To KALP with love Let me start off wit the meaning of HEGEMONY. “Hegemony (pronounced hɪ'gem.ə.ni) (greek:ηγεμονία) is the dominance of one group over other groups, with or without the threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. Hegemony controls the ways that ideas become "naturalized" in a process that informs notions of common sense.” (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony) Make no mistake, not even once about the fact that we live in a world that is far-off from perfect. The principles that we are made to believe in are skewed. Right and wrong, good and bad, beauty and ugliness are all situational and reciprocal. “WE FEEL THAT STAYING AWAY FROM HOME WE SHOULD DO WHATEVER WE CAN IN SAVING OUR NATION from foreign bullies. WE HAVE BEEN THINKING OF FILING A PETITION IN INDIAN EMBASSY, CHINESE EMBASSY AND THE UN AGAINST INDIA FOR SHELTERING THE MAOIST Guerrilla.” Let us cleaning up after ourselves before throwing dirt at others. We created the mess and it is our responsibility to find the way out. It is a fact that India plays a vital part in our country’s policy, economics, politics and so on and so forth but I don’t agree on filing petition against India for harboring Maoists. I agree that India has never been the best of neighbors as it ought to be but how can we exclusively blame India for nurturing and harboring Maoists and what is the reasoning behind it? Just take an example of US-Mexico boarder. You would assume that it is simple enough task for the US government to put a halt to the infiltration, but the reality is just opposite, right? Now, it is a different ball game altogether when you think of Indo-Nepal border, and especially when we look alike it is next to impossible to stop Maoists or for that matter any other Nepali at the border. When stopping somebody at the border is such a herculean task, let’s not even delve into nurturing and harboring and similar clichés by India. The other problem with our government is that they don’t take Indian government as any other government but as their boss or something more than that. India will always try to act our big brother given the size and to be superpower tag attached to it. Let’s put some portion of the blame on our so called leaders who are always keen to kiss India’s ass for no reasons whatsoever and let’s take some on ourselves. India itself is in the grasp of Maoism or Naxalites at least in some regions, few closer to Nepal as well. No doubt, India could have been much more aggressive against Maoists but didn’t want to take the brunt of Nepal’s’ mess reasons best known for India. It would be inane on our part to blame India for harboring Maoists. India’s indifference to Maoist problem in Nepal doesn’t essentially mean that India supported them. Make no mistake that anti king doesn’t necessarily mean one is Maoist. “India should know that we Nepalese are not like what we were in the yesteryears and we will not let anything India wants to happen to our Nepal.” Sounds good, real good, in fact revolutionary, if you are the one responding to the anti-India crowd, but in realism it doesn’t bear any significance. India is flying high, and with the soon to be superpower tag to its name, India is beyond our reach at least for now and our country, we are fighting amongst ourselves in the name of democracy. King is the unifying factor of the nation- do hell with king and other moronic leaders. The truth of the matter is that we don’t have even one single leader but the bunch of opportunists. “India put Pakistan's name in UN and tried its best to declare Pakistan as terrorist country. What about us going to DC and handling the petition telling India not to cause terrorism in our country, telling them to stop providing security, shelter and financial and ammunition help to Maoists?” Well, the comparisons of Nepal’s relationship with India cannot be correlated with India’s wrath against Pakistan or vise versa. In India’s case, it is Pakistanis’ who are infiltrating to India in the pretext of Kashmir’s freedom but in the case of Nepal, it is Nepali Maoists who are in India to delude the so called government of Nepal or get arms and ammunitions or medical treatments after getting wounded in the so called peoples’ war or for the reasons unknown to us coming back to Nepal. No matter how hard we yell, curse or complain against India, the fact of the matter is India is a bitter truth for us, as long as Nepal exists. I identify with your frustration and wrath but does that change anything? Would our voice be heard? When our own government and leaders are incompetent, what is the point in voicing our anger to India or to any other country and especially when the fault lies in us? Well, if you really want to do something, help some Nepali less unfortunate than yourself by whatever means you can, which could be by sponsoring the education of a poor girl or boy. Make sure that you can make some difference. Last but not the least, there’s a saying- “complain to one who can help you”, in this case it is none other than LORD SHIVA himself.