Posted by: sumedhu December 5, 2007
Bir Bir Gorkhali
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Makuramanche,

"A little knolwledge is always a dangerous thing." Please study more and travel across the world to get enlightened. Your foul language doesn't prove anything substantail. Please go on vomiting the bad out o from greay stuff, if there is any, inside your skull.

You said , Gorkhas are admired in the whole world. It is an utter sheet. Go from Indonesia to Gallipoli and then to the latin Americas , they will merely tell you the bad stories of these so called war heroes. Go to Pakistan and they will call with all the foul names for these Gorkhas fighting for India. Go to Malaysia as you have claimed, they are accused of killing the Malaysian Communist Party supporters so ruthlessly. Go away beyond the british occupied territories, and their identity is so bleak. And go to India your so called admirers ,  will rather call you गोर्खे , बहादुर, कान्छा, चौकिदार instead of praising you for your bravery and chivalry.

And for those who have accused  me of being a Bahun. I have nothing to say. Being myself a Magar in a multi ethnic village , I have been a vehement critic of this so called Gorkhalism. I always sided with the concpt "Down with Gorkha recruitmen campaign'" .I studied in Indian schools than because my father himself in Indian army. I hate this culture and I really pity on our so called Janajatis as they can not compete with the cunning Bahuns because they accept their greatness by being Lahures. If Janajatis are to stake more claim in the national politics, they have to bycott this Lahure culture and try to make their presence felt in the national politics, civil service  job opputunities and by studying. Look at the bahuns and Newars, they have been out of Nepal with their strength of study calibre. Look at the janajatis , they have been fighting alonside the British for the last two hundred years and where we are .And don't blame the Bahuns and Chhetris alone because this blame game does not make you superior. As a student of human history, I know that this was the Gorkha King Dravya Shaha who first made the chhetris , Gurungs and Magars of  western Nepal under the command of Ganesh Pandey whose great grandsom Kalu Pandey was the commander of the same Gorkha Army that unified Nepal. After his time, his son Bahadur shaha unified the eastern part and brought the rais and Limbus also in his Gorkha army as was aptly called because this was the army of the Gorkha Principality. The leaders and commanders and advisors even then were Bahuns and Chhetris as they were  considered  superior  for  formulating startegies as compared to the Janajati foot soldiers.

Later , British realized that they were superior themselves in the mental game of the warfare and in formulating startegies. So they did not like to take in the clever Bahuns but went along with a few clever Chhetris to command their platoons. this is the history. The docile Janjatis could cause less problems because they were considered ignorant and obedient to their masters then.

Now the whole world has changed and Janjatis can equallycompete with any other people of castes and creeds. It is time for our Janajatis to realize that we can neither be brave or great by being employed as merceneries to serve others. We have to do away with this false propoganda of Gorkhali heroics because there was nothing as such. We have to come out of this self'eulogising falsehood and try to explore greatness in our children's future. मैले अघि नै भनिसकेँ अर्का का लागि बन्दुक बोकेर अर्काका शत्रू मार्न सहयोग गरिदिएर हामी महान बनिँदैन । हाम्रो महानताको प्रमाण कहीँ कतै छैन न त हाम्रो कथित महान कामले हाम्रो देश कहिलै महान हुन नै सकेको थियो। न त हामी बेलायत भयौँ न त अमेरिका न त कुनै अरू कुने गतिलो मुलुक बनन सक्यौँ । अनि कसरी महान भइयो हामी?

अर्को कुरा लाहुरे प्रवृत्ति र गोर्खाली कुराको बिरोध गर्न सबैभन्दा बढी जनजातीले नै पर्छ । बाहुनलाई गाली गरेर हामी ठूलो हुने पनि हैन , ठूलो हुन त हामीले भाडाको टट्टु हुन छाडेर आफ्नो देशमा अरूभन्दा अघि बढ्न के गर्नुपर्छ त्यो पो सोच्नु पर्छ र गर्नु पर्छ ।

हामी आँफैले हामी गोर्खाली महान भनेर के कुरा हासिल हुन्छ ?

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