With due respect to all, it is difficult to understand all sides of help drive, vote for help drive. For many people, vote was a national issue.

Help is a temporary, a brief measure. Is that the answer to a much known situation of shortage of income? Can one cure one chronic illness with a band-aid? Can citamol cure poverty?  No idea how long can CHASE’s Fund sustain? Should the citizens and the concerned ones of Nepal, an economy of nearly $19 B. GDP (WB), be focusing on CHASE voting? Instead, does Nepal lack solutions, local solutions, solutions that educated can offer and demo, to solve and grow?

Said that, Help is requisite during certain times and situations. When Seti floods in, affected people need various emergency aids. They need water, medicines, and shelters, to list the least. Flood victims rely on outsiders for relief measures and to recover. Charitable donation is a must at that time. Similarly, the godly work of Ms. Dil Shobha Shrestha depends on donation. How can one ask elders on bed to work and earn food?

In contrast to above two examples, those who fail to attend school are victims of poverty, hunger, malnutrition, unsafe and limited water. If they are not attending schools, they are doing so because of many issues, not necessarily because they completely lack access to schools. Poverty is continuing. Income is the issue. When society is stricken with poverty and exclusiveness, health and education will not develop. One can’t cure a chronic illness with a band-aid.

Tackle hunger and water, destroy poverty

In a country where food is in scarce, if not the land, work culture is the area to focus on. In a country where rivers are limitless, but people struggle to draw water, think about that problem to get the answer. Work culture is the weak area. Work culture is unbalanced and unproductive.

Women work more and suffer, and men tend to work only when situation demands. Women work throughout the year, men don’t. That is the work culture of subsidence farming. If one wants to earn more than food, work is the answer; work is the fundamental of productive economy. Health and education are functions of income, which is a function of economy. Motivate to work at least an hour more a day. IF we don’t work, citamol can’t help. My views.

HNN and Rabindra Mishra

Does he understand well? Why did he request Baburam in that runche languages to stop violence after letting BBC Nepali Sewa perform as a propaganda machine of Maoists? Either he didn’t comprehend he was used by the Maoists then or he did drama later by writing that ‘famous’ letter to Baburam. Supporting Maoists cannot be justified. Even if 15,000 plus dead citizens are forgotten, every death, every crime Nepal experiences today has Maoists’ finger- and foot-prints.

This guy is sexist. Not a long time back, he wrote a sentence that was full of chauvinism. He does not know how to be respectful to anyone, for that matter.

Think about this sentence taken from Help Nepal website: HeNN Nepal encourages Nepalis at home to have a plate of momo or a few cups of tea less in a month and donate the savings to the fund. Is that the right tone? Make serious and sober request to the people to come forward, be together, and overcome undesirable social situations. That is respectful. Respect is unsubstantiated but is an imperative of every individual of the social spectrum.  

Help Nepal Network (HNN) says, “The aim of the Network is to encourage Nepalis and those who love Nepal around the world to provide assistance in the fields of health and education in rural Nepal. The Network also provides occasional support to disaster relief efforts.”  HNN sounds right on the later part, but fails to utilize the synergy.

HNN is a network of educated and rich ones, the brighter and stronger side of the society. Don’t you want to use knowledge and experiences to tackle the problems at the root level instead of their votes to buy citamol? Utilize their knowledge and experience to root out the disease.                                                                          

In reality, Rabindra Mishra comes from Donald Trump School of publicity and business. Mishra known BBC Nepali Sewa is in danger in spite of a reasonable size of listenership.  If he fails to maintain that listenership, he loses the only point that is supporting that service. Mishra needs to create attentions to maintain that listenership or increase that even further and save his income, anyhow, just like Trump, so-called billionaire. Trump manages a good income out of Celebrity Apprentice, which, according to critics, is the reason for his publicity stunts. Trump’s distractors don’t believe he is rich enough to ignore money he makes presenting NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice.

Anyway I’ve no idea who is Rabindra Mishra, I’ve never seen him before, I’m not much into his radio presentation,  I read his writing a few times, including that ‘famous’ letter, I wish him good health, I just disagree with his approach, his disrespectful presentation, pretentious, disingenuous, views.

 Drive for work, not for vote.

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