And I never understood why we have to be proud of Buddha or Everest in the first place! Everest just happened to be here. It was a natural outcome of tectonic shifts. Nepalese didn't lift it or carried it to where it is now. About Buddha, even if he was born here, what we know now as Buddhism and what attracts so many to him found its form in India. Indians are wrong to claim that Buddha was born in India. Again, I don't see anything to be proud of simply because Buddha was born in Nepal. We neither were a Buddhist country ever nor we have shown a single trait that reflects Buddhism in our behavior. Gurkhas! The ultimate mercenaries of the 21st century (go check merriam webster first before spewing venom)!! They neither fought the maoists when we needed them nor are they loyal to our government. For your information, they are loyal to the Queen of England, and we are supposed to be proud of them as well! Really? Seriously I couldn't even fathom all the craze over that actress whatever her name was. When the western region of Nepal was/is engulfed in epidemic, our prime minister was granting her audience and people were naming hills after her. Nepalese need a psychiatric evaluation first for their misplaced patriotic forms.

People should be proud of what we did as people: any achievement for mankind or any epitome of hard work. It befits the Japanese to be proud of their technology, Germans of their engineering, Americans of their capitalism etc. etc. To shout loud to be proud of the inanimate is shameful and shameless has always been a Nepalese tradition.

Now let's burn sajha for the things I said. Astu.