Posted by: kishnekale June 23, 2009
Nepal: Forms and Origins of Discrimination
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No offense but valuing it,  your account in this thread, Nepesir, reminds something of dinosaur age description of Nepal..a synopsis of an era ditto to the works of yesteryears’ greats such as D B Bista and H B Gurung. Their descriptions were hangover of jaat-bhat, a social-economic order based on then jaat hierarchy, less or nothing relevant to this day Nepal, euta jaat bhandaa mixed jaat nai badhi bhayeko Neplal, jalle mouka payo tyasaile sabai subidhaa liyeko Nepal!

 

Today’s social order is measured in terms of productivity, which you know very well, and this too you know very well, this economic system in today’s world, including in your beloved Mao’s China, largely depends on mouka ..on access, but not by jaat bhaat! Access to; transportation, education, information, hospitals and anything but facility. Like mine, like yours. So, do you see from here, what kind of realities we have in Today’s Nepali? If you don’t, to tell you, there are only two jaats in Nepal in broader term- one has access to everything or most of it. They live in areas with transportation lead (road, airport, helipad), school and colleges, hospitals and probably with institutions, where they can learn computer or get passport… be it Kathmandu Valley, most of Kavre, district headquarters such as Dunai, or as plain and simple as Morang. The other one is remote of Jajarkot- least of everything across jaats you mentioned, because they don’t have access.  

 

To put you before more diligently, how the heck one Newar from Solukhumbu, earning less than 10000 a year as a porter, would be at ease with Biman Man Sing’s wealth or BC’s mon-fri job somewhere in US? BC’s nonsense talks here in this forum benefit across the jaats, whoever speaks Nepali, whoever is no superficial! One earning Damai from a Jajarkot village can afford Samata School’s fee for his children, but cant send them to that school.

 

Why do you want to fuel this jaatbhaat aago, country is burning enough! If you want to take this issue further, take it with full empathy, with full responsibility..its good not to dilute others if one cant devote..again, no offense


 

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