Public Awareness

 Media like news papers, public and FM radios, Public TV as well as non-profitable organizations such as NGO can contribute a great deal to public awareness on behalf of the Civil Society of Nepal.

Individuals from all walks of life, particularly the professionals, journalists, lawyers, academicians, writers, social workers play a great role to bring about public awareness on people's civil rights and human rights protection. 

Movement of Civil Society in Nepal must lay a profound foundation in every sectors of Nepali society. It must nurture it as its culture for wider public awareness.     

Poetry:
 
O God, don't thee see from where you've come!
Trace your DNA and see the source of your light,
Within you the embaded atom, with the enigma of electrons
Charged into the chemistries of intelligence,
In the brain cell as the memories of your experience,
Such mysteries lies in you, me and the universe. 

A few weeks before the reinstate of the dissolved Parliament of Nepal there was a research based scholarly presentation program at Columbia University on the present political crises of Nepal. Some of the studies were astoundingly real and reflected the ground reality regarding women and children's civil liberty and living condition.

But one of the professors during his presentation mentioned something I could not make the sense of it. He said "You all know how old is the Gayatri Mantra, millions of years old!"

I could not understand his statement and it really bugled my mind. So I thought I have to make research on this. Then I went to the Internet to find about when humans actually started writing symbols or characters or graphs or scripts

I found at www.en.wikipedia.org/
Writing_system/ that proto-writing began 6600 BC. One million equals one hundred thousands times ten. But millions are a lot more that one million. 

 I understand he was trying to remind the people that the Nepali Hindu tradition is very ancient. But that's out of the context of the research based scholarly studies.

What I am trying to question here is that in our 'New Nepal' which came with the people's mandate for complete Democracy must be rational and must function with logistics of scientific reality.  

Our Nepali social habits are very much superstitiously conditioned with the feudal and oligarchic religious propagandas. Speaking with Hindu family background the Vedic religious practice has very little to do with so called Hindu idol worships and sacrifices.

Veda simply reflects the thoughts of the six schools of thoughts - Samkhya, Vedanta, Yoga, Naya, Mimansa and Uttarmimansa. Veda actually takes the Samkhya as the base of all thoughts of schools thus establishes performance of ritual to respect life that came from Pancha-tatwa, Annu and Pramanu.

Vedic culture is philosophically reach and is not the religion of faith or belief. So is the Buddhism.

Vedic schools of thoughts evolved around 3500 BC. Early Indus scripts were written during this period. Buddhism evolved 2500 BC.

The challenge that 'New Nepal' faces is to how to unconditioned the minds of elites from such propaganda based feudal and oligarchic conditions, values and beliefs.

For example, the caste system indeed does not exist in Vedic literatures. Buddhism denies such system as non-existence on the fact that all life is created equal to live together, to help each other and to love one another.

How come such degeneration in humanity that took place in Hindu feudal society? Is it socio-politically motivated for the kings and elites to rule the ignorant or socio-reality? Why have we taken this for granted without a question for last two hundred and fifty years?

Likewise there are many elements in the minds of elites, security personnel, civil servants densely conditioned with values of feudal and oligarchic governance logistics. One of them will be the difficulty to dismantle the centrally controlled district administration and (police) law enforcement logistics.

If elites of Kathmandu find difficult to trusted the elected members of local assembly to administer the district and villages with complete decentralized system of Democracy then 'New Nepal" will need another Revolution that can wash clean the feudal and oligarchic mentality of primitive Hindu socio-religious set of minds.    

To be continue.... Anon Liberty

“Hey, look up! look up!” the children cried out load. All of a sudden children started jumping out of their open-air classroom of a government run school on the northern slop of one of the resort towns. The teacher too followed them down the hill. Chetan Sharma, Gyan Rai, Saitan Shah and Lila Bohara who had come for a visit from abroad on their holidays watched them from their hotel with great curiosity ‘running school children and their teacher’ in the dark woods away from the army helicopter!

Chetan Sharma said, “You know! This reminds me of my father’s story.” He began, “when my father was a school kid in one of the district head quarters of the far west Nepal.  My father told me that it would take him seven days of walk to reach Indian boarder in order to go to Kathmandu via Indian states of UP and Bihar. That was altogether twelve days hard journey. There were American Peacecorps volunteers who would come to the district on a small plane that would land on tiny airstrip. Whenever, the plane came all the kids of the schools would run down to the airstrip. Schools in the district head quarter would get closed that day."

“Listen to this” he drew the attention of his friends, “my father told me that once in 1960s the whole far western Nepal hit by the drought. People suffered with food storage. The Kathmandu government decided to transport food supply by the plane. Since there was only a tiny airstrip the chief district officer was instructed from above to find a place to build airport for the bigger plane to land. The CDO then called for a big district assembly in the place where airport could be built. Many people of the district gathered with great excitement and curiosity. All district senior leaders had to speak for or against building the airport on the agriculture land according my father that land was not that fertile.”

“Oh! Oh!…my father was really aggravated with one of the speakers” he elaborated, “That he was one of the feudal Panchayat royalists who owned the most of the land and spoke against proposal.  He told to the mass assembly that he could not afford to lose the agriculture land and plane would blow houses of people and hays of the cattle. Audience of assembly hooted him though the public wish for the airport was postponed for indefinite time.”

Chentan said, “You now I trust my father’s story as true.” He concluded, “Since the guy was close to the palace the airport got built after ten years when he died.”

“I cannot believe this” Saitan Shah defended “How come they could not find another place to build the airport?”

“I once visited that place” Chetan Sharma explained “That the place has no plain land expect surrounded by the rocky and thorny hills. Once I flew in the same airport of father’s story, believe or not”

“This sounds like the made up story” Saitan Shah argued.

“Since we grew up in Kathamandu and lived there all our lives except for few years in America it is hard to understand how much people suffer in the villages of Nepal” Lila Bohar tried to support the story of Chetan Sharma.

“When I come to the villages in Nepal” Lila Explained “I realize we are so backward we have not even come out from our basic needs - food, clothes and shelter. We live in poverty with no proper sanitation, water supply! There are no medical in villages! People have to walk miles to reach a hospital! ”

“Come on” Saitan Shah defended “This is Nepal and Nepali people are used to live this way. They do not need sanitation. They can go to the woods. They do not need medicine. They are very strong and immune to diseases.”

“People in village may be” Lila asked “But you are not. You need toilet in Kathmandu, don’t you?”

Saitan Shah kept quiet. “They need at list drinking water, don’t they?” Lila again questioned.

“I do not know what you guys are trying to get at” Saitan ignored the dialogue.

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• Civil Society International
• Civil Society: One World
• Civil Society: Nepal Guide
• UN & Civil Society

• Center for Civil Society
• Civil Society Wikipedia
• Designing Civil Society
• Governance & Civil Society
• Center for Civil Society Studies
• Civil Society Institude

• Part 1: Of the General Characteristics of Human Nature
• Part 2: Of the History of Rude Nations
• Part 3: Of the History of Policy and Arts
• Part 4: Of the Consequences that result from the Advancement of Civil and Commercial Arts
• Part 5: Of the Decline of Nations
• Part 6: Of Corruption and Political Slavery

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