Posted by: Nepe November 7, 2004
Press Release from CPN Maoist
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GP ji, I used the adjective khusket, but accompanied with the interpretation as 'one who is unable to make distinction between different things'. So it was not a name calling. It was a characterization. By saying I was defending the Maoists, you presented one more example of your 'inability to make distinction between different things'. Defending the Maoists and defending the facts about the Maoists are not the same thing. It is the same thing only to a khusket. This was in case I was defending the facts about the Maoists. However, I was not even doing that. Unlike you, I do not know exact facts and figures about the Maoists. However, if you ask me, I think, based on all the indications, their physical strength is increasing day by day ever since they launched their war because of lack of a competitor with progressive agendas (a good old Congressi Ram Chandra Poudel was saying something in this effect recently !). However, the emergence and vocal expression of pro-democratic republican civil society and youth which has by its own virtue a moral superiority over them has been a serious challenge to whatever legitimacy they had. And as I emphasized earlier, strengthening this new force is the only way to defeat the Maoists. All other options are self-defeating. I do not expect you to understand this given the limitation of thinking you have shown. So don't feel forced to reply. I will be perfectly fine if you keep me calling a Maoist supporter. It would have been an insult to me, had it been from an ordinary person. But from you, it is an honor. Besides, you have compensated it by calling me a good poet. It is another fact that I can prove that I am not a good poet (This is with a little sarcasm at myself. I am just coming from DC participating in a poetry competition but failing to bag any of three awards and that among just eleven competitors !) I am a little bit tired. I will reply to Ashu sometime tomorrow. Good night !
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