>We need to have a dalit to officiate at the Pashupathinath temple.

JPEG bandhu,

If I rephrase it in the following way, it might point to the answer I am thinking.

We need to create a situation which produces more popular support and less resistance to the progressive reforms so that when “a dalit officiates at the Pashupathinath temple”, the change is irreversible.

So, basically what I saying is that HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN is more important than WHAT TO MAKE HAPPEN.

Now, to answer my own “HOW” question, I would say, political empowerment of Dalit is the first step. And, in many ways, my talk yesterday was about this issue.

And I was basically arguing that the empowerment of the subalterns is more efficient, more smooth, more direct, more penetrating and more permanent, if done through ‘inclusion’ in the central points of power (central government, central leadership of political parties and so on) rather than through ‘isolation’ in regional created centers (ethnic federal states).

As it stands, in Nepal, since 1990, “Party-patinaths” are more and actually powerful than the “Pashupatinath”.

शक्ति त पशुपतिनाथ भन्दा पनि पार्टीपतिनाथहरुसंग पो निहित छ त

So, in terms of both ‘revolution’ and ‘evolution’, replacing Pushpa Kamal Dahal with a Pushpa Kamal Dalit, Madhav Kumar Nepal with a Madho Kumar Nai, Girija Prasad Koirala with a Garima Koiri and so on in political parties’ leaderships should make stepping stones.

I hope I am not confusing.

JPEG, I would also like to take this opportunity to applaud you for bringing interesting/important information regarding our diverse ethnicities and specially for your celebratory notes. Great job.

Nepe

Partypatinath: