"Enough is really enough!"

By Nav Raj Pokharel

It was exciting moment to have seen the busiest roads in the capital free of traffic, to have breathed in the fresh air without any smell of petrol and pollution, to have felt a kind of peaceful silence in the environment without honking of horns and screeching of tires, seen people hustling and bustling on the roads, scurrying to catch the public transports, as it was a rare occasion to witness the impact of the call of Banda few years back in Kathmandu.

Now, the story has been upside down. Those rare and exciting moments are more than enough. The Banda has virtually not only tripled the regular 104 days of holidays (Saturdays and Sundays) in a year; but also crippled the economy of the country and the lives of people on the top of it . Now, people again want to see those regular activities in every walks of lives; suggestive it a symbol of normality, as almost every day the call of Banda has swapped it away.

The change is so sudden and should have been shocking to the people of all the walks of lives including the politicians. But to my astonishment it is not so. People, including the politicians, I realize now, have even the greater ability to make over him to the newer milieu. Perhaps they know their doomed fate is not going to change so easily. They must get themselves changed instead. It seems that the Darwinian theory of 18th century 'the survival of the fittest' is equally applicable to us even though we boast of entering in the 21st century.

People are now no more in illusion that the state-machinery is sturdy and capable to exercise anything to overcome the malfunctioning situation prevailed in the country.

People seem to know the reality that keeping quite and withstanding the brunt of problems is the last weapon left for them if they want to die a natural death, but not by the hand of other fellow men.

It is that's why when ever there is yet another call of strike they seem to accept it on the surface level that as if it were the normal part of their lives. But in the deeper level it is not so. The annals of history have evidence to support this point.

The pressure put to the lives of people has always yielded reimbursement. It is only a matter of time. This 'time-duration' is relative to the endurance capability of the people. To some people, the duration, this time, may seem a bit longer.

Sociologists and political-psychoanalysts now pin down it that shortly and with almost so futile a reason at hand the long suppressed distress, suffering, pains, misery and affliction is to surface at any point of time. After all there is limit for everything. When it is enough, it is really enough.