What after the caste based state structuring?

 

The very foundation of Maoist’s decade long insurgency and the ominous victory of the so called, People’s War, is now haunting the very visionaries and thrusting them into the very grave they dug up with the inception of this caste-ethnicity based state structuring. The rebels are no longer mere puppets of the masters enslaved under the gullible manipulation. Now that the slaves have developed their own thought process; they have learned from their masters that voicing vociferously against the state and creating civil unrest, political strife and bandhs will self create a solution out of thin air, hindering nothing except may be creating some economic imbalance, some inconvenience to the timidly resilient public and the imminent food shortages in the country. But the people are resilient to such food crisis as well since half of the population has learned to live off single meal.

The only chant you hum to is Jatiya Pradesh! (It is human psychology to repeat/hum everything you hear monotonously for a long time) Everyone wants a state for him/herself. In the recent future, a situation may surface out from this current event that when siblings grow up into individuals, each with different middle names-for instance, Hari, Man, Lal, Bahadur, Jung and so forth, might as well think about claiming for a state of their own- The Man Rajya, The Lal Rajya, the Bahadur Rajya, The Jung Rajya. (A lame sarcasm I heard from someone mocking the current situation) But at the rate stranger events are emerging today, which were previously nonexistent or unthinkable, who knows this write up might as well incept an idea into some hideous young mind.

So what now from all the unrest that this social turmoil is causing? The only solution would be on the political front. The major constitution-making parties have to promise them something substantive, something that will satiate their urges for collateral damages and total annihilation of the sentiment of Nepali Unity (Bhratritwa). So say, they met the protestors’ demands for caste and ethnicity based segregation of the country, then what? What is it that the protestors want to do with the state?-Reward for their egos?

I guess, I am the only blind person who doesn’t know what purpose it is going to serve my Newar ethnicity if I get a Newar Rajya in the valley. Can I build a fortress out of all the bricks produced in the kiln in the valley and the strong cement imported from the Terrai employing the emigrant workers from other states (different Rajyas) with different ethnicity and belligerently drive away all people from other castes and ethnicities from the capital and party to think that I will not have to go beyond the hills circling the valley of Kathmandu? Can I have Newar substitutes for my friends from all ethnicities? I mean also for the 700 facebook friends- a Newar substitute for each non-newar. I don’t know why these ideas do not appease me.

May be my analysis is wrong and this isn’t what we want from our Newar Rajya. May be we want to discriminate on all imports and exports from the state, locally consumed or otherwise. I mean pay higher perks to local workers and employees, lower taxes for local business owners, higher business mark ups for local businesses, or may be lower prices on daily necessity goods for instate residents and vice versa for everyone else. Well, this is a very good idea to earn some intrinsic benefits for ego satisfaction and extrinsic benefits on consumer goods since we will have an upper hand economically owing to the large influx of out of state non-resident migrants from all over the country. Can we live in seclusion and sustain on our own without cooperation and coordination from all Nepali? Does the prevalent economy discriminate Newars from Brahmins, Chhetris, Magarats, Tharus, Tamangs, Tamuans and the likes? I guess, it may be a new possibility in the future in the form of state segregation we believe in. Unlike the visionary protestors, I simply cannot seem to be able to map the road ahead after such segregation of the country. May be this is the answer to all our woes so far we’ve been subject to since eons. This will probably bring peace, harmony, progress and prosperity in all of our hearts not just our nation.

Amidst all these selfish demands and egotistic protests, we might have forgotten a pretty valid analysis which I have come up with, something I don’t want to be true in the heart against what I hear in the mind. I have questioned myself many times, but my query is still left unanswered. Is it because this is out of context from everything happening around us that we’re dumbstruck by such naïve question or is it the other way round that everyone else is prone to naivety?

Well, I don't know how the Genes in the youngsters growing up today, seeing all the events in Nepal right now, will change their pattern and mold their behaviors, characteristics, emotions, and many more aspects associated to human nature?

The current events in Nepal will only foster violence and addiction, famine and obesity, as per the genetic theory that says, for instance, "A pregnant woman living during a famine or violent uprising will develop a body mechanism that changes the pattern of genes in the unborn and will make the unborn child prone to health diseases like blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, as the genes of that child will develop patterns that guide the body to store all kinds of nutrients without fully utilizing or foster a pattern in the child to be prone to addictions, violence and crimes to name a few.

This trend of conflict and political strife will never end. The minds of the youth, grooming up in this state of the country will have a permanently damaged IMPLICIT MEMORY (study this) and these experiences aid in the performance of similar violent conduct without conscious awareness of those previous experiences. This is what explains why countries who are victims of years of violence, internal conflict and wars will always be trapped in this vicious never ending cycle.

Nepal's future will be doomed, and Nepali leaders' "disdainful" visions of changing Nepal into Switzerland/USA in 20 years will be delayed by another 2 centuries.

This is where I see us being led to by the current culture and if we don’t change our perception of everything around us, we will be enlisted as a failed country. It will be the biggest disgrace for all Nepalese, local and emigrants, and this is a warning call for us and an ominous prelude to the ultimate failure of humanity beckons in the futures.

I hope we don’t fail the beauty of humanity. We are humans because we have emotions and Nepalese have more empathy than anyone I have met from around the world. Have we transmuted from what we used to be and faltered under the contagious disease of the mind called myopia something which is discernibly loud in our visionaries? I bet not!

-        Written By: Romeo Maskey (रोमियो मास्के)

Date- May 20, 2012