Posted by: newuser April 4, 2006
Baburam Bhattarai was a Potential Chess Grandmaster
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''My challenge (in a positive sense) to you is simple: If you feel so committed to your political goal, so much so that you feel obviously so superior to others who do not share your political priority of throwing out the monarchy now, then you should put your money where your mouth is: Return home to spearhead the movement to success rather than forever coming across as a politically impotent activist who can neither rise to the top in the Western world in his/her chosen profession nor is influential in any sense in Nepal and who simply sits there in the West and criticizes Nepal and Nepalis for anything and everything different that they do in Nepal and among Nepali communities. '' Ashuji, How long did you spend in the US before returning to Nepal? What is the basis of your assumption that I am a ''politically impotent activist who can neither rise to the top in the Western world in his/her chosen profession nor is influential in any sense in Nepal and who simply sits there in the West and criticizes Nepal and Nepalis for anything and everything different that they do in Nepal and among Nepali communities.''? You have made some generalised personal comments here and let me write few things too. See, you may know or not know something about how long I am in here and whether I am rising in my chosen profession or not; and even I may have or haven't some inluential role to play, or at least through what I am doing from here. If you know nothing, then just shut up. If you know something, then base your argument on what you know; not on what you assume. First, don't boast that you are the only one to leave the west and base your profession in Nepal. FYKI, I worked in my chosen profession for three years in Nepal. Learnt something there, rose up and made the basis to continue the same profession in the west. Second, don't think that because you achieved what you could in the US and returned back after failing to rise, I have to follow suit. I can guarantee you that I have still many more years ahead to stay in the west, to rise on top of my profession and be considerably influential; you have already risen how much you could, I have an extra decade compared to yours to make mark. Got it Sir? Third, I don't believe that you are making a big contribution, simply staying in Kathmandu and flying to Dhaka every now and then with a briefcase and writing a column for a Nepalese magazine. If you think you have done remarkable things, please do list in here so that I will know what you have been doing from Kathmandu. I shall salute you after knowing what you did. Alright? Now keeping personal issues apart, if you had focussed in the political arguments only, my question was : What sort of a democrat you are who closes his eyes at the wrongdoings of the King while taking every chances to bashing and humilliating political parties and the maoists? No matter how many paragraphs of blabberings you have spilled so far, you haven't given me the answer yet. Concentrate on the main issue sir, if you want to discuss politics. Tell me how you are going to manage the maoists problem without dialogue and mediation?
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