गरिबको छोराले दुई शब्द बोल्दा पनि अपाच्य हुने र अतिरन्जित हुन पर्ने. कस्तो बिडम्बना !

When I was a kid, a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grow up. I replied by saying a 'snob' and it came true today :) Now I can get off my high horse satisfied and maybe wear a monocle and top hat. Btw, do you know what condescending means? It means 'to look down.' Surgeon General's Warning: The international school of sarcasm suggests using a lot of smiley when sarcasm mode is on :) :) How do you like them apples? /jk  /mild rant

Dear Vasudev,

Having talked to you before, it’s a bit surprising that your deduction of my post is trivial and at worst antithetical. I am sure your intention was not to cherry pick from the whole post and analyze without the magnifying contextual glass.

I have tried my best to be consistent. My repetitive mantra has been that that we can overcome social discrimination by working together and not by dividing the country along the ethnic lines. And that social transformation requires generational changes. In order to do that I presented my anecdote in a chronological order. The act of eating ‘thulo khasi’ was a sub-conscious act of rebellion. Mind you, Khas were and still are forbidden to eat buffalo meat. And yes, it was not a favor to anyone but myself. Having broken that line and later my close friendship with people from different castes and creed, and not to mention education I had received so far made me disillusioned about the caste system prevailing in Nepal at early point of my life. As such I have I have always been voicing my support for a fair and just society and the earlier post is not an exception either.

Notwithstanding my little displeasure at your commentary, you did instigate me to ruminate about social status. For large part of my life my social status and ethnicity was a non-issue to me. If it helps in anyway: My dad is a school teacher in a government school. I have seen a fair share of wrinkles in his face struggling to educate all his children in boarding schools. Ethnicity and social status are different things but I think there is a co-relation coefficient in between them. For example an ex Lahure has a different social status than his brother who joined the Nepal Police.

हिजो सम्म कसैले मेरो परिचय माग्दा म नेपाली भन्थे. मेरो परिचय बुद्ध र सगरमाथा मात्र सिमित थिएन; मेरो परिचयमा नेवारी बाजा, थकाली खाना, मिथिला कला, गोर्खाली बिरता, सोरठी नाच, तामांग सेलो,चितवनका गैडा, हिमाली यार्चागुम्बा सम्पूर्ण नेपाल थियो. यी कुनै सापट लिएका बस्तु नभई मलाई साझा राष्ट्रिय सम्पति लाग्थ्यो र अहिले पनि लाग्छ. तर दुई चार दिन देखि अन्तरमन भित्र अनेकौ प्रस्न उब्जिरहेछन - म को हो र मेरो बास्तविक परिचय के हो भन्ने.

खोइ आझ मलाई म:म पनि खान मन छैन, भैगो बरु बर्गर नै खान्छु. यो नै मेरो जातिय संघियता  बिरुद्ध सांकेतिक बिरोध हो.