Posted by: ashu June 9, 2006
Nepotism in Kathmandu University
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I just enjoy this sentence from one of the postings above: "आफ्ना जागिरे जीवनको शुरुआत देखिनै दरबारसँग नजिक डा. सुरेश राज शर्माले, दरबारको निगाहाबाट भिन्न-भिन्न समयमा भिन्न-भिन्न स्थानमा महत्वपूर्ण पदहरु हासिल गरेको कुरा यहाँहरुलाई जानकारी नै होला। दरबारको ईशारामा नेपालको शिक्षानीतिलाई पनि दिशाहिन बनाउने बाटोमा लाग्दालाग्दै, डा. सुरेश राज शर्माले दरबारसँगको निकटताको अर्को उपलब्धी आज हाम्रा अगाडी प्रस्तुत गर्दै छन। त्यो हो, उहाँको मन्डले रुप। हो, यो सत्य हो, प्राज्ञिक स्वतन्त्रता र स्वाधिकारको डिँग हाँक्ने डा.शर्मा, आफ्नो विरोध र आफ्ना भ्रष्टाचारहरुको चर्चा-परिचर्चा हुँदा कुनै श्रिष शम्शेर र कुनै कमल थापा भन्दा कम छैन ।" I am no relative of Sharma. I do NOT know him personally, though I have met him twice (in 2002 and 2004) at professional meetings. And I have nothing to do with KU in any capacity. But even I -- a bystander to all this mess -- find the above (Nepali) paragrpah so silly, so khattam, so jhoor that I can say that such charges effectively undercut all other accusations against Sharma, and instead unwittingly makes him a victim of some political revenge. My two cents? Don't get carried away in a typical Nepali paara ko emotional way. [Those who do harm to YOU in 2006 need not necessarily be also devilishily plotting against larger Nepali democracy since 1986! Maintain a sense of perspective here.] Stick to the issues; look at the facts only; and try to bring an external commiitee to look at the mess in a fair manner. You say you are the wronged party; no one expects you to provide an impartial take on these issues. So re-store your own credibility by involving neutral parties as soon as you can. Take the complaints to the KU governing board, and NOT to the newspapers at this point. The results of washing the dirty laundry in public have NEVER been favorable to the plaintiffs in Nepal (in my limited observations!). Nepali newspapers print so many bad things about so many people all the time that nobody believes them for anything any more except read the stuff for juicy gossip for a day or two. If the KU governing board says no to your request to look into the matter, then take your complaints to the court. If all else fails, leave KU for somewhere else. There are many good colleges and universities around. ****** On a larger note, this KU story is the SAME as what pretty much happens in almost all Nepali NGOs and private companies and government bureaucracies where one or two netas with unchecked power use the institutions as their personal office to dole out jobs to their favorites and squash opposition from others. Around last year, it was Dinesh Prasain versus CVICT's Dr. Bhogendra Sharma . This year, it's some KU Teachers versus Dr. Suresh Sharma. The season has changed; the issues are the same! oohi ashu
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