Mr. Hyde,

HaHa. Paid holidays, however, are going to be paid in one way or the other by underpaid workdays, नि त ।

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Loote-jyu,

I agree with your intuition and common sense regarding the cost of haphazardness. However, as for the decisions taken by our transitional government so far -- as far as I can see -- for most of them including “secular state”, indecision or refusal were about to be more costly than the haphazard decisions.

“Secular state” was Maoist’s and progressive civil society’s agenda and there was no way to refuse them at that time of appeasement and winning the trust being the state's need.

Although imposed, I am not really unhappy with the declaration of secular state. First off, I think it is good for Nepal. It keeps everybody except kattar Hindubadis happy and united, and it gives us an image of a modern or modernizing country--something that might be very crucial to attract large foreign investments (from non-Hindu and secular countries) in future. Then, not to lose our democratic credential, we still have chance (broadly speaking) to review it, if there happened to be tremendous popular displeasure/rebellion against it.

By any standard of fairness, if Hindu state of Nepal can get 230 unquestioned years, the secular state of Nepal should get at least 10 unquestioned years. Ki kaso ? If it has to be tested, let’s do a referendum sometime in 2017 AD. Secular state deserves some years to prove its merit. त्यति concession त दिनै पर्छ, यार ।

Even without all that, the new constitution drafted by new Constitution Assembly eventually (with whatever decision/reviewing/endorsement on the secular state) is going to be presented to the people for their endorsement (the exact formality has not been worked out. So it could be presented to the parliament or just plainly to the people for their vocal support or who knows will be put in a formal referendum). That should pass the democratic test for all that there are in the constitution for all practical purpose.

So it’s not over yet. We can not judge it yet. जस्तो लाग्छ है मलाई त ।

Nepe