Et all,
Whoever this _________ is with no name whatsoever really has a lot of time at hand or is fully vested to dig down and spend sleepless night rewriting, copying and re-cycling the information we all know in this boring and extended monologue. It even took a while just to scroll down the page and many in the pack themselves complained that it took them an hour just to read it. What a waste of time. How many hours did ______ spend just to write this time instead of copy and paste as he usually does? Next time write something from your head and intellect instead of memory of a parrot.

I went to sleep after few para cause it was uninteresting a bunch of babbling mumbo jumbo. It felt like a Pundit recital rattling lots of un-understandable text instead of discussing in qualitative and innovative way and thinking. It must have been overwhelming to you all. Sorry, for me it is just lots of water poured over aimlessly and uselessly indicative of utter frustration with no rational arguments and thus venting oneself with lots of words.

Having said that, here is a small advice. Next time try to be short and precise if you want people to read it and react properly to it. People in America and even here in Nepal does not have time to go thru this “Panditam Puranam”.

 

Getting down to business:

Fact is when PNS invaded the “Nepal Khalto) and army of some 2000 Brahmin advisors came along with him. On their advice the first objective was to subdue and suppress and even cleanse the existing culture to the core specially the language part because it was the sound and voice which people uttered and spoke and even protested. They wanted to hit the culture at it heart. This strategy is still is live and kicking in the minds of the present populace of the khas people. As for the beautiful temples, statuettes of Gods and Goddess and all the jatras and other artifacts was what they want to own and rename to “NEPALI” as they were carved in gold and silver, in bronze and brass, with equally beautiful impression in wood, stones, clay, and in every possible material the Newar artists could lay their hands on. What ever they touched turned to art and this was what the new victors were after, to own the artifacts and not to preserve the people and its culture. One preserves the skill and talents of the people but rulers want to owns the artifact and work of art.

You got it all wrong. There is not an aiota of truth in your argument. It was shear greed and nothing more. If these rulers were real connoisseurs and lovers of arts then why did they not help real development of the arts of Nepal ever in 240 years of the Shah regime. The ruler were scared that the art itself might overwhelm them. It was shear envy and deep rooted jealousy.

It is important, dear friend, to decipher and analyze the motivation and intent behind each action taken by the people, more so by a group of people with the advantage of the government mechanism in hand making laws on the fly to there own advantage without consensus or approval. These are illegal action and violation of basic human rights and rules, obligation and etiquette.

With such power in hand and with such clever advisors, one had the sublime opportunity to do real good deeds for the subjects and the people of the land for their welfare and freedom, for their personal, social and economical development. The rulers could have ruled and made this land a prosperous country with productive and thriving people. The people would have respected and revered just rulers and the history and legacy would have remembered them as great leaders and rulers. That could have been a WIN WIN situation.

Instead what they opted for just boggles my mind. Choices were made to unleash a reign of greed and suppression, prosecution and insult and to steal and snatch from the people who were poor and industrious. What is pathetic legacy? Sorry. Nepal has the lowest per capital income in Asia. If one cannot lead and rule they need to get out of the way.

 

Let me tell you something that you may overlooked it intentionally. “Nepal khalto” as you know, was a real melting pot, a sanctuary for those who were prosecuted and chased away from their native land because of religion or because of defeats by ruthless rulers. Passing thru the great mountainous range and away from their prosecutors they found sanctuary and peace in this serene land and valleys of the Himalayas. Thru the ages people from all around came to this peaceful land. The Kirata reached Nepal in around 1000- 1200 years BCE from the east coming from as far as south and west China thru Burma and Assam.. They ruled until the Lichhavis came from Vaishali, Bihar when they were defeated from their homeland. The Thakuri ruled for a short while starting from Amsuverma and then again the Lichhavis ruled and faded away. Soon the Malla kings also the Khastriya ruling class came into power. All kings were by of the Khastriya  class “by occupational” this is different than “Khasas” people we see around here in Nepal.

You know all this but what you do not know is that the art, culture and language of the land was not what the rulers created but was created by the ordinary people who lived thru various rules and dynasties as their way of livelihood and occupation. It was an outlet of grief and frustration living under strict rules while a means of socialization and enjoyment of life in tehother. People of the ruling class may want to claim the culture and art of the time as they think it happened under their rule, but dear friends, the culture and the art and the creativity belongs to the people who actually worked created them.

In this melting pot of the “Nepal Khalto” people came from allover the land, far and wide, from the north or the south, and formed a culture distinct and different from that of the rulers who were mainly interested in grabbing and taking it away from the people. Be it a Thakuri ruler, or the Malla rulers or the Shah rulers or the Ranas. To make you understand the distinction, as I think you don’t, is that art comes from the people with their creativity and innovative designs and interpretation. Like the jatras and many other unique festivities also cames from the people and exists in Nepal in its unique form and shape. Like, the concept of ‘Kumari” or the concept of “Mha Puja” or bahrah taygu” and many others which are unique cultures of “Nepal Khalto” Historian and anthropologist have studied them intensely and admired it creativity, universality of concept and depth of knowledge and their interpretation of what life means to them.

If you understand, the gist of mine here is that the art is created by the people and not by the rulers. They may facilitate to some degree. Some rulers become patrons of arts and they gain respect because they do everything to advance the creativity and richness of the national arts and culture. The Shah or the Rana regime was not one of them.

 

In this melting pot with contribution from all those who found sanctuary in the land and who adopted a new life and identity here came the genesis, the beginning, of a culture and art form which finally came to be known to the world as the Newah culture and Arts. So vast and intense and so productive and unique is this cultural symbolism and elements o fit is  that the museums of the world are flooded with the art and lack enough room to display them as they want. They stay inside in the archives unfortunately. Many curators and art specialist says that the Newah art of Nepal is expressive, commanding and captivating compared to many other arts from India, Africa, or South America, and even the early European arts of the comparable times.

 

We Newars are particular about this, and instead of working together if some people of Nepal want to and try to change the name or rename and want to own the arts names by default and take credit for it, I would suggest to them to take a second look. We ask them to be honest and fair and call upn them to call ”Spade a Spade” and not try to full a fast one under us. This deceit, lie, and false action will be vehemently opposed. One set of people are keenly vested in trying to do just that and we want to bring to their notice that they should stop throwing sand on the face of the people of Nepal. Stop these sorts of ridiculous exercise to confuse and trick people in calling things with different names so that at consequence it becomes that name by default.

Like good citizen, let’s call SPADE A SPADE and shake hand and live happily after.

Stop calling Khas-kura - Nepali, because it is not.
Are you ashamed of calling it KHAS_KURA? 

Stop calling Newah culture _ NEWARI or NEPALI culture

Stop changing whatever is “Nepal” into “Nepali” like Nepal army as Nepali Army, NEPAL EMBASSY has become NEPALI EMBASSY, NEPAL RADIO has become NEPALI RADIO and so on and so forth.

PEOPLE OF NEPAL (because of diverse cultures) cannot be called Nepali People, because NEPALI is Khas-kura. Nepali people means khas people by this.

Where did the word NEPALIS come from? What grammar is it? Can anyone tell me?

In English language it is Nepalese People and not NEPALIS people. Are you grammatically dis-advantaged? Or intentionally corrupting the words?

These are all concoctions by the smart Bahun kind who think they can gradually make the change and own it in the name of NEPALI by default. Stop this trickery!

 

I have put out a call for anyone to define what NEPALI CULTURE is.

As many of you wants to call it so but one need to know what is its origin and it philosophical basis and when did this name come into existence and where are the evidences of such a culture I have not heard of in the history books. I do not know this can anyone of you tell me correctly? Each one of you ask for yourself what entails a NEPALI CULTURE” and ask the question above. You be at a loss and will not find any definition in your search.

Thank for today. More will follow as we go on writing these ridiculously long narratives that puts everyone to sleep.

 

Thanks