By Nav Raj Pokharel
As claimed peaceful, free and largely participated Constitutional Assembly Elections in Nepal on April 10 immediately inducted many naïve and self-effacing persons to power. Their accession to Power was only hope left, with the hope that enigmatic talent of the rustic would provide better inputs in drafting constitution. Who knows? Or, was it so because though rustic and naïve they may be, they are only available party staunches? Who knows?
Hailed form different topography and lowest tiers of society, from different rudimentary professions and proficiencies, the country is assured of better constitution soon. Or, is it merely a spurious drama of constitutional assembly (CA) for nothing at all? Or, a collusion of the key parties to delude the country for some decades more? Because independent, experienced and prudent cluster in the society at home and abroad have expressed dismay over drafting better and sustainable constitution continent upon the naïve nominated CA members is unlikely.
Their presence in a giant six hundred and one-member assembly is likely insignificant and feared of a political encumber for ushering the country towards right direction or precluding situations that can slice off country into many pieces.
I do not see any sloppy in the nominated ones. They are apparent contingent of our society. They are in dire need of uplifted and economic, political, and social gaps bridged and approach of inclusiveness be exercised. If there is some, it is in the heads of those who visualized the meaning of embracing inclusiveness stands for inducting all sorts of brick-a-brac in policy level and claim that spirit of inclusiveness is thus accomplished.
In the country where literacy rate, opportunity for external exposure, socialization process, and predilection for the enterprise and progress is either poor or overshadowed by political and personal ambitions, need of long-term vision and proper inputs for sustainable peace and progress by the rustic party staunch does not simply corroborate with the ambition of conjuring impossible possible.
Even if the need is felt, ways to achieve the desired goal is beyond their expertise. Even the so-called consummate and prolific leaders lack the right vision and expertise of out sourcing to bring the poor and conflict torn country back to normal.
It is why our self-esteemed leaders always articulate higher of the need but remain silent on how the stark need can be resolved. They articulate at the top of their voice, “…There is nothing we can not achieve if we unite together and starve solely for our goal.” Whilst articulating such an impossible conditional approach, they imply to confuse the people that multiparty political system and culture does not prescribe such stern unanimity from the party and people of all sect, cult, and tier of civilization. But helplessly they keep on continuing the same thing again and again. What else do they have to do? They do not know what other innumerable approaches are there to transform a country towards prosperity and peace. I do not blame them for their ignorance as well. They are also a contingent in our dress circle-social-theatre. However, I hold them accountable on two grounds. Firstly, for not being honest to the people for what they are and, secondly, confusing the people deliberately. As if, leaders must be capricious.
If this is what they are doing for long and will continue doing so in the future as well, based on what they have learnt and trained so far. What exactly are they trying to do?
If you mull over them as an analyst and not as a staunch, you can see it. they are just trying to confuse the people and rule. People in power circle do not like to see people start thinking genuinely and intelligently. If people start thinking intelligently, they start rationalizing the means with the goals. They question their need and the means employed to achieve the need. People in power circle do not want questions. They want total obedience. However, they will never pronounce the word obedience even if they mean it.
They will rather term it as discipline. Leaders in different level with different capacity in different position have been misusing the word deliberately. They know that the essence of the word discipline stands for learning process, and not obedience. However, they misuse the word discipline for obedience, to confuse the people. The word disciple denotes the meaning of student who learns. The root of the word derives from Latin root discipulus, means learner – reinforced by disciple- a student.
Before the election, Election to the constitution was taken as panacea. Now the election is over. I do not see or listen any staunch asking question to his/her leaders about it. Is the CA anywhere near to the word now?
A disciple may question the rational of his Guru, the leader. The leader may not have right answer for himself. And leadership has become his profession. Can he neither quit it nor can satisfy his disciple with right answer, nor lead him to right path. What shall he do? Only alternative left for the leaders is to confuse the people. Allot them with dreams, ambitions, promises, and bigger and still bigger promises every time they look at the leaders with a question note. Leaders are guilty of lacking honesty and confusing people.
Gone are the days of Divide and Rule. This is the age of Confuse and Rule. And, no one but the leader knows it better. ##
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Body language caveat
By Nav Raj Pokharel
Human behavior could have been different from what it is now, if the human had been deprived of vocal ability.
Humans’ ability to maneuver vocal communications has put the species at the superlative height among social animals. However, understanding nonverbal communications that humans constantly ooze out like a communicating machine can still bring about a new paradigm shift in understanding human behavior.
One human’s ability to understand another human can be different once we observe his body language at the same time when he speaks.
Body language and language of private distance seep out more than 60 percent clues and underneath intent of a person at particular time, place and situation.
A person who is speaking in front of the audience may be tricky but his body always remains honest. He may ploy to persuade his audience with much fitting and soothing words fetched from far and near and yoked them into the most effectual syntax, his body that is honest and innocent as a child, will underpin whether he is tell the truth.
Read the language the body communicates next time you meet your friend. Your friend may smile at you to impress you that he feels happy to meet you again. If his eyes, too, does not smile when he smiles at you, you will instantly know that he is not as happy as he pretends to be. This enables you to see inside of him as if you are reading his mind.
Body of the human cannot stay being unresponsive when s/he speaks. The body disseminates the real thinking of the person who owns the body. The Human and his body are, as if, two separate living creatures forcefully molded into one human shape, destined to coexist together.
Whatever the person does, the way s/he walks and speaks or maintains silence, the body constantly but unnoticeably involves itself in the process of communication. Therefore, observing the body message of a person, the way he behaves at a particular moment, you can read his real intention.
The bottom line of all this is that you cannot control all of your muscles, and especially the muscles in your face. You cannot avoid sending a constant stream of signals about what you are feeling and thinking, because you are a communicating machine.
Before you dive into trying to control what your body is doing and communicating, consider this: there are more than 600 muscles in the human body.
In your face alone, you have about 90 muscles, 30 of which are there purely to express emotion. Moreover, just do not merely look at the face of the person while he is talking, go beyond it and watch for the message. You will know exactly what the person, who is talking with his boss even maintaining good distance from you, is embrocating for a favour or maintaining social courtesy.
Much aggression, love, sympathy, apathy, mischief, misgiving and signals of intimidation covered under the finesse words can be seen in the face. Disapproving frowns and pursed lips to sneers and full snarls are obvious threats signals coming from facial expression venting anger. The eyes communicate in non-verbal words better.
To have cursory look and occasionally holding it at someone for a period of two or three seconds is quite natural. Holding gaze at some body for five seconds sends signal that he is interested in. More than six second invites trouble, if you are caught looking like that at opposite gender. Try this anywhere if you want to crosscheck its authenticity.
A bored person looks anywhere but not at the person who is talking to him. He finds other things to do. Bored people often repeat actions such as swinging feet, tapping toes or drumming fingers. The repetition may escalate as they try to signal their boredom.
Act of invasion is also important aspect of nonverbal language. Everyone feels comfortable and secure in his/her private space (social distance). Encroaching of the private space is similar to intruding the territory of a nation. Avoid it if you do not want to wage a war.
Invasion is often done under the cloak of familiarity, where they act as if they are being friendly and move into a space reserved for friends, but without being invited. This gives the other person a dilemma of whether to repel a 'friendly' advance or to accept dominance of the other.
Touching to a person is yet another form of invasion. Even touching at social touch zones such as shoulder, arm and back can invite an aggressive reaction at occasion. If you cannot avoid or react to the touch coming from your unsolicited colleagues, friend or seniors, you are likely to fall into their domination differently.
The public zone is generally regarded a distance over 12 feet. We will start to notice other people who are within this radius. The closer they get, the more you become aware and ready yourself for appropriate action.
Within the social zone of 4 to 12 feet in radius, humans start to feel a connection with other people. When they are closer, then they can talk with them without having to shout, but still keep them at a safe distance.
In the personal zone of 1.5 to 4 feet of distance, the conversation gets more direct, and this is a good distance for two people who are talking in earnest about something.
When a person is within arms reach or closer to 1.5 to 0 feet in distance, then s/he can touch the other in intimate ways. You can also see more detail of his/her body language and look into the eyes. Romance of all kinds happens in this space.
One secret of reading body language is to look for things that happen at the same time. Thus if you ask them a searching question and they close their body or pretend they did not quite understand your question, then this may be an indication that they do not want to tell the truth. It may also, mean that they do not like your aggressive style, so you should be aware of your part in the dance and change your style accordingly. ##
Human behavior could have been different from what it is now, if the human had been deprived of vocal ability.
Humans’ ability to maneuver vocal communications has put the species at the superlative height among social animals. However, understanding nonverbal communications that humans constantly ooze out like a communicating machine can still bring about a new paradigm shift in understanding human behavior.
One human’s ability to understand another human can be different once we observe his body language at the same time when he speaks.
Body language and language of private distance seep out more than 60 percent clues and underneath intent of a person at particular time, place and situation.
A person who is speaking in front of the audience may be tricky but his body always remains honest. He may ploy to persuade his audience with much fitting and soothing words fetched from far and near and yoked them into the most effectual syntax, his body that is honest and innocent as a child, will underpin whether he is tell the truth.
Read the language the body communicates next time you meet your friend. Your friend may smile at you to impress you that he feels happy to meet you again. If his eyes, too, does not smile when he smiles at you, you will instantly know that he is not as happy as he pretends to be. This enables you to see inside of him as if you are reading his mind.
Body of the human cannot stay being unresponsive when s/he speaks. The body disseminates the real thinking of the person who owns the body. The Human and his body are, as if, two separate living creatures forcefully molded into one human shape, destined to coexist together.
Whatever the person does, the way s/he walks and speaks or maintains silence, the body constantly but unnoticeably involves itself in the process of communication. Therefore, observing the body message of a person, the way he behaves at a particular moment, you can read his real intention.
The bottom line of all this is that you cannot control all of your muscles, and especially the muscles in your face. You cannot avoid sending a constant stream of signals about what you are feeling and thinking, because you are a communicating machine.
Before you dive into trying to control what your body is doing and communicating, consider this: there are more than 600 muscles in the human body.
In your face alone, you have about 90 muscles, 30 of which are there purely to express emotion. Moreover, just do not merely look at the face of the person while he is talking, go beyond it and watch for the message. You will know exactly what the person, who is talking with his boss even maintaining good distance from you, is embrocating for a favour or maintaining social courtesy.
Much aggression, love, sympathy, apathy, mischief, misgiving and signals of intimidation covered under the finesse words can be seen in the face. Disapproving frowns and pursed lips to sneers and full snarls are obvious threats signals coming from facial expression venting anger. The eyes communicate in non-verbal words better.
To have cursory look and occasionally holding it at someone for a period of two or three seconds is quite natural. Holding gaze at some body for five seconds sends signal that he is interested in. More than six second invites trouble, if you are caught looking like that at opposite gender. Try this anywhere if you want to crosscheck its authenticity.
A bored person looks anywhere but not at the person who is talking to him. He finds other things to do. Bored people often repeat actions such as swinging feet, tapping toes or drumming fingers. The repetition may escalate as they try to signal their boredom.
Act of invasion is also important aspect of nonverbal language. Everyone feels comfortable and secure in his/her private space (social distance). Encroaching of the private space is similar to intruding the territory of a nation. Avoid it if you do not want to wage a war.
Invasion is often done under the cloak of familiarity, where they act as if they are being friendly and move into a space reserved for friends, but without being invited. This gives the other person a dilemma of whether to repel a 'friendly' advance or to accept dominance of the other.
Touching to a person is yet another form of invasion. Even touching at social touch zones such as shoulder, arm and back can invite an aggressive reaction at occasion. If you cannot avoid or react to the touch coming from your unsolicited colleagues, friend or seniors, you are likely to fall into their domination differently.
The public zone is generally regarded a distance over 12 feet. We will start to notice other people who are within this radius. The closer they get, the more you become aware and ready yourself for appropriate action.
Within the social zone of 4 to 12 feet in radius, humans start to feel a connection with other people. When they are closer, then they can talk with them without having to shout, but still keep them at a safe distance.
In the personal zone of 1.5 to 4 feet of distance, the conversation gets more direct, and this is a good distance for two people who are talking in earnest about something.
When a person is within arms reach or closer to 1.5 to 0 feet in distance, then s/he can touch the other in intimate ways. You can also see more detail of his/her body language and look into the eyes. Romance of all kinds happens in this space.
One secret of reading body language is to look for things that happen at the same time. Thus if you ask them a searching question and they close their body or pretend they did not quite understand your question, then this may be an indication that they do not want to tell the truth. It may also, mean that they do not like your aggressive style, so you should be aware of your part in the dance and change your style accordingly. ##
BAD IS SCHOOLING
By Nav Raj Pokharel
Nothing and no institution or mechanism has ever destroyed a man as bad as schooling has in Nepal.
Poor life quality mostly found in the third world countries largely ramifies on bad schooling.
A school, college, or university teach a student to memorize dull information about a lot of subjects they have little or no interest at all. They are given a heavy load, from the morning to evening in the name of teaching them the skill for their life. While doing so they are destroying the talents and intelligence of the human beings.
Everybody is different to each other. Even the twins have different predilections to understand and explain things around them. Their latent potential cannot be honed by implementing one set of teaching technique. If implemented, you are making every one dull and stupid instead of intelligent. However, our education system is implementing the one of the worst teaching methods found in the world.
Our School, college, and universities are producing only non-intelligent dudes in the name of education. Their hackneyed parameters of testing abilities in students are set of questions in between and at the end of session on different subject. They are asked, for an example; who is who or did what in some particular place in some specific year. Or, what is the height of Mount Everest and location of Sahara desert in longitude and latitude. Or, to narrate the probable consequences of global warming. And based on the memorized answers of the nonsense questions, the students are given marks that denote how intelligent a student is.
Have the institutions ever brooded over their gauging stick of intelligence? Are you sure that right answers to those questions make a human intelligent and wrong answer a stupid, a clumsy, a tactless in real life?
On the first day of schooling, a sense of fear is instilled in a child’s mind. Fear of being a gauche if he/she is not able to parroting what the teachers teach them. Intelligence- the inner potential of human being- never thrives when your heart trembles with fear. Second, school does not focus on each and every student based on their ability to learn and subject of interest. Third, students are given notes encouraging them to memorize the information given to them. They never help students to internalize the essence of information and reproduce it in their own language based on the students’ intelligence. If the students feel that they need notes to get into the technicalities of the subject and problem, themselves will prepare notes. Teachers should encourage and guide them in doing so, instead of homework. Students will use their interpretation, reasoning, and intelligence while making notes, and teacher should encourage them to express their view on the subject candidly, and not repressed fear.
Students fear that if their answers are different from teachers’ notes or the textbooks, they will be termed as gauche. Teachers never encourage the students for their creative answer and fresh reasoning of their intelligence towards a perspective and problem.
School, colleges, and universities are hurriedly becoming enterprises where commonplace information is sold to the students. Educational institutions, we have so far except for one or two, are the place where intelligence of the student, in true sense, has nothing to do with. It remains suppressed though out their schooling. Very few people are able to escape the valueless education and preserve their intelligence who passes the school, college, and university under our education system. Most of them come out as educated gauche.
I visualize the educational institution where dormant intelligence in human being is given priority to flourish. Their reasoning faculty is encouraged to develop and teach them how they can gather information on various subject, topic, and issues and understand the real essence of the subject based compatible onto their intelligence. Their boundless potential to interpret, internalizes, re-define the spirit of the subject and issues, and resolve the problems facing them are essence of schooling. In short, their intelligence is given chance to thrive.
When the students have their intelligence honed, they come out as intelligent person and use their intelligence in the area of their interest. They exhibit confidence in life. Then, everybody will love doing what he or she is doing. Their real intelligence will be utilized in their lives and work. Education becomes meaningful to them.
At present, no body is happy. There is tension in the profession they hold. It is because every body is caught in wrong job. Good educationists are forced to opt for politics and persons with political predilection are in business. Most educated gauche are teachers and teaching penchants are put in surveying roads. No one is happy.
Educated people these days are not happy in their work and life. The schooling neither developed their intelligence nor groomed them to love the work they do. The school, college, and university only sold them information of their priority.
Life without intelligence and love is bound to be miserable..
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Nothing and no institution or mechanism has ever destroyed a man as bad as schooling has in Nepal.
Poor life quality mostly found in the third world countries largely ramifies on bad schooling.
A school, college, or university teach a student to memorize dull information about a lot of subjects they have little or no interest at all. They are given a heavy load, from the morning to evening in the name of teaching them the skill for their life. While doing so they are destroying the talents and intelligence of the human beings.
Everybody is different to each other. Even the twins have different predilections to understand and explain things around them. Their latent potential cannot be honed by implementing one set of teaching technique. If implemented, you are making every one dull and stupid instead of intelligent. However, our education system is implementing the one of the worst teaching methods found in the world.
Our School, college, and universities are producing only non-intelligent dudes in the name of education. Their hackneyed parameters of testing abilities in students are set of questions in between and at the end of session on different subject. They are asked, for an example; who is who or did what in some particular place in some specific year. Or, what is the height of Mount Everest and location of Sahara desert in longitude and latitude. Or, to narrate the probable consequences of global warming. And based on the memorized answers of the nonsense questions, the students are given marks that denote how intelligent a student is.
Have the institutions ever brooded over their gauging stick of intelligence? Are you sure that right answers to those questions make a human intelligent and wrong answer a stupid, a clumsy, a tactless in real life?
On the first day of schooling, a sense of fear is instilled in a child’s mind. Fear of being a gauche if he/she is not able to parroting what the teachers teach them. Intelligence- the inner potential of human being- never thrives when your heart trembles with fear. Second, school does not focus on each and every student based on their ability to learn and subject of interest. Third, students are given notes encouraging them to memorize the information given to them. They never help students to internalize the essence of information and reproduce it in their own language based on the students’ intelligence. If the students feel that they need notes to get into the technicalities of the subject and problem, themselves will prepare notes. Teachers should encourage and guide them in doing so, instead of homework. Students will use their interpretation, reasoning, and intelligence while making notes, and teacher should encourage them to express their view on the subject candidly, and not repressed fear.
Students fear that if their answers are different from teachers’ notes or the textbooks, they will be termed as gauche. Teachers never encourage the students for their creative answer and fresh reasoning of their intelligence towards a perspective and problem.
School, colleges, and universities are hurriedly becoming enterprises where commonplace information is sold to the students. Educational institutions, we have so far except for one or two, are the place where intelligence of the student, in true sense, has nothing to do with. It remains suppressed though out their schooling. Very few people are able to escape the valueless education and preserve their intelligence who passes the school, college, and university under our education system. Most of them come out as educated gauche.
I visualize the educational institution where dormant intelligence in human being is given priority to flourish. Their reasoning faculty is encouraged to develop and teach them how they can gather information on various subject, topic, and issues and understand the real essence of the subject based compatible onto their intelligence. Their boundless potential to interpret, internalizes, re-define the spirit of the subject and issues, and resolve the problems facing them are essence of schooling. In short, their intelligence is given chance to thrive.
When the students have their intelligence honed, they come out as intelligent person and use their intelligence in the area of their interest. They exhibit confidence in life. Then, everybody will love doing what he or she is doing. Their real intelligence will be utilized in their lives and work. Education becomes meaningful to them.
At present, no body is happy. There is tension in the profession they hold. It is because every body is caught in wrong job. Good educationists are forced to opt for politics and persons with political predilection are in business. Most educated gauche are teachers and teaching penchants are put in surveying roads. No one is happy.
Educated people these days are not happy in their work and life. The schooling neither developed their intelligence nor groomed them to love the work they do. The school, college, and university only sold them information of their priority.
Life without intelligence and love is bound to be miserable..
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Friday, May 9, 2008
WHEN A BLIND RULES ANOTHER BLIND
By Nav Raj Pokharel
Be it elected or self-appointed ones, the political tycoons impenitently spoil next generation by grooming them not to live and face the challenges at present but to live in tele-world. To condone the problems at present and to think better days ahead is what I mean by living in tele-world. The psychotherapy techniques of assuaging and putting off present wants for future are but socio economic features of Nepalese society handed down through generations. And, leaders still find it an effective tool in ensnarling people to endure the present problems with alacrity, and hope better days ahead.
Even the conscious cluster of society has been cajoled unconsciously to embrace the impact, although the present that should decide the future course of human destiny does not corroborate any positive indicator in availing the promised future. Nothing but different present only can bring about different future. Ignoring the present is disregarding the future. But time and again, we seem to markdown the present and hope for better future. Such a fantasy is achieved only in daydream. Political tycoons are all aware to take advantage of the wide gap the Nepalese seem to believe in their showing, being and doing.
Take these instances, leaders of political parries and kings who reined the people over hundreds of years were able to rule the people of this country only with the promise, and not by the ability to change the present into desired future. People still remember many promises committed by the leaders in the past. The luring promises included peace, prosperity, security health services, education, infrastructure development, employment, and living standard of Nepalese at par with Asian Standard by the year 2000 if they were entrusted to rein the country. Willy-nilly they were entrusted. But the desired changes remained a far cry.
Let me give you another example. People, without an exception, want peace and prosperity at present and are patient, knowing that there is no magic stick to change bad to good in no time. Leaders take advantage of this time frame and rule the country. By the time they step down the government, all the promises they committed become a thing of past. People do not see and feel progress. The cycle repeats. Another leader emerges, another high-sounding promise are made. People unwillingly believe them. And the result is what a pragmatist expects. Progress does not budge and inch forward.
The history is being repeated in front of our eyes. People are once again lured into the promises of history making epoch without a bunch of competent leaders to lead the country in bringing about the changes. Parties and independent leaders talk about beautiful future ahead only if they are given chance to rule the country. They say loud and clear that the country will be ruined and better constitution cannot be written if they are not given mandate in the Constitution Assembly election. Country cannot give power to all of the contesting parties and candidates at a time, meaning that many of the parties and candidates will not assume power. This means the country will not see progress as usual.
If the people do not believe on the parties and their promises splashed into their manifestos and commitments made with the people by holding their hands at the time of election, who else to believe and entrust the power to guide the country. Nepalese party politics and poor people are a unique combination of true mismatch. ##
Be it elected or self-appointed ones, the political tycoons impenitently spoil next generation by grooming them not to live and face the challenges at present but to live in tele-world. To condone the problems at present and to think better days ahead is what I mean by living in tele-world. The psychotherapy techniques of assuaging and putting off present wants for future are but socio economic features of Nepalese society handed down through generations. And, leaders still find it an effective tool in ensnarling people to endure the present problems with alacrity, and hope better days ahead.
Even the conscious cluster of society has been cajoled unconsciously to embrace the impact, although the present that should decide the future course of human destiny does not corroborate any positive indicator in availing the promised future. Nothing but different present only can bring about different future. Ignoring the present is disregarding the future. But time and again, we seem to markdown the present and hope for better future. Such a fantasy is achieved only in daydream. Political tycoons are all aware to take advantage of the wide gap the Nepalese seem to believe in their showing, being and doing.
Take these instances, leaders of political parries and kings who reined the people over hundreds of years were able to rule the people of this country only with the promise, and not by the ability to change the present into desired future. People still remember many promises committed by the leaders in the past. The luring promises included peace, prosperity, security health services, education, infrastructure development, employment, and living standard of Nepalese at par with Asian Standard by the year 2000 if they were entrusted to rein the country. Willy-nilly they were entrusted. But the desired changes remained a far cry.
Let me give you another example. People, without an exception, want peace and prosperity at present and are patient, knowing that there is no magic stick to change bad to good in no time. Leaders take advantage of this time frame and rule the country. By the time they step down the government, all the promises they committed become a thing of past. People do not see and feel progress. The cycle repeats. Another leader emerges, another high-sounding promise are made. People unwillingly believe them. And the result is what a pragmatist expects. Progress does not budge and inch forward.
The history is being repeated in front of our eyes. People are once again lured into the promises of history making epoch without a bunch of competent leaders to lead the country in bringing about the changes. Parties and independent leaders talk about beautiful future ahead only if they are given chance to rule the country. They say loud and clear that the country will be ruined and better constitution cannot be written if they are not given mandate in the Constitution Assembly election. Country cannot give power to all of the contesting parties and candidates at a time, meaning that many of the parties and candidates will not assume power. This means the country will not see progress as usual.
If the people do not believe on the parties and their promises splashed into their manifestos and commitments made with the people by holding their hands at the time of election, who else to believe and entrust the power to guide the country. Nepalese party politics and poor people are a unique combination of true mismatch. ##
Leaders Vs.Hypocrites
By Nav Raj Pokharel
It is why majority of common people believe politics a dirty game.
When you have perfidious key players at top in the politics feeding trepidations in the mind of people for their secured role in future instead of precluding them right in the present , you can only curse on your fate and at most, despise the country for the leaderships she happened to have.
When you see the country lawless just like a jungle, where ascendancy of predation, trepidation and apprehension are at the apex, helplessly you blame your hapless fate and finally capitulate your conscience and future to the quandary leaders who are always busy in calculating their position and strength of bargain based on the deleterious present.
Power moguls in a banana country like Nepal can find many opportunities to feed the naïve, simple and credulous people the dream of peace and prosperity for tomorrow. Bewildered with the incredible promises to be met tomorrow and apprehensions of predation today, people willy-nilly concede to the situations. This is how leaders reign in banana countries over the world.
Leaders distributing ideologies at predatory price are sure to collapse. Only few visionary leaders can save the country and its people but it is once in hundreds of years to have visionary leaders like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kenney, Mandela, King Martin Luther Jr, in the west and, Mahatma Gandhi in the neighboring country in forefront of politics.
Therefore, it seems, it is also some part of good fortune to have visionary leaders when the country need them during her worst time.
Horde of so-called representatives of the people are like you and me, made up with the same genetic, flesh and blood that survives on worldly materials and easily amused of affluence. It is all right with us, for we are not representatives or leaders. However, it should not be so to those who voluntarily opt in to be representatives and leaders of the people and the country. If they are like you and I, (and in fact they are) it is not just anything more than leading a blind by another blind. Both of them are sure fall into the ditch.
Leaders and representatives of the country should not be groomed up the way common public do. They need to feed on worldly materials but they should not live for the worldly pleasures as we common people do, because they are different. They need different skill, a compassionate heart to feel the pain of the people, honest mind, and a strong sense of belief that the profession they have chosen will not give them anything except a sense of satisfaction. Their sole pleasure of living is rested on the pleasure and happiness of the people whose only aspiration is peace, freedom, human rights and prosperity. Leaders sans the natural propensity to be the true servant of the people can never become a leader. They are merely hypocrites.
Nepal has plenty of leaders and representatives. The interim parliament's estimate of more than six hundred representatives for the Constituent Assembly, suggests the number of leaders the small country is going to have only on the central level. But are they groomed up to be the leader? Or, are they simply like you and I, opting political machination for hedonism? The answer is anyone's guess.
A true leader does not instigate problems. He rather precludes the possibility of the problems before they get safer soil to germinate. A hypocrite thrives on the volatile situations. He takes benefit from anything weaker, be it the situation or the people.
A true leader serves the people in true sense. He is honest, selfless and has benevolent heart. His selfless attitude does not bring him plenty of material properties. .And, he is happy for, he knows it.
However, unlike a true and selfless leader, hypocrites crave for hedonism. Their perquisites form the government may be insignificant but from nowhere get richer and richer every year.
Let us assess our leaders with this simple gauge, no, not with anything-particular purpose in hand, but only to verify further if they are what we think, they are. ##
It is why majority of common people believe politics a dirty game.
When you have perfidious key players at top in the politics feeding trepidations in the mind of people for their secured role in future instead of precluding them right in the present , you can only curse on your fate and at most, despise the country for the leaderships she happened to have.
When you see the country lawless just like a jungle, where ascendancy of predation, trepidation and apprehension are at the apex, helplessly you blame your hapless fate and finally capitulate your conscience and future to the quandary leaders who are always busy in calculating their position and strength of bargain based on the deleterious present.
Power moguls in a banana country like Nepal can find many opportunities to feed the naïve, simple and credulous people the dream of peace and prosperity for tomorrow. Bewildered with the incredible promises to be met tomorrow and apprehensions of predation today, people willy-nilly concede to the situations. This is how leaders reign in banana countries over the world.
Leaders distributing ideologies at predatory price are sure to collapse. Only few visionary leaders can save the country and its people but it is once in hundreds of years to have visionary leaders like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kenney, Mandela, King Martin Luther Jr, in the west and, Mahatma Gandhi in the neighboring country in forefront of politics.
Therefore, it seems, it is also some part of good fortune to have visionary leaders when the country need them during her worst time.
Horde of so-called representatives of the people are like you and me, made up with the same genetic, flesh and blood that survives on worldly materials and easily amused of affluence. It is all right with us, for we are not representatives or leaders. However, it should not be so to those who voluntarily opt in to be representatives and leaders of the people and the country. If they are like you and I, (and in fact they are) it is not just anything more than leading a blind by another blind. Both of them are sure fall into the ditch.
Leaders and representatives of the country should not be groomed up the way common public do. They need to feed on worldly materials but they should not live for the worldly pleasures as we common people do, because they are different. They need different skill, a compassionate heart to feel the pain of the people, honest mind, and a strong sense of belief that the profession they have chosen will not give them anything except a sense of satisfaction. Their sole pleasure of living is rested on the pleasure and happiness of the people whose only aspiration is peace, freedom, human rights and prosperity. Leaders sans the natural propensity to be the true servant of the people can never become a leader. They are merely hypocrites.
Nepal has plenty of leaders and representatives. The interim parliament's estimate of more than six hundred representatives for the Constituent Assembly, suggests the number of leaders the small country is going to have only on the central level. But are they groomed up to be the leader? Or, are they simply like you and I, opting political machination for hedonism? The answer is anyone's guess.
A true leader does not instigate problems. He rather precludes the possibility of the problems before they get safer soil to germinate. A hypocrite thrives on the volatile situations. He takes benefit from anything weaker, be it the situation or the people.
A true leader serves the people in true sense. He is honest, selfless and has benevolent heart. His selfless attitude does not bring him plenty of material properties. .And, he is happy for, he knows it.
However, unlike a true and selfless leader, hypocrites crave for hedonism. Their perquisites form the government may be insignificant but from nowhere get richer and richer every year.
Let us assess our leaders with this simple gauge, no, not with anything-particular purpose in hand, but only to verify further if they are what we think, they are. ##
Politics is an entreprise
By Nav Raj Pokharel
The time-proven aphorism, ' example is better than preaching' could be a divineguideline to the leaders who are lost in the political labyrinth 'like a crow in the fog'.
The political gridlock the country is entangled in is not because it is of a serious nature demanding meticulous and prudent strategies to resolve, but it has been deliberately complicated placing the profit-oriented party motif.
It seems every human being has compellingly developed the unique feature of profit-oriented faculty, a skill to fight for survival in the present day complex world. No sector, profession and vocation humankind steps into is spared of the tenacious hold of the motif. It is the part and parcel of human activities.
Everything, including the so-called social service is now considered a business deal, in which takings are of prime concern to the entrepreneurs. Government has become the federation of the political associations where representatives of political entrepreneurs develop strategies for the promotion of their goods and services assembled under their party trademarks and brands.
In the federation, when representation happens to be diverse, shrewd and tactful entrepreneurs form coalition and get business resolutions ratified by the majority.
They are always effortful to remain in the equation that has the upper hand while a deal is struck. They always eye on the dealings that yield hefty margins, incurring loss rarely.
Political gridlock on the report of delineation of constituencies, date for Constituent Assembly polls, republicanism, Melamchi, YCL, and so other issues you mention of public concern are obviously more entwined with the profit concerns of big political business houses.
The principal base for taking decisions on any issues is goaded more by the party interest. Peoples' aspiration, necessity, want and desire are only for the namesake until mounting pressure is poised over their head.
The issues of stand off at the apex politics are but few examples of the party-acumen's apprehension of long-term party plan. Party acumen is more apprehensive of loosing customers if the market is opened for the rival companies.
It seems, commerce follows us like the shadow at every step we tramp and every breath we take. Everybody has turned into an entrepreneur. Noble leaders were urban myth.
Therefore, people now consider the political arena as one of the best sectors where political entrepreneurs swarm, marketing their ideology. Once successful, it gives them more than anything they would have gained from other sectors, if pursued.
Politics can avail one with the power to control over the state machinery at one's will; giving the power like that of the God to control over human activities as well as generating prosperity. That is why influential politicians and their parties harvest rich every time they are in power. I deduce it is the superlative form of all businesses devised on the earth so far.
So, like that of business rivalries leaders of different parties rival among themselves to popularize their brands in the market with advertisements inoculating the people to choose their companies and services.
Have the big rival industrialists ever reached a consensus over producing same merchandise under one brand name? I have not found such understanding reached anywhere down the annals of history so far, even if the size of the market is small.
However, history has ample records of merger of similar companies, take over of management of other companies, coup d'état and illicit interventions in the markets by powerful business tycoons.
Viewed from this spectrum, is the impasse of political parties not exactly the same rivalries of the business world? Immediate declaration of republicanism will equip some political entrepreneurs with strategic victory in future, which to some others is sure to incur loss. To recognize the peoples' mandate through the first meeting of the constituent assembly on the so-called crucial issues could be diverged from what it has been speculated. This prompts the political entrepreneurs prefer to remain inconclusive rather than decisive.
Whatever the political entrepreneurs' gambit may be, they need to be sensitive for the rest of the real political, administrative and other socio-economic problems innocent people of this country are facing, owing to the gridlock at the top brass enterprises.
At this juncture, people want the political parties to exhibit more accountability for social responsibility in entrepreneurship.
Scholars and intellectuals through their writings; professionals and technocrats through their actions, various sections of the society through their protests and the common people through their wilting-heads are urging the political parties to rise above petty party interests. They suggest, "Keep the rivalries aside for some time and help the general life return to normalcy , make the place suitable for civilized people to live in, do away with all sorts of terror, extortion and intimidation and give people good time to live while they enjoy their tenure in the federation." Set an example for the future entrepreneurs to follow.
The time-proven aphorism, ' example is better than preaching' could be a divineguideline to the leaders who are lost in the political labyrinth 'like a crow in the fog'.
The political gridlock the country is entangled in is not because it is of a serious nature demanding meticulous and prudent strategies to resolve, but it has been deliberately complicated placing the profit-oriented party motif.
It seems every human being has compellingly developed the unique feature of profit-oriented faculty, a skill to fight for survival in the present day complex world. No sector, profession and vocation humankind steps into is spared of the tenacious hold of the motif. It is the part and parcel of human activities.
Everything, including the so-called social service is now considered a business deal, in which takings are of prime concern to the entrepreneurs. Government has become the federation of the political associations where representatives of political entrepreneurs develop strategies for the promotion of their goods and services assembled under their party trademarks and brands.
In the federation, when representation happens to be diverse, shrewd and tactful entrepreneurs form coalition and get business resolutions ratified by the majority.
They are always effortful to remain in the equation that has the upper hand while a deal is struck. They always eye on the dealings that yield hefty margins, incurring loss rarely.
Political gridlock on the report of delineation of constituencies, date for Constituent Assembly polls, republicanism, Melamchi, YCL, and so other issues you mention of public concern are obviously more entwined with the profit concerns of big political business houses.
The principal base for taking decisions on any issues is goaded more by the party interest. Peoples' aspiration, necessity, want and desire are only for the namesake until mounting pressure is poised over their head.
The issues of stand off at the apex politics are but few examples of the party-acumen's apprehension of long-term party plan. Party acumen is more apprehensive of loosing customers if the market is opened for the rival companies.
It seems, commerce follows us like the shadow at every step we tramp and every breath we take. Everybody has turned into an entrepreneur. Noble leaders were urban myth.
Therefore, people now consider the political arena as one of the best sectors where political entrepreneurs swarm, marketing their ideology. Once successful, it gives them more than anything they would have gained from other sectors, if pursued.
Politics can avail one with the power to control over the state machinery at one's will; giving the power like that of the God to control over human activities as well as generating prosperity. That is why influential politicians and their parties harvest rich every time they are in power. I deduce it is the superlative form of all businesses devised on the earth so far.
So, like that of business rivalries leaders of different parties rival among themselves to popularize their brands in the market with advertisements inoculating the people to choose their companies and services.
Have the big rival industrialists ever reached a consensus over producing same merchandise under one brand name? I have not found such understanding reached anywhere down the annals of history so far, even if the size of the market is small.
However, history has ample records of merger of similar companies, take over of management of other companies, coup d'état and illicit interventions in the markets by powerful business tycoons.
Viewed from this spectrum, is the impasse of political parties not exactly the same rivalries of the business world? Immediate declaration of republicanism will equip some political entrepreneurs with strategic victory in future, which to some others is sure to incur loss. To recognize the peoples' mandate through the first meeting of the constituent assembly on the so-called crucial issues could be diverged from what it has been speculated. This prompts the political entrepreneurs prefer to remain inconclusive rather than decisive.
Whatever the political entrepreneurs' gambit may be, they need to be sensitive for the rest of the real political, administrative and other socio-economic problems innocent people of this country are facing, owing to the gridlock at the top brass enterprises.
At this juncture, people want the political parties to exhibit more accountability for social responsibility in entrepreneurship.
Scholars and intellectuals through their writings; professionals and technocrats through their actions, various sections of the society through their protests and the common people through their wilting-heads are urging the political parties to rise above petty party interests. They suggest, "Keep the rivalries aside for some time and help the general life return to normalcy , make the place suitable for civilized people to live in, do away with all sorts of terror, extortion and intimidation and give people good time to live while they enjoy their tenure in the federation." Set an example for the future entrepreneurs to follow.
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