Posted by: isolated freak September 10, 2007
kisunji's royal rhetoric
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I agree dictatorship in any form whether Royal or other is bad and I don't support that either. However, I do believe that things went drastically out of hand after 2046. Whether the Panchayati peace was superfacial or real does not matter. What matters is: we were pretty stable and a functioning state. And that's enough to romanticize that period.

Hypothetically speaking, maybe the Panchayat could have reformed itself and took the problems you listed seriously and tried to solve those. Who knows? Maybe (again hypothetically speaking) the system would have develped its own mechanism to deal/solve the problems it had created.

Now what did the parties do? I mean 30 years of Panchyat was bad but what did the 15 years of democracy gave us? What did the parties do to correct or solve the national problems?

Its always easy to romanticize (I guess this is much midler than preaching:-) democracy and democratic ideals from faraway in DC, NYC and Boston, but once you are in Nepal and constantly dealing with the problems created by democracy, you get quite disillusioned with the whole system. Constant load shedding, bombing, julus..nepal bandh.How long can a nation go on like this? What did the 15 years of democracy give to the people? Freedom of expression in a country whose 60% of the population is illiterate? And you can exercise that right only to flay the monarchy. gajjab cha ba!
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