Posted by: pire September 23, 2010
How do you encourage corruption in Kathmandu culture?
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Homeyji,

Your analogy is not entirely convincing. A sinking ship doesn't need the rats to come back. It still needs something colossal, something intelligent, initiatives, but I don't want to stretch this too far as I don't think Nepal is a sinking ship. We are a poor country, but we are not sinking. We left our nadir in 1950AD.

Why did I ask for intelligent people to go first? Well, it just seems that a lot of uneducated people have gone back to Nepal. My neighborhood actually have tens of people who have visited Europe, lived in America and gone back. They visited Europe in some krishi adhyayan tour. They went to Japan as early as 2020 saal. But unfortunately, they came back with defeated mentality, "we can never be like them" mentality, rather than "we are also capable" mentality.

Before 2007 saal(1950AD), thousands of Nepali sons went to Europe and four corners of the world to fight for British. They had seen the world, they had known democracy and development, but when they went back, most of them quietly lived in peace with their wives and their pensions. It is not that they didn't want Nepal to be as developed or as democratic, it is just that they were clueless on where to start.

What I see among Nepali in the USA or in Sajha is similar type of rage, but rage without any initiative. Cursing leaders is not a solution. In fact, we had lots and lots of leaders who were extremely good. Despite all accusations, it is clear that Krishna Prasad Bhattarai was honest at the core, Man Mohan Adhikari was honest and there are still lots of them around, including Sushil Koirala who doesn't have his own house or any relative to leave the wealth. Wealth and greed didn't attract these people to politics, and those in USA, who split their organizations in 50 pieces or who form organization just so that they can be 'head' of some organization here and called to grace a ceremony from dais are not comparable to these leaders.




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