Now I am totally glutted to read the threads of Prashant Tamang. I have previously mentioned, in another thread, that the attached tag of nationalism, in this issue, is beyond my comprehension. But, why this simple public fervor turned into massive hysteria? There are some issues to dwell upon. Most of the time, I am reading his staunch supporters supporting him on the basis of his origin. Now, here only, one can introspect if it’s right? Lecturing about communal harmony in one thread, and in subsequent thread, asking people to support a person with the reasons like ‘he talks ur language, well he put Dhaka topi” is totally contradiction to itself. All those hullabaloos of the ‘he said this about Nepal, he said that about Nepali’ is right to the certain extend but it has been aggrandized in such a way that a normal Nepali would not be considered normal if he doesn’t support Mr. Tamang. Now, how fair is that? Pseudo-Intellect like me, oh well yeah, would have hard time to discern it. I would request other intellects over here to put some light. But, why we have such public hysteria? Mr. Suna in this thread and hoards of others on the other thread explained, as one of the reason, the racist and biased mentality of the Indians towards Nepali, especially the expatriates. With my whole hearted affection to those who have been in such kind of deplorable situation, I would like to ask,” what can we expect from a society which itself is divided into so many strata that even those populace don’t know whom they are fighting with?”. Our society is an epitome of that very notion too. Such kind practices have engulfed our whole county, and also the Darjeeling, Mr Tamang’s home town. If anybody asserts that Nepalese don’t do it (or even it is just with indian’s coz they deserve it) then I must say I have to disapprove with you. We are happy to be relating, even 1%, with white skin, or to some extent with fairer skin than us but with other colors…. Oh well!! Every expats’ in this world, who ever he is or wherever he is, has faced some kind of alienation if not total abomination. Then, the question comes, why are we quiet to hear a “FOB” from a conservative Iowans but why do we “just” make case with the Indians (sometime even fake such as “Hrithik Kanda”)? The ambivalent nature of the Indian and Nepalese is not just the case of our generation; this has been going on from eons. The PR of Indians has been in steep hill, since the cases of “Tanakpur” and “Kalapani”. In our own shame, on both occasions, diplomats of the elected erstwhile government were there. At that time, if the public outrage was half of the support of what Mr. Tamang is getting, possibly, there could have been something. The recent dam incident and all those floods of the past has definitely miffed the Nepalese of all strata, but we haven’t seen a single organization pressing hard on such issues, forget the pro-prashant-hence-raise-Nepali-pride brigade or anti-Indian-racism-hence-pro-prashant brigade. Then comes the question, are we really doing it for the national pride? We Nepalese, with a grim face I have to accept that, are looking for heroes. We are deprived of national heroes from ages. We did go to the funeral procession of BP and Narayan Gopal in millions but after that we are craving for someone to unite us together. But, saying that we haven’t united or given proper felicitation for the real deserving people like Mahabir Pun, who won the Magsaysay award, the most coveted and prestigious award of Asia. How many threads were there in Sajha? Where were you, my help-nepali-for-his-origin-thus-raise-Nepali-pride brigade friends, at that time? Some fellow bloggers wrote (on another thread I remember Bob Marley’s comment) that this is bringing us closer and keeping us unite. After reading those, I felt so bad for myself and my people, that how frail and dilapidated we must be, that we become hysteric by a contestant in second rated musical show even in India( after Saregamapa) of the second rated TV channel, that’s also from a third world country like India. Then again, why the heck? Well I would just stop with one question. How many of us and in our surrounding have the I-love-those-desi-babes-but-hate-those-dhotis mentality??? If there are, is it due to issues I mentioned above?? Or, if it’s the well preserved patriotism? Well, gotta’ tell you some thing folks; majority of these brigade-comrades can’t even name all 14 zones of Nepal. On lighter side, I-love-bolly-hunks-but-hate-those-dhotis are also there.