS (TEMPLES, RIVERS, ETC), THEY ARE INTERESTED IN HINDUISM AS A TOOL TO STAY IN POWER AND ENRICH THEMSELVES. HINDUISM FOR THEM IS A STEPPING STONE. A MEANS TO AN END. PASHUPATI NATH HAS BECOME A POSTERBOY OF CORRUPTION, GREED, SINS, CHAKRIBAD, CONTROL OF PASHUPATI NATH BY INDIAN SHANKARACHARYAS (WITH NEPALI HINDU PRIESTS HAVE TO PLAY SECOND FILLES TO THEM). UNDER "SECULAR NEPAL", THE POSITIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST HINDUS WILL BE CONSIDERABLY WEAKENED. THEREFORE, "SECULAR NEPAL" MAKES GOOD SENSE FOR THE NEPALI BRAND OF HINDUISM IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.