Posted by: CT. February 27, 2009
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This thread is moving to pride rather than colonized or non-colonized issues. So, I pop in to share one of my experience, i think it was 6-7 yrs ago.
A British friend of mine was praising Nepal and Nepalese people for providing them Gurkha people to serve their country. He said British society encourage its youth-mass to learn from Gurkha people and serve the country. The message is if they can come to die for us, why can't we die for our owns? He indeed knew a lot of stuffs about Nepal, its history, culture, foreign relations etc. He was describing all these to me and other people around, in fact was exaggerating a lot than what it should be, that I felt shy and uncomfortable at the moment. A ShriLankan guy got surprised (may be irritated) to hear all these and asked why Nepal is not strong and systematic these days despite having such a good people, desciplined, devoted, cultured.... Why Nepal's army was not able to control maoist insurgency? I tried to describe the maoists were supported by India despite they officially have put terrorist tag on maoists. At that time everybody (except Nepalese) used to suspect China for planting communist rebels in Nepal. They asked other follow up questions and I detailed my opinions but, to be honest, I don't believe they understood or accepted my point. The talk somehow diverted to India's bad policy toward its neighbors because the ShriLankan guy is a Tamil and was suffered by the struggle between Tamils and Singhal, for which he blamed to India. Then the discussion went into sour debate for Indian guys who were present there. They tried to explain good intent of the Indian role on those struggles. Today, when I recal the moment, I think, the whole discussion was because of the british guy who over-praised Gurkha, may be because he found a Nepalese guy listening to him. Ultimately, the discussion ended in hot debate between Indian guys and its anti-indian neighbors that did nothing good but encouraging to guzzle some more Tequila. He He
A British friend of mine was praising Nepal and Nepalese people for providing them Gurkha people to serve their country. He said British society encourage its youth-mass to learn from Gurkha people and serve the country. The message is if they can come to die for us, why can't we die for our owns? He indeed knew a lot of stuffs about Nepal, its history, culture, foreign relations etc. He was describing all these to me and other people around, in fact was exaggerating a lot than what it should be, that I felt shy and uncomfortable at the moment. A ShriLankan guy got surprised (may be irritated) to hear all these and asked why Nepal is not strong and systematic these days despite having such a good people, desciplined, devoted, cultured.... Why Nepal's army was not able to control maoist insurgency? I tried to describe the maoists were supported by India despite they officially have put terrorist tag on maoists. At that time everybody (except Nepalese) used to suspect China for planting communist rebels in Nepal. They asked other follow up questions and I detailed my opinions but, to be honest, I don't believe they understood or accepted my point. The talk somehow diverted to India's bad policy toward its neighbors because the ShriLankan guy is a Tamil and was suffered by the struggle between Tamils and Singhal, for which he blamed to India. Then the discussion went into sour debate for Indian guys who were present there. They tried to explain good intent of the Indian role on those struggles. Today, when I recal the moment, I think, the whole discussion was because of the british guy who over-praised Gurkha, may be because he found a Nepalese guy listening to him. Ultimately, the discussion ended in hot debate between Indian guys and its anti-indian neighbors that did nothing good but encouraging to guzzle some more Tequila. He He