http://www.nepalitimes.com/blogs/thebrief/2011/03/17/wagle-convicted-for-corruption/

Guys today I was reading the news in Nepal, and it made me really sad. Please don't read my words below if you don't want to feel down. But I really needed to express myself.  

What a huge price that most Nepalese have to pay just so a few leaders, businessmen or bureacrats can feel good about themselves? In the end when you do the calculation, it makes you really wonder. So much hurt and bitterness in Nepal due to the action of a few. So many shattered hearts, disillusionment, hopelessness. So much anger, frustration, dissappointment at the leadership. So much sadness. But yet, the leaders go on, smiling, showing their 32 teeth, with pride, at what they've been able to achieve, at the expense of the masses. They are slum lords in the avenue of beggars. And their pride is that they eat well when they see so many around them going hungry. I don't know about about you all, but when I watch that, it makes me feel sick. I am amazed and afraid both at the same time. I cannot understand how such people function.

When I think of the beautiful people in Nepal, the innocent smile. And then I see that same innocence replaced by hatred and bitterness due to broken trust, it makes me shake my head. When I see the softness and sweetness of my Nepali friends, today, they have become hard and rough due to day to day tolerating the difficulties of coping with a war-like atmosphere in their home country, it makes me shake my head. When I think about what Nepal could have been, and what it is today, it really makes me shake my head. I shake my head in wonder, in amazement, in disbelief, in sadness, in compassion. But most of all, I shake my head watching the leaders who congratulate themselves for being a "success" by standing victoriously over the crushed limbs and bodies of the hungry, poor, and weak. I am amazed that they can find the space to celebrate their victory without seeing how their actions have hurt so many. I am amazed and cannot understand.