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Going away DEVAKI BISTA hile the western plains are getting JUST DO IT back to normal, the violence in the EDITORIAL PAGE 2 Weastern Tarai shows no signs of subsiding. Four more protesters were killed Point of no return on Wednesday, bringing the total killed in the BY THE WAY past month to 33. That evening, top leaders BY ANURAG ACHARYA PAGE 4 in Kathmandu invited dissatisfied groups for talks. Madhesi leaders met in Bhairawa on Madhes masochism Thursday to demand withdrawal of the Army, COMMENT implementation of past deals and treatment BY JIVESH JHA PAGE 5 of wounded protesters. FUTURE IMPERFECT: Police beat up a protester trying to block the East-West Highway The three parties must try harder to Left, right and centre in Lahan on Thursday, while on the same day Madhesi youth line up for documents at get dissidents on board before they pass BETWEEN THE LINES the Police office in Kathmandu (above) so they can go abroad for work. BY TSERING D GURUNG PAGE the constitution. Symbolic gestures matter 6 DILIP SINGH as much as meaningful concessions. An inclusive constitution that lays the foundation PROFILE OF SANDUK RUIT page 7 for a just and democratic Nepal is within A NEW grasp, but needs urgent confidence-building measures. The constitution should not be INSIDE VISION REVIEW OF SECOND SUNS page 9 a document that pushes the country into another violent multi-ethnic conflict, but one FOR CORNEA TRANSPLANTS that ensures true devolution for peace and page 10-11 prosperity. NEPAL 2 EDITORIAL 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775

the fast-track agreement, the NC, UML and the main Maoists pushed ahead with debating the draft in the Constituent Assembly this week. The process is fraught because this hurried draft is neither inclusive nor sustainable. It may be true, as the government argues, that this is the best that can be expected after eight years of deadlocked negotiations. But the boundaries appear to be an exercise in electoral gerrymandering more than a blueprint for stability and prosperity. The aboriginal Tharu community feels particularly overlooked by the boundaries that have been drawn. The whole premise about this constitution is all wrong: the top guns from the three main parties are trying to bulldoze the document through because they are in a hurry to form a new government. Under a backroom deal, Prime Minister Sushil Koirala is supposed to step down after the constitution to make way for the UML’s K P Oli. Pushpa Kamal Dahal probably has the promise of a high-profile position. It is truly tragic that a document that has such JUST DO IT importance for the future of Nepal is being decided on the basis of such short-term power play. Oli figures that the current level of violence in the Tarai A new constitution that lays is containable and he can fix things once he becomes prime minister, address the demands of the plains-based and the foundation for a just, indigenous parties, resolve the crisis, and take full credit for rescuing the country from the brink. But that is a dangerous democratic and prosperous gamble. Anger is rising among the disenfranchised in the Nepal is within grasp, but plains and among indigenous ethnicities which feel that their demands for political autonomy are being ignored by it first needs confidence- the political class in Kathmandu. Nepalis have suffered enough from a decade of war, building measures another decade waiting for a peace dividend that never materialised, and then this year’s devastating earthquake. The last thing we need is for ethnic and communal tensions riting an inclusive, democratic constitution was they were not completely feckless. On 8 May, the four of to flare up over the constitution. A note of caution for supposed to be the final chapter in the country’s the main political forces in the governing coalition and the outsiders meddling in the Tarai right now: it is not making Wpeace process, which has now lasted nearly as long opposition struck a deal that they would form a national Nepal more stable. as the conflict. In the past decade, Nepal has gone from war unity government after the constitution was promulgated. The three parties must try harder to get dissidents on to peace, from a monarchy to republic, the former guerrillas However, the draft they rushed to the Assembly had board before they pass the constitution all by themselves have been disarmed and demobilised and some integrated major flaws: clauses treated women as second class as they are planning to do by 21 September. Symbolic into the national army to serve in UN peacekeeping. citizens, it left loopholes to muzzle the media, and didn’t gestures do matter, and so do meaningful concessions. The The Maoists waged war for a new constitution that satisfy the demands for greater autonomy from the leaders gap between the two sides on federal boundaries is not very would ensure equality, social justice and devolution of of the Madhesi and other marginalised ethnicities. These difficult to resolve, the Tharus can be convinced to move political power from Kathmandu to people who had been groups were particularly incensed that when the number of three Kailali constituencies to Province 5 and Province 2 historically excluded from decision-making. And that is provinces went from 8 to 6 and then 7, it left them out. can be extended eastwards. where things have been stuck: despite two elections for a Violent protests then broke out in different parts of the A new constitution that lays the foundation for a just, Constituent Assembly to draft the constitution, negotiations country, and 35 people have been killed in the past four democratic and prosperous Nepal is within grasp. But first on its content have been deadlocked, mainly over the issue weeks – including eight policemen who were lynched in it needs confidence-building measures for trust, and then of how many federal states there should be and what they Kailali on 24 August by Maoists who had infiltrated the the political will to move forward together without leaving should be called. Tharu protest. Large swathes of the country have now been anyone behind. Under fire for delayed earthquake relief, politicians shut down or are under curfew for nearly a month, blocking The constitution should not be a document that pushes in Kathmandu tried to redeem themselves by putting the country’s trade lifeline with India. the country into another violent multi-ethnic conflict, but constitution-writing on a “fast track” to show voters that The MJF-D having quit the four-party group that signed one that ensures true devolution for peace and prosperity.

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CONSTITUTION suffer. Bloodshed, violence and AFFIRMATIVE ACTION People all over the world fi nd THIS WEEK Those who are pleading to accept a riots have never produced results to Nepal should have reservations based Nepal interesting. Capitalise on this regressive constitution are actually anyone`s benefi t. not on caste and tribe but economic for tourism and exports. An overall complicit in the crimes against Nyas Yadav status (‘Lessons from India’s Patel strategy is needed. the nation (‘Open and shut case’, movement’, Om Astha Rai, #774). If David Seddon Editorial, #774). FEDERALISATION FOLLY Nepal follows India’s example, it will be Mukesh The writer seems to misunderstand divided. FOREIGN HELP federalism. (‘The federalisation folly’, Sukhoi Dr Wan Shaw Pong, thank you Most liked on Facebook Every nation will use force to Bihari K Shrestha, #774). It does not for this extremely generous and Rights activists demand equal protect civil order. Unarmed protestors mean dividing the country but rather The Patel movement was not an anti- touching gesture. (‘Help from far’, representation of women in the new constitution is a lie. These protestors were armed devolving power from the centre to reservation movement. It was actually Sarthak M Sharma, #774). It is on Wednesday at Baneshwor by Gopen Rai (85 likes) and had murderous intent. I do not other parts of the country. Federalism pro-reservation, i.e. Patels wanted to when the people of Nepal are truly hold the collective group responsible- is a mechanism that makes it possible be included. But you are right in saying in trouble that people like you help. Most popular on Twitter not the entire Tharu community, but for every person who makes up that those at the top within ethnic groups I am certain Nepal will get through Nepal’s tennis sisters by Sonia Awale certainly those who showed up. These Nepal’s mosaic to live in dignity. It don’t need reservations. Dalits and this rough patch and will always Most visited online page are volatile and fl uid situations which allows people to break free from Review of Garden Tea House by Khanchuwa highly marginalised ethnic groups do, remember its well-wishers. (1,013 views) are exacerbated with malefi cent social and religious barriers and and so do underprivileged Bahuns and M. Akram Khan Most commented leadership. promote equitable development of the Chhetris. Without affi rmative action, Any means necessary by Bidushi Dhungel Nam country. marginalised groups will be even more DISCONNECT AND DISCONTENT Gagan marginalised. Segregation is by no means As an old saying in Sanskrit R Rai an answer to Nepal’s inherent Weekly Internet Poll #775 puts it, the more you delay, the Nepal needs a truly democratic problems. (‘Disconnect and Q. Should consumption and cultivation of cannabis be legalised? further away you get from the setup where every person irrespective This is the best article on the topic discontent’, Tsering D Gurung, original objective. (‘Birthing a new of caste, ethnicity, religion, and so I have read in the context of Nepal. We #773). Segregation based Total votes: 121 constitution’, David Seddon, #774) forth has equal rights and equal voice. need history books on these issues. on ethnicity and religion is an Namah Slicing and dicing the country into any Ravi Raj Kaur even more slippery slope, and number of subgroups (especially if sometimes I think that’s precisely I understand the concerns of the such subgroups are likely to accord MINI-NEPAL the reason why politicians covet minorities but burning vehicles and disharmony) will be counterproductive If only we could rebuild as quickly as they it. This allows them to further Weekly Internet Poll #776 vandalising public property is not the in the long-run development and set the pavilion for the expo (‘Mini-Nepal manipulate people’s “demands” for To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com solution. This will only sow seeds of prosperity of the nation. in Milan’, Sushila Budhathoki, #774). their own benefi ts. Q. Should the constitution drafting process be hatred in the minds of others who Nepali Shiwani Neupane XOXO halted ?

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Police, and the jurisdiction dispute between Nepal Police and Armed Police Force could have Point of no return been one of the reasons for the Tikapur killing of eight policemen and a child. Unless both sides pause and find mutual terms of agreement, Tharu CA member Rukmini Chaudhary had warned about we are headed for a dangerous collision in the Tarai protests turning violent when I met her in Kailali last month. t has become a daily ritual “So far, it has been peaceful now: learning of the rising but as the street gets radicalised Ideath toll in protests in the and outsiders infiltrate protests, Madhes. Four protesters gunned leaders will stop leading and the down by police in Mahottari, crowd will stop following.” As the dozens injured. A 60-year- events in Tikapur showed, those old man shot dead in Saptari. were prophetic words. Twenty injured in Biratnagar as The violence in the Madhes, demonstrators tried to burn down the police crackdown and military a border check post. mobilisation has antagonised an already agitated local population, threatening to drag the entire region into a spiral of violence. To be sure, the deployment of security forces has helped to prevent mob rage and vandalism in many places. But Prime BY THE WAY Minister Koirala should know that Anurag Acharya when the number of heads pouring onto the streets outnumbers Streets of the 20 Tarai districts bullets and batons, police and look like a war zone with logs soldiers cannot contain it. and stones and bricks strewn Jitendra Thakur of Gorkhapatra along roads. Charred remains daily, who was beaten up by of torched vehicles dot the protesters on Wednesday’s clashes highways. At least nine districts in Morang recounted the horror remain under curfew. The Nepal to me: “I kept telling them in

Army is still out in Kailali and DEVAKI BISTA Maithali, I am a journalist and Parsa. The month-long agitation a Madhesi, some of them even has now claimed 34 lives. In but those in UCPN(M) have met leader from the NC, represents engage with protesters. With recognised me. But they continued Janakpur, protesters have torched Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal the moderate voice of the the moderate leaders from to beat us up. I am really worried, government offices and about and warned of a boycott. Madhes and was among his mainstream parties abandoning things could get much more 1,000 vehicles from eastern Nepal For a Constituent Assembly party’s CA members who met the process, there is a looming violent here.” are stranded in Sunsari and of 601, these numbers may still Prime Minister Sushil Koirala on fear of an extremist upsurge in A senior NC leader in Siraha. Many buses and trucks not add up to much, but if one Tuesday. He had strong words Madhes. The appeal by Jwala Kathmandu describes the Prime have been set on fire. Yet, Home considers the composition of CA when we met him this week: Singh’s armed group last week Minister’s lack of leadership is like Minister Bam Dev Gautam tells us then a mass exodus of Madhesi “For Madhesis and Tharus from with a rabble-rousing appeal is a the tail wagging the dog. “He is that things are “under control”. and Tharu lawmakers from the Jhapa to Kanchanpur, there is no worrying sign. neither leading the government or The Tarai agitation has house raises serious questions alternative but to continue with It is not as if the protests the constitution drafting process.” reverberated in the Constituent on the legitimacy of the ongoing the movement. It has reached turned violent overnight in Tarai And the man really in charge Assembly in Kathmandu as well. process. a point of no return. From here districts. It has been building is UML Chair KP Oli, it is his So far, 82 lawmakers from 12 Earlier this week, CA on, the CA will either pause and up, and the government had a ambition to be prime minister that political parties, including Bijay Chairman Subhas Chandra engage with our genuine demands clear intelligence warning about is dragging this on. Gachhadar-led Madhesi Morcha Nembang told us that the or trample over our bodies to infiltration of ex-combatants in Unless Koirala acts quickly and independent lawmakers have constitution-drafting process declare an unjust constitution.” Kailali on 24 August. Even before to de-escalate tensions by halting walked out of the constitution- had entered a “narrow tunnel” The NC has the most violence erupted in Parsa and the constitution process and drafting process. Another 24 in which there was no room for lawmakers, with 51 of them Rautahat, the local administration engages with the disgruntled Nepali Congress lawmakers, maneuvering, and there was no directly elected, but it is on the had alerted the ministry. constituencies including Tharus, mostly Madhesis and Tharus, are alternative but to head towards verge of imploding as senior But there is a lack of Madhesis, women and Dalits, threatening a walk-out. UML’s the light at the end. But is it a leaders, and not just Madhesis coordination within the security Nepal’s constitutional exercise is 37 directly-elected Madhesi and light, or a conflagration? and Tharus, have warned of apparatus. The Home Minister doomed to fail again. Tharu lawmakers are wavering, Surendra Chaudary, a Tharu a walk-out if the party fails to had a public spat with IG of @Anurag_Acharya 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 BUSINESS 5 BIZ BRIEFS Masochism in the Madhes Flydubai discounts The agitation in the Madhes will not lead the Madhesi people anywhere Flydubai has announced it will now off er customers a 30% discount their ‘just cause of the oppressed in its business and economy class people of the Madhes’. fares to Dubai and other select destinations. The discount applies to customers The leaders and the NGOs who plan to travel between 1 October 2015 and 30 June 2016. are selling a utopian dream of how the Madhes will be Security check transformed into an economic Green Tick recently organised an interaction programme dreamland if only the plains along with a Germany-based consulting group, TUV can be an autonomous province. Rhineland, to raise awareness on security problems in And the way to achieve this is information systems. Participants included IT experts from banks, data centres by rousing communal hatred and internet service providers. against the hills, highlighting SHYAM GUPTA the failure of the Nepali state to n order to exert pressure on to exert pressure on the Nepali address Tarai livelihoods, and the Students awarded the Nepali establishment in establishment? If so, the Madhesi discrimination against Madhesis British Council Nepal recently handed IKathmandu, the soil of Madhes people will be the biggest losers. in the hills. Some of this is true, out IELTS Awards to two students, has become ground zero for violent The fertile soil of the but it all rings a bit hollow when Omkar Kandel Prabesh and Pujyata protests in which the Madhesi Madhes has been the cradle the president, vice-president Karmacharya. They will each receive Rs 480,000 to pay for their college people themselves have suffered of civilisations past, and the and many national leaders in education. the most. nativity site of our gods and Kathmandu are Madhesis. It is unclear to the leaders goddesses: Lord Rama, King Many Madhesis are smart Dish cuts costs themselves what they are Janak, Sita, Gautam Buddha and enough to see right through Dish Home recently announced a Rs 3000 discount on its fighting for, except the general the philosopher Kumaribhatta. all this. But many others are Dish Home HD Connection. Current users are also entitled feeling of traditional neglect and Of the six Sanskrit philosophies, not, and given the joblessness to a “heavy bonus” on recharge above Rs 2000. lack of respect by the rulers in five emerged from the Mithila and economic frustrations of Kathmandu. In the Tarai towns region of the central Tarai. especially young Madhesis, there Ford’s month today, we see strangers, nameless Today, the sacred town of is anger there that can easily be Ford has announced this month as its FORD Global faces using uncharacteristic Janakpur, where goddess Sita was stoked. For years, the real sons Caring Month. As part of its celebrations, Ford has violence. Who are these people? born, has become the epicenter and daughters of the Madhes organised tree plantations and has also announced its Which unseen power sponsors of the current Madhes struggle. worked to their bones to nurture plans to rebuild a school in Nuwakot. them? People are facing great hardships their soil to grow bountiful as the whole region has been harvests. The Madhesis are even shut down now for more than more worried than people in a month. Demonstrations for Kathmandu about the influx of Madhesi rights are led by newer settlers from Bihar and stone-pelting strangers whose Uttar Pradesh. aggressiveness surprises even the It’s the politicians which organisers of the protests. allowed this to pad up their COMMENT The humbled Madhesi vote banks, and that is what Jivesh Jha leaders are looking more and the Madhes should be agitating more like those from Nepal’s about. It is disastrous and suicidal The Madhesi leadership has other mainstream parties. Their for the Madhes to make the asserted on many occasions leaders have squandered every movement violent, and to drive that the movement is no more opportunity to uplift their hill settlers out. Let’s think twice under their control. If so, whose constituencies when they were where are we going, who our real control is it under, and to what in power in Kathmandu. Now enemies are. Let’s build solidarity end? Who are those people on thoroughly discredited in the with fellow-Nepalis. Let’s try to the streets of Birganj, Gaur, eyes of their own people, they make sure that there is no anti- Janakpur and Tikapur? No one want to be in power again, and Madhes backlash in the hills seems to recognise them. And this is what this game is all from this violence because that is why are the protests most violent about – to enhance their political exactly what the agitators want. in demonstrations organised by bargaining power in the name of Both the administration and Madhesi leaders who lost the 2013 autonomy for the Madhes. the Madhesi leaders should take elections? So, they get their agitation initiatives to build bridges instead The unspoken belief is that crowd-funded, mainly from of burning them. Let’s stop this the violence is being perpetrated across the border. It’s not just masochistic madness in the by hired goons from across the the Madhesi politicians who are Madhes, it benefits no one, least of southern border. In fact, go to any provoking this agitation for their all the people of the Nepal Tarai. border town today and everyone political survival. Let’s not name is convinced about it. But why? names, but NGOs and activists The author is a Kathmandu Who benefits from the communal are willfully pouring oil on the University graduate. He is hatred that is being fanned in fires so that they can source currently studying law in the plains against the hills? Is it funding from naïve donors for Dehradun, India. 6 OPINION 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 Left, right and centre Polarisation in the Nepali media is becoming a part of the problem

hances of having statute Comprehensive Peace paper, have been supportive of in accord slim', read Agreement in 2006 is a prime the current government’s moves ‘C the banner headline on example. Newspapers and TV on the drafting process, and an English language paper in channels all hailed the deal pushing for a timely constitution Kathmandu this week. Its sister as ‘historic’, signs of progress regardless of dissenting voices. paper in Nepali on the same day and democracy in the country. Then there are others who had the headline: ‘Constitution Reports following the peace seem to be more aligned with by September planned’. A page 1 accord were more or less with those parties that lost badly in story on another paper said: ‘All uniformity regardless of who the the CA-2 election. These have doors closed for new talks’. publishers were. been extremely, and sometimes If the contrasting headlines That’s not the case anymore. needlessly, critical of the state confuse you, you are not alone. Since the constitution and of the draft constitution. writing process began and While the mainstream following the dissolution of reporters haven’t actually the first constituent assembly, been fabricating stories, their the gap between newsrooms selection of what to cover and in Kathmandu has grown the slant that conforms to their -- reflecting the political political agenda and editorial BETWEEN THE polarisation and the ideological line is a worrying trend. By LINES battles of the left and right. limiting space to include only Tsering Dolker Gurung the big papers. But who has the on social media, we prefer to The publishers’ stance views that match one’s own, time for that? engage amongst members manifests itself in the newsroom, the media has left no common For many of us, our daily of closed groups, shutting off widening the gap on the debate ground for opposing views to Given the wide gap in the dose of news still comes from dialogue and fragmenting public on the constitution, for instance. come together, perpetuating coverage of the constitution- a single source: a newspaper opinion. All this became much more stark society’s divisions. writing process and politics in we subscribe to and when the Polarisation in journalism after the violence in Kailali on The formation of these the national media, it’s becoming editorial of the paper is skewed doesn’t just happen in Nepal, of 24 August. While those leaning ideological ghettos result in each increasingly difficult for an in favour of a particular group course. In the UK the Guardian towards the left underplayed ground taking a more extreme average reader to make head or or political ideology, we are and the Telegraph represent the incident, and shaped the political position and an overall tail of the news, let alone the op- influenced by a single narrative. two ends of the political narrative to emphasise the root polarised political discourse. eds. The partisan interests of the The bias of the paper gets rubbed spectrum. In the US it is Fox causes of Tharu ire, the right- In the end, individual news media, the political alignment onto the reader, resulting in news and MSNBC. Save for leaning chose to report on the items may be scrupulously of its editors and the bias of its audience segmentation. Those few propagandist tabloids and brutality of the lynchings and accurate on facts, but as a whole, reporters are blatantly on display. who adhere to the paper’s views news channels, the Nepali news the murder of a baby. they may be missing a balance. It has come to the stage where have their beliefs reinforced and media, had so far escaped being If you read, listen and watch And that can only hurt the you cannot grasp the complete become more extreme in their pigeon-holed. The centre was the news today, it isn’t so hard to credibility of the journalists and picture of what is happening in thoughts, those who don’t switch position most chose to keep. see which party line the paper their media outlets. the country without scanning all to another one. Just like cliques The coverage of the is toeing. Some, including this @Chenreeyang The monsoon does look like it is making an early exit. But, it could be a false alarm. We have seen in previous years that there have been extreme precipitation events long after the rainy season is formally over. These are mostly linked to autumn cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. We don’t see any low pressure trough so far on satellite pictures but we must keep a look out. The westerlies are asserting themselves and prevailing over the south-west monsoon which is the reason for the dry spell of the past week. However, we can expect some afternoon buildup and light night rain over the weekend KKATHMANDUATHMANDU in places. Minimum temperature is also down a notch. FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 27° 28° 28° #775 11 - 17 September 2015 18° 18° 17°

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uch has already been said about When Ruit returned, he worked as a affordable operation which enables prompt and emergency medical treatment with Sanduk Ruit, pioneer eye surgeon general practitioner at the Nepal Eye Hospital recovery was going to change the lives of funds raised in Nepal and abroad. Most Mand Magsaysay Prize winner who where he understood that curing eye disease tens of thousands of patients who had lost recently, Ruit is working with Pilachhen has done Nepal proud. He developed an could improve people’s lives. He decided to their sight. Conservation to restore several heritage sites affordable surgery technique to enable tens of specialise in ophthalmology in New Delhi. Ruit soon understood that goodwill in Kathmandu that were destroyed during thousands of underprivileged people around “I saw the poverty and understood the and commitment were not enough. “Some the quake. the world to see again. need of Nepalis,” he explains. He started thought we were mad, wondering how a For a man who has achieved so The story of Ruit’s life (see review, page looking for cost-effective ways to make country like Nepal can provide such medical much, and is an international celebrity, 12) is an inspirational one, of a young boy people who had gone blind due to cataract services,” he remembers. “So we had to Ruit is down-to-earth and humble about from one of Nepal’s remotest areas who see again. formalise our technique and publish many his accomplishments. “We are good showed what hard work, determination and Ruit, who believes in destiny, says he articles in international medical journals.” ambassadors for Nepal abroad,” he says vision can achieve. This story is specially was lucky to meet ‘interesting people’ who Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology (TIO) with characteristic modesty. “All this has relevant at a time when Nepalis are fighting helped him in his mission. It started with was then opened in 1994 in Kathmandu and happened because we have kept politics out for privileges based on ethnic origin, Fred Hollows, a New-Zealander Australian today performs 400,000 surgeries a year. of our work.” forgetting the principles of meritocracy. doctor. “We started dreaming over a glass of It now has ophthalmologist centres in 70 Ruit is optimistic and believes in the Born in Olangchungola in the northeastern whisky in 1985,” Ruit recalls. districts, and Ruit even goes to Ethiopia, potential of the Nepali youth. Twenty-one corner of Nepal to a life of extreme hardship, For six years Ruit toured rural areas Tibet, Cambodia and North Korea to organise years after the creation of Tilganga Institute Ruit was soon boosted by the will to do his of Nepal with a team of doctors and eye camps. of Ophthalmology, he says he can now relax best to help people. After attending school implemented the revolutionary and After the 25 April earthquake Ruit led a little: “We have a crop of young, competent in Darjeeling and Kathmandu, he started his inexpensive cataract surgery technique a group from the TIO in various affected and committed doctors who work much medical studies in Lucknow. that he had perfected with Hollows. This districts of Nepal to provide shelter, food better than me.” 8 EVENTS DINING MUSIC GETAWAYS

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details of Ruit’s life from Olangchungola, to Kathmandu, on to India, and marvel at a dignified man with a quiet sense of Helping the poor to see destiny. We find out about the indisciplined Tabin who bunked medical school to climb mountains. We read about how their lives ome lives are lived for the pursuit intersect and intertwine to make the world a of happiness, a sense of fulfilment better, brighter place. Sderived from serving others selflessly. Cataract blindness and the artificial intra- One such person is Sanduk Ruit, Nepal’s ocular lens made in Nepal (see page 10-11) world renowned doctor who decided have now restored the eyesight of many to go into medicine after seeing his around the world. It has saved the lives of siblings die during childhood of easily- people ready to commit suicide after going preventable infections in a remote corner of blind, mothers have seen their children for northeastern Nepal. the first time, and one blind shepherd said Ruit’s life is an inspiration for everyone after his operation, everywhere, not just for fellow-Nepalis (see REVIEW “I’m not only seeing page 7). But it is especially relevant at a the sun, I feel I am the time when it has become fashionable for us sun.” A Nepali woman to be cynical, when Nepalis like to run down who had been blind all her life marvels at Nepal in order to justify moving abroad. seeing snow mountains for the first time: Ruit’s life is proof that there is a lot left “Do you see how they shine?” to be done here, and money can’t buy the As a Nepali, some of Relin’s descriptions sense of personal fulfilment one gets from of rural Nepal sound a bit naive and awe- helping fellow-Nepalis in need. struck, you get that sense of an expat Friends had often told Ruit to write a GOPEN RAI reading too much into things that we take memoir. But the man is too busy giving the to climb Mt Everest a record-breaking 20 for granted. The book is linked to the gift of sight to thousands (and too modest) times. But he was introduced to Ruit and tragedy of Relin’s own life. After allegations to sit down and write about himself. was fascinated by the life of a Nepali doctor that he had fabricated parts of Three Cups Which is why when David Oliver Relin (the who worked his way up from a remote of Tea, the journalist and writer was under author of the best-selling Three Cups of village to set up a world-class eye hospital Second Suns medication for depression. He worked on Tea) decided to do Ruit’s biography, he in Kathmandu, and perfect a technique to Two Doctors and their Second Suns throughout this period, but convinced Relin to also include his fellow- bring down the cost of a cataract operation Amazing Quest to Restore committed suicide just before the book was opthalmalogist, the American climber from $3,000 to $20. And even more Sight and Save Lives released in June 2013. Geoffrey Tabin. The two doctors set up the surprising: perform those operations in The allegations against Relin hurt his Himalayan Cataract Project and have been field hospitals in the middle of nowhere. by David Oliver Relin credibility and also affected the sale of working together to fight blindness across Ruit and Tabin complement each other. Second Suns. This is a pity because the story Random House, 2013 the world for the past two decades. The quiet, committed Nepali instils a sense of the lives of Ruit and Tabin deserve wider Hardback, 415 pages Relin actually came to Nepal in 2012 to of purpose on the often-wayward American. dissemination so they can inspire more climb and also work on a biography of Apa They fund-raise together and go around the people around the world. Sherpa, who at that time was getting ready world to help the poor to see. We trace the Kunda Dixit

ecause of the gung-ho responses from many on Bsocial media, it was hard to resist a visit to Bodhi Books and Bakes, a new addition to Maharajgunj’s expanding food hub. When we went there, it was easy to see what the Twitterati meant: the place is cozy, serves excellent cakes and has a collection of books that would make any bibliophile holler with excitement. This is a food review, granted, but the books deserve a special mention. The café has everything from Cervantes to E.L. James, and PICS: SARTHAK SHARMA Shashi Tharoor to Milan Kundera. One could easily spend an entire day just reading here or otherwise engaging in intellectual chitchat. The café has a rich collection Bodhi Books and Bakes of cakes and pastries, all of their recipes concocted by its owner, profiterole (Rs 100) and the apple butter. dish we had was the cheesy pasta nevertheless. A quiet, snug Bidushi Dhungel, who is a political pie (Rs 150). The profiterole After moving around the café with tuna (Rs 110). The pasta place that titillates the appetites columnist for this paper. We first is probably the café’s best to digress a little, we tried its was exceedingly dry, and tuna of both the epicurean and the went with the red velvet cupcake creation. Positively oozing with mushroom and cheese patty (Rs was truly lacking. The dish could erudite. (Rs 100). Very few cafes bake this cold custard cream and coated 100). It was excellent: the have used a dash of spices Sarthak Mani Sharma cake in Kathmandu, and those with thick chocolate, the giant cheese filling was generous and garnished with a few that do can't do it so well. This profiterole should be on the list but did not cloy, and the OPEN FROM herbs to enhance the How to get there: Find the street one was delectable, but a tad of all who go there. The apple overall taste was truly 8 AM overall taste. that leads to Chappal Karkhana TO buttery. pie was no less scrumptious, satisfying. 8 PM Bodhi Books and in Maharjganj. Bodhi Books is a We then ordered the but again a lil’ too heavy on the The only disappointing Bakes is truly a sanctuary, few meters west on your right. 10 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 11

cornea transplanted from a dead donor. Pranjal is a little dizzy as he walks out of the operation theatre, but he has a flicker of a smile as he sits up on the bed with his bandaged eye. Pranjal’s right eye got infected when he was little, and he gradually Seeing is went blind. At Tilganga, doctors said he needed a corneal transplant but had to wait a month. Pranjal’s father Raja Ram Dhital doesn’t know who the donor is, but says: “We are really grateful to the family, it is because of them that my son can see again.” believing Corneal blindness is the second As the number of donors grows, Nepal major cause of loss of sight after cataract in Nepal. But unlike becomes self-sufficient in corneal transplants cataract, where the lens of the eyes can be replaced with artificial ones, the only way to treat corneal defect SAHINA SHRESTHA For Shova Karki, Samita Aryal is through transplantation. and Ram Pyari Karki every case The Nepal Eye Bank has been is different and difficult. Not all running its cornea retrieval t is just another day at families agree. But when they do, programme at hospitals since 2013 Tribhuvan University the three feel a sense of fulfilment after being associated with the Teaching Hospital in for having made it possible for two global non-profit, Sight Life. When Maharajgunj. Three women living persons to see. it was set up 20 years ago, the in white aprons and “This is not an easy job,” bank used to import corneas from masks walk through the admits Karki, “approaching family the US through the International postmortemI ward looking for at a time of grief and loss even Federation of Eye and Tissue deceased patients. with the best intention doesn’t Banks. Since then it has extracted Despite the overpowering always result in a donation. But we corneas from the cremation site at stench, they locate the body of a keep at it because the rewards are Pashupatinath by going from family 26-year-old man who committed so great.” to family and trying to coax them to suicide that day. They carefully The job requires empathy, donate the eyes of dead relatives. pry open the eye-lids and inspect perseverance and excellent inter- “Today, hospitals are the his eyes, and nod at each other. personal skills. There are five eye main source of corneas,” explains Then they approach the family donation counsellors at TUTH and Shankha Narayan Twyana of the of the young man waiting outside, Bir Hospital and they belong to the Nepal Eye Bank, “not only has the and start by gently asking them Nepal Eye Bank’s Hospital Cornea number increased, but the quality about him. How old was he, was Retrieval Programme (HCRP). For is also better.” there a reason why he killed the past three years they have One reason families are more himself, was he in otherwise good been persuading grieving families willing to donate the eyes of health? Then they ask the father to donate the eyes of deceased deceased relatives is that the Nepal the most difficult question of all: relatives. Eye Bank thanks them in a public would he allow them to donate his Across town at the Tilganga ceremony that is also a memorial son’s eyes? The family goes to a Institute of Opthalmalogy, 17-year- for the donor. More than 700 pairs corner to talk about it, and finally old Pranjal Dhital can see again of corneas were donated last year gives consent. in his right eye after he receives a in Nepal at collection centres in Pokara, Dhangadi, Hetauda, Birganj, Biratnagar, Mechi and Kathmandu. “We have now become self- sufficient in corneas,” says Sanduk Ruit of Tilganga. “We harvest enough corneas we need from all over Nepal.” Still, the Nepal Eye Bank admits LIGHT AFTER LIFE: Technicians from Nepal Eye Bank a lot more needs to be done. Most prepare to excise corneas from a deceased seven-year- Nepali families are still hesitant old girl at Pashupati a few years ago. Samita Aryal, when it comes to organ donation, Shova Karki and Ram Pyari Karki, (right) are eye donation but through the mass media there counselors at TUTH and persuade grieving families to is more awareness that their donate the eyes of dead relatives. decision can change someone’s life. JANA ASENBRENNEROVA DEVAKI BISTA 12

boyfriend Rich (Patrick Fugit) HAPPENINGS all too often, something that Catherine hates. “You pry into the lives of others to conceal how worthless and boring your own life is,” she tells Rich. Rich is also somehow the reason her father killed himself and is the cause of “all depression” in the world. Cups are thrown, and Catherine almost strangles Rich at one point. Queen of Earth truly tantalises. There is, for example, mention of Catherine’s father, a “prominent artist”, over and over again. It’s obvious that one reason Catherine is so manic may DEVAKI BISTA be that she had troubles with WE’RE LEAVING: MJF (D) Chair Bijaya Kumar Gachhadar (sitting) informs her father, though what exactly, Constituent Assembly Chair Subhas Nembang about his party’s decision to Queen of Earth we are not told. In another boycott the constitution drafting process on Tuesday. instance, Catherine tells a visitor, or much of Alex Ross nonchalant. “I could kill you right now, and Perry’s Queen of Earth, the We see Catherine next in a no one would even know” – only Fcamera angle is hardly still: retreat with Virginia (Katherine viewers know that she is only it zooms into one character’s Waterston), who she says is half-joking. Thus, Queen of face only to twitchily move into her best friend. But the label Earth troubles its viewers with another’s and awkwardly peers of ‘best friend’ belies the deep dangerous questions all along. over the shoulders of actors. complexities in their relationship. Will Catherine kill herself? Will This cinematographic technique The two constantly exchange she kill somebody? perhaps reflects the caprices of gibes, for example. At one point The movie tries to unpeel the the movie’s troubled characters in a house gathering, Catherine complexities of its characters, themselves, who are seen in fits chokes on chips and crawls but because it doesn’t tell us of laughter one moment and wild helplessly into her bedroom, but everything, it leaves most of the weeping the next. Through all of is helped by nobody, least of all unpeeling to us. And viewers this, an eerie sound leaves viewers her best friend. But there are also readily jump in to do this, evermore on edge. times when there is deep affection, thanks to Moss’ most compelling This 90-minute psychological as, for example, when Catherine performance and Perry’s thriller begins with Catherine lovingly draws a portrait of commendable directing that DEVAKI BISTA (Elizabeth Moss) berating her Virginia. make this movie so thoroughly SWEET VICTORY: Govinda KC accepts a glass of water from a young child, boyfriend (Kentucker Audley), In between are flashes of the watchable. ending his hunger strike on Sunday after the government agreed to fulfill his who is going to leave her for earlier relationship between James Sarthak Mani Sharma demands to curb corruption in the medical education sector. another woman. A blubbering and Catherine, which seems to be mess, her eyes looking like a source of trouble for Virginia. dark bags because of the ruined (“Cripplingly codependent,” she nepalitimes.com make-up, Catherine yells at her calls it.) Now, the tables have  Trailer boyfriend, who looks surprisingly turned. Virginia is visited by her

BIKRAM RAI TOON TIME: Minister of Foreign Affairs Mahendra Bahadur Pandey scans an art work at an exhibition showing educational cartoons at Nepal Art Council at Babar Mahal on Monday.

GOPEN RAI LIL’ LORD: A young boy dressed as Lord Krishna holds a flute to his lips on the occasion of Krishna Janamasthami on Saturday.

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slavery was acceptable but that changed. Kathmandu’s cosmopolitan women are smart and educated, but they struggle conforming to and living under the pressures of appearing to be a good daughter- prince had to kiss Snow in-law, wife and mother, despite White to bring her back what they feel on the inside. Ato life. Cinderella’s prince This is nothing more than called her the love of his life but a way to control women and if forgot what she looked like, and they revolt, family and society had to put the shoe on every girl manipulate them to feel guilty for in the kingdom. Fairy tales are actually wanting to be happy and great, but they tend to show that living a life they love. We are so women need to be saved. heavily influenced by the world that most families prioritise what society prefers than their own child’s happiness. One truth I learned is that if you live your life trying to make society happy, you will never ALL IN THE MIND be happy. Society will always Anjana Rajbhandary find something wrong and it will always point at a fault that you need to work on. There is a When I was in sixth grade and difference between being true to talking in the library, my teacher yourself and giving up on common told me, “Women are to be seen WORLD BANK sense and doing whatever you and admired, not heard.” It made want. If more people chose to me feel that it was wrong to have be happy than conventional, a voice, that as a woman, I should there would be fewer individuals not have an opinion. judging us in society. As girls, we get programmed In the end, it’s not enough for from a very young age about what my prince to buy me glass slippers we can and cannot do. Family, Rescue me not and take care of me financially. He society and culture tell us who we needs to be smart and kind who are and how we need to be. We get Family, society and culture tell women who we are and sees me as an equal partner in life treated differently based on our where I make my own money. I gender, our talents and our looks. how we need to be, and what we can and cannot do am a hopeless romantic and I still Girls are born with a life map believe in love but I do not need to of how to be and expected to and find their own ways in life? need to be rescued. any books during periods. But no be rescued: I can save myself. follow a trajectory of tradition and Most of us don’t take the time We don’t think about one has a rational explanation. to find out what our authentic self questioning or filtering through convention without questioning Why not? It is not easy and nepalitimes.com why they have to do so. Most is but choose (with a heavy heart) the irrational beliefs that are usually painful to disagree with to stick to the stereotype society tattooed in our brains, being norms that have been practiced  Privileged freedom, #751 women follow it without thinking.  Girl talk: period, #765 Shouldn’t more women explore has plastered all over us where we told, for example, not to touch for generations, but at one time 14 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775

that led towards Hill 60. Also involved were the remnants of the 29th Indian Brigade including the Gurkhas, the New Zealand Just hanging on Mounted Rifles Brigade and three British New Army battalions. All battalions were severely under This is the 8th episode of the saga strength with many of the soldiers of the Gurkhas at the Battle of wracked by dysentery. Gallipoli exactly 100 years ago On the afternoon of 21 August the first assault was made by Australians of the 13th and 14th DAVID SEDDON Battalions together with the 5th Battalion of the Connaught Rangers. With no effective artillery he Battle of Sari Bair was support, under fire from Hill 60 the last major offensive of and neighbouring Hill 100, the Tthe Gallipoli campaign. By infantry were decimated. The now around 25,000 casualties undergrowth caught fire, burning had been suffered by the Allied many of the wounded to death. forces alone, and none of the main By nightfall, the Indian Brigade objectives had been achieved. The had managed a foothold on the general assault on the peninsula lower slopes of the hill. The 18th had failed. Battalion of the 2nd Australian On 15 August 1915, Hamilton Division - which had never finally sacked Stopford and a previously seen action - was sent number of division and brigade to reinforce them. commanders. The command of IX The Aussies arrived at Corps was given to Major-General midnight on 22 August, all 750 Beauvoir De Lisle, commander of of them. The men were fresh the 29th Division until Lieutenant- and healthy, in stark contrast General Julian Byng could travel to the veteran troops, but were from France to assume command. Dardanelles ‘expedition’. But ‘W’ Hills from Suvla, and Hill 60 driven off or killed by the defensive inexperienced and ill-equipped, In all, three new generals were fighting continued throughout the from the new Anzac sector. The fire from the Ottoman troops, even by Gallipoli standards. They brought in from the Western second part of August. The Allies attacks were to commence on 21 who dug in higher up the spur. were sent straight into battle ‘with Front to revitalise the dispirited continued to attack the hills August. At Suvla, de Lisle had Furthermore, the undergrowth bombs and bayonets only’. They command. The generals still did and ridges, against stiff Ottoman the 29th Division and the 2nd ignited in the August heat as a suffered 383 casualties, half of not recognise the full extent of opposition and continued to Mounted Division which had result of flying sparks, bursting them dead. The Hill remained in the disaster for which they were suffer both the incompetence of been moved to Suvla as additional into flame and burning many of Ottoman hands. largely responsible, although their leaders and heavy casualties. reinforcements.The 29th Division the wounded. The 2nd Mounted The assault resumed on 27 Hamilton, uncharacteristically, Cox’s Indian Brigade, with its was to attack Scimitar Hill while Division were then called to join August and further progress was now admitted that the Turks had Gurkha battalions, for example, the 11th Division was to take in the assault and advanced, made up the slope, but the summit the ‘moral ascendancy’ and asked was now only 1,500 men strong. the W Hills on the south of the marching in extended formation, of the hill was still held by the for 45,000 reinforcements to bring As the shape of the new front Anafarta Spur. The 2nd Mounted straight across the salt lake, under Ottomans. On the night of 27 his existing force up to strength line firmed, Hamilton planned Division was in reserve near Lala fire the whole way. For a second August 1915, the 9th Light Horse and a further 50,000 as fresh one further attack to try to link Baba on the far side of the salt time the hill was captured, briefly, Regiment was also sent in to what divisions. the Suvla landing to Anzac. This lake. before being lost for a second and proved to be the final assault on Even in London, doubts were required the capture of a group Scimitar Hill was captured final time. The attack of the 11th Hill 60. One wave of about 80 men now being expressed about the of hills: Scimitar Hill and the briefly, but the attackers were Division towards the W Hills was led by Lieutenant Colonel Reynell, also held up by strong Ottoman lost its way and was caught in the defences. open by Ottoman machine guns. By 20 August, after the Battle Reynell and 27 of his men were of Scimitar Hill, in which 5,300 killed. casualties were suffered among After nearly a week of fighting, the 14,300 troops who took part the Australians eventually reached on the Allied side, the British the summit and captured some commanders began to turn their trenches. But even then, the attention to consolidating their Allies were unable to dislodge meagre gains. The attack on Hill the determined and desperate 60, which began in the afternoon of defenders. By the 27th, one half of 21 August, went on for more than the Hill was taken but the Ottoman a week. This was the last battle forces still remained in control of of the Gallipoli campaign and is the other half: the vital northern described by Carlyon as being ‘as face which overlooked Suvla. heroic and pathetic as any battle of Attack and counter-attack Gallipoli’. The Indian Brigade was continued until 29 August, involved in this last futile assault. when the Allied offensive finally The attacking force was ceased. There had been 2,500 based on General John Monash’s Allied casualties in all on the Hill. Australian 4th Infantry Brigade, By now, total casualties in the which had spearheaded the August Offensive, including those advance on Hill 971 and now evacuated because of illness, had took up position in a gully known reached 40,000. thereafter as Australia Valley @pigreen 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 NATION15 air-tickets already supplied by murder. Watching the one-who- Collateral Damage -1 foreign employers. They’d been would- be PM defend an infamous getting away with cheating poor low-life was troubling, proof migrants for years, helped by the positive our leaders firmly believe many politicians with financial they’re above the law. Defending the right to cheat interests in these agencies. As if to confirm all parties are One doesn’t have to look far to equally guilty, another mafia don discover where people got their nicknamed Ghaite was shot by he civil war that should false shortages and role models. Political leaders have police and this time Congress was never have happened is arbitrarily raise been fiercely protective of their enraged, demanding punishment Tbehind us but collateral prices. right to pillage and cheat both the (instead of applause) for the cops, damage continues to plague Minibus people and state institutions since calling it a staged encounter society. This is the first of a drivers of the the advent of democracy in 1990. and outright murder. The word series, sure to be depressing, on valley went When the state tries to do its ‘martyr’ was again bandied about, the Pointless War’s many tragic on strike job and apply the law it’s often as if a national hero gave his life spin-offs. after a series blocked by those in power. Post for the glorious cause of founding of accidents peace agreement the Maoists a criminal state. brought insisted that no party member In every case the politicians attention to could be prosecuted, even when feel their right to keep a stable of their kamikaze caught red-handed committing thugs to do their dirty work was driving, demanding the a crime, for fear of ‘derailing infringed upon by the police, right to run over pedestrians the peace process’. Hundreds of whose job it is to catch such MOVING TARGET without fear of prosecution. war-time cases were dismissed people. This profound disrespect More recently, the LPG gas overnight and a free-for-all for the law is mirrored in all those

Foreign Hand CHETTRI DIWAKAR mafia was up in arms when ensued, with the police reduced groups vigorously defending their the authorities had the to a purely ceremonial role, any right to cheat and grab whatever Naya Nepal post 2006 went on a rampage, trashing nerve to check weights crook worth catching walked they can, as one does from a witnessed the empowerment classrooms and roughing up and fine dealers caught breaking free after a call from the Home sinking ship. of everybody all at once, with teachers. Demonstrations were the law. Subsequent policies to Ministry. Convicted murderers This unfortunate narrative every imaginable group suddenly held to protest this gross violation ensure smooth supply and avoid representing the Maoist party was launched by politicians in clamouring for attention. Long of their right not to study or learn shortages, real or created, were in the CA were high profile the 1990’s, who lurched from one overdue, no doubt, after centuries anything and still pass. met with closures and threats examples of this unholy alliance crisis to the next while enriching of oppression, but once the Others soon followed suit, from the gas wholesalers. between politics and crime, themselves at every turn. As legitimate causes were aired whenever the government tried to An amusing demonstration suddenly protected by law. they lost credibility the Maoists many dubious causes followed, enforce laws and regulations. Taxi was held by the gold dealers Two recent cases exposed attacked the state, setting a violent perhaps the most bizarre being drivers declared a strike to protect association, normally a sober lot, the continuing nexus between precedent that continues apace the demands of special interest their right to rig up ingenious who hit the streets in defense of criminals and our political class. (witness recent murders of police groups for the right to cheat. ways of making the meter jump, a colleague caught using a faulty UML leader KP Oli was aghast by mobs in Kailali). Destabilising Students were at the vanguard like beeping the horn or pumping scale. One would think honest when a don nicknamed Chari everything has been official of this alarming new trend. the brakes. They were enraged jewellers should congratulate the died in a firefight with police, Maoist policy since 1996 and the Your correspondent recalls a the government dared interfere government for catching someone demanding he be declared a results of this active undermining groundbreaking case several with their time-honored right to tarnishing their reputation, martyr (to what exactly, he of state institutions are visible years ago of an entire class caught overcharge. but maybe that’s just my Logic didn’t say). According to UML today. Special interest groups are cheating on their SLC exams. Food suppliers raised a ruckus Syndrome acting up again. statements this well-known simply following the example Instead of being contrite, as when the state had the gall to Manpower agencies recently criminal ‘could have been a great set by their national leaders, one might expect, the students impede their ability to create shut down in protest of new man’, which might be true if demanding the right to cheat with regulations that stopped them only he’d chosen a career path the same impunity enjoyed by from pocketing fees for visas and that didn’t include robbery and those at the top. 16 NATION 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775

“These women face a double stigma, they return with no money and with a baby, which allows society to question the woman’s character,” says Satra BACK Gurung of Pourakhi. More than 300,000 Nepali women currently work in West Asia, mostly in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Lebanon. One-third of them travel to these countries via India and WITH more than half use illegal means such as fake passports which make them even more vulnerable. ROJITA ADHIKARI A study by the Foreign Nepali Workers Rescue Center found that nearly 90 per cent of women BABIES suffer from some form of violence, ama Rai travelled to Kuwait with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait Women migrant workers returning penniless six years ago with dreams being the worst offenders. Rto build a better life for Sociologist Ganesh Gurung and with children face a double stigma at home her family back home. She was of the Nepal Institute of cheated by her agent, abused by Development Studies has studied her employer and raped by an the problems faced by women acquaintance. After serving an 11- migrant workers on their return month jail sentence for possessing home, and says ostracisation of a fake passport and an expired visa, women who come back with Rai came back to Nepal penniless babies makes their stories even and with a baby. more tragic. Saraswati Bhattarai came to “The family and society are Kathmandu a day before she was not accepting of women who due to fly to Kuwait. That night, come back with babies,” says at the guest house in Gongabu a Gurung. “Without support and guest drugged and raped her. She necessary guidance, some commit flew to Kuwait anyway, gave birth suicide while others resort to there, and returned only to find her prostitution and go back to work family had disowned her. in the same countries again.” Desperate to support her In April, the government family, Lila Dong took up a job as lifted restrictions on women a housemaid in Lebanon where her younger than 30 from working employers beat her up regularly. as domestics in Gulf countries. She fled and lived with a Nepali, Now, women aged 24 and above got pregnant, was caught for can travel to the Gulf for work, overstaying, gave birth in detention but only through authorised and was deported to Nepal. recruiting agencies. The Nepal These are just some of the government is also working on stories of dozens of Nepali women a policy to go into effect from who have returned with babies next month that will require both from domestic work, mainly in worker and employer to sign West Asia. In the last three years work documents at the Nepal alone, the group supporting Embassy in the host country with women migrant workers, Pourakhi, the employer posting a $1,000 has received 41 women, some bond as compensation in case the pregnant and others with children worker is abused. in its shelter in Kathmandu. There “We believe these changes are many more cases which go will help reduce problems unreported. faced by our women migrant workers and encourage more women to follow the legal route,” said Raghu Raj Kafle at the Foreign Employment Promotion Board. The government hopes that if more women follow the legal course it will be easier to lodge complaints against abusive employers and agents. Research has shown that Nepali women who go to work as housemaids in West Asia wouldn’t have gone if they could have just earned Rs 10,000 per month in Nepal itself.

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had to look after the family’s pregnant he told her he’d marry six children and perform all her. Both were soon arrested for LILA household chores. But soon the overstaying their visas. She gave abuse began. Her employers often birth to her daughter in prison, beat her up and the children and after her release Dong rowing up in a family with treated her badly. Her employer returned to Nepal with help Gseven sisters, 29-year-old Lila even hit her while she was asleep from the Nepali Embassy. But Dong dreamt of a grand wedding in bed. her family never accepted her. ceremony. But Dong knew her She wanted to report the abuse Dong now lives in Kathmandu family couldn’t afford it. Five to the police but a friend advised with her five-year-old daughter years ago she left to work in her against it. Lila then moved in and works at a garment factory. Lebanon in the hope of fulfilling with her friend into a spare room She says: “My worry now is that dream. At first she enjoyed she had to share with a young about getting citizenship for my her work as a housemaid. She man. When she found out she was daughter.”

“I was shocked. I didn’t Rama finally returned home know what to do, my visa with her seven-month-old baby, RAMA was also expiring,” she said. there was no one to receive her Rama then met a Nepali man at the airport. Her family in Illam who offered to help her with refused to see her and told her ix years ago Rama Rai left for visa extension. She gave him never to come home. SKuwait with a fake passport the little money she had and “Had I returned with bags full and a one-year visa. Her agent had the two began to live together. of money, my family would have promised her a job as a household When Rama found out she was accepted me with open arms,” help and Rs 16,000 salary. On pregnant with the man’s child, says Rama who now earns a living reaching Kuwait, Rama found he left her. weaving carpets. “The money is out she had been duped: her Unable to renew her visa, not enough,” she says. “There are employer told her the recruiters the 44-year-old was jailed for nights when my baby and I go had already collected her annual 11 months, and gave birth to to bed hungry. That is when it is salary in advance. her son while in prison. When toughest.”

SARASWATI Safe house he 20 beds at the Pourakhi Shelter in Kathmandu’s Maharajganj area are always Tfull. Every day it receives accommodation requests from women migrant workers who have come home after abuse and exploitation abroad. The shelter has a psychosocial counselor and two nurses. The women get help reconnecting and she found out she was pregnant. reconciling with families. Her employers forced her to Satra Gurung, general secretary of Pourakhi says sometimes the families are work throughout her pregnancy forced to take such women fearing legal action. Women who have returned with and refused to take her to the babies don’t usually want to go back to their old lives. The shelter helps women doctor. She went into labour, and readjust to their lives back in Nepal. gave birth in the car on the way www.pourakhi.org.np to hospital. Her daughter was diagnosed with cerebral palsy and was kept in an ICU for 19 months. When doctors noted no signs of improvement, mother and daughter returned home to Nepal with help from the International Red Cross. “I came home with no money and a child that was not my husband’s. I didn’t know where to go,” says Bhattarai who araswati Bhattarai came to down but I calmed myself and moved to Jhapa to live with a SKathmandu a day before she boarded the plane to Kuwait the friend. Her daughter died a month was to fly to Kuwait. That night, at next morning,” recalls Bhattarai. ago, and Bhattarai still hasn’t the guest house in Gongabu where Bhattarai worked long hours, gathered the courage to talk to she was staying, another guest and was paid on time. Her her husband, and her family has drugged and raped her. “I broke troubles however began when disowned her. 18 FROM THE NEPALI PRESS 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 “Halt constitution-drafting” Advocate Dipendra Jha with will certainly douse the fire in Rabindra Mishra in Tarai. BBC Nepali Service, 9 September Don’t you think the state should be restructured by a BBC: Do you think it is possible panel of experts, rather than by to resolve the current political politicians? crisis through talks? Yes. But did our political parties Dipendra Jha: Yes. But the accept the report of the State government must create a Restructuring Committee, which conducive environment. It must recommended 10 provinces to the ease curfews, announce relief first Constituent Assembly (CA)? packages for families of those The middle way killed and provide medical But members of that panel were DILIP SINGH treatment for injured protesters. divided, so they submitted two Editorial, Naya Patrika, September 10 Only then can there be talks. The separate reports. constitutional hurdles are not too So, how can we guarantee that difficult to overcome. All we need members of future panel of Trying to pass a constitution that doesn’t treat its citizens equally is not is a little more effort on building experts will not be divided? in tune with the democratic values of this country. By not addressing trust. Garchhadar’s alliance can be the the concerns of dissenting voices, the leaders are only creating an entry point. So, what could be the way out? environment for conflict to grow. But clause-wise deliberations on Kathmandu must take the It is true that extremist forces have infiltrated the Madhes protests the draft constitution are already Even if Gachhadar’s proposal initiative to ease tension in the today. These forces want to push these protests to an extreme and halfway through, and the major is accepted, Magars will still Tarai. The first CA, the State call for separatism. Meanwhile, those in power believe that the parties are set to promulgate it by be agitating for a Magarat and Restructuring Committee formed agitating Tharus and Madhesis can be brought under control by use mid-September. Limbus for a Limbuwan. by that CA and the second CA’s of intimidation. Instead of engaging in sincere talks with the agitators, What’s wrong in halting the Gachhadar has proposed several Dialogue Committee all have our leaders are aggravating the situation by moving forward with a constitution-drafting process for options. One is to create an accepted identity and viability as constitution that suits only their needs and wants. three days if a new agreement eighth province by piecing bases to create federal provinces. The only way out of this muddle is to stop the constitution-drafting can be signed with the agitating together Jhapa, Morang, Sunsari If we stick to that, everyone for a few days, and use the time to engage in sincere talks with the parties? The constitution can and Siraha. This will address will own the new constitution. opposing voices. Those who are protesting in Madhes must also still be promulgated by mid- the demands of Limbus and I don’t think the seven-province understand that there are limits to their demands. They must be ready September even if we halt the Madhesis. Another option is proposal endorsed by the NC, for talks with the major political parties. There is no other alternative. process for now. to leave Jhapa in the eastern the UML and the UCPN (M) province but include the is worthless, even this has But agreement with whom, and southern parts of Sunsari and recognised some principles about what? There are so many Morang districts in the Madhes of identity and viability. For inefficiency. parties on the streets with so province. In the western plains, example, the province stretching The government claims No Authority that the Authority has not many political agendas. Kanchanpur can be left in the far- from Parsa to Saptari was There are a couple of major west province but Kailali should definitely carved out to fulfill the actually been revoked. The political alliances in the Madhes. be in the Tharuhat province. aspirations of Madhesis. But I Editorial, Kantipur, three major parties have I think the eight-province Gachhadar’s proposal might not agree that slight modifications are September 10 agreed to pass a bill in the proposal floated by Bijay Kumar solve the whole problem, but it needed. Constituent Assembly (CA) to re-establish the Authority. On Victims of April’s earthquake June 22, President Ram Baran have suffered immensely. But Yadav issued the ordinance. the very existence of the body Though a replacement bill was tasked with helping them, the registered in the CA a month Reconstruction Authority, is later, it was not presented in now in danger because of the the parliamentary session. It is government’s indifference. possible that the whole issue of To receive help from donors, the Reconstruction Authority the government formed the will fall by the wayside because Authority and appointed its the political polarization chief through an ordinance is expected to deepen. It is which would have to be imperative now that we heal the replaced with a bill within 60 wounds of the quake-affected. days. This could not happen For that, the necessary legal because of political wrangling mechanisms must be urgently and the government’s put in place. Tibet relocation Kantipur, 8 September

China is preparing to relocate the current residents of the earthquake-ravaged border town of Khasa to Xigatse, 200km to the northwest. The earthquake that hit central and eastern Nepal on 25 April affected Khasa as well and the residents were moved right after the quake. Some 43 Nepali families based there have also been relocated to Xigatse, while a few others have returned to Nepal. The Chinese are said to be keen to rebuild Khasa, and bring in mainlanders to live there. “It is understood that China wants to establish a new settlement at Khasa, and we are going to be relocated to Xigatse,” a Khasa-based businessman told Kantipur. Nepal’s Consul General in Lhasa Hari Prasad Basyal confirmed that China wants to rebuild the town as a modern and well-planned area and work has already started. “The reconstruction of roads has been done and they may start with the houses next,” he said, denying that that this was a forcible relocation. “I think they will let the ones who don’t want to move stay back.” The border trading town of Khasa has remained closed following the earthquake. The Nepal Army and the Chinese Armed Police Force had cleared the road a few times but it was blocked again by landslides. Many container trucks with goods bound to Nepal are still stranded there. Locals claim the resettlement plan is to discourage the illegal trade China believes has grown in the area because of the close ties between Nepalis and residents of the area. Officials say that even though China has security concerns it is also wary of the Tibetan refugees in Nepal. The Chinese officials who have visited Nepal have always stressed the historic importance of the trade point and assured of developing the trade point that links the two countries. After the earthquake, China has pledged the highest amount for reconstruction. 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 NATION 19 Manufacturing fake doctors The country’s medical education system is infested by corrupt investors with political protection

RAMU SAPKOTA Universal Medical College, who CIAA secretariat and when he boasted that he had connections questioned it, the CIAA filed a with top judges and can win any corruption charge against him. he registration of medical case. It turns out that the owner of colleges is a convoluted “No matter how weak students KIST, Balman Singh Karki is also Tprocess in Nepal, but it can are, it is my responsibility to the brother of CIAA chief Lokman be made much simpler by bribing ensure they clear the tests, we Singh Karki. a thoroughly corrupt system. just need the money. Everything On 17 September 2014, an Our investigation has revealed a will be taken care of,” he told us, investigation committee set up by chilling truth: almost everything even hinting that he had bribed Health Ministry showed serious is for sale in Nepal’s medical a certain bearded Chief Justice in irregularities by the NMC on education. Nearly everyone is on the past (see box). seat allocations. Over the years, the take: government ministries, The vicious web of corruption owners of medical colleges have the Nepal Medical Council (NMC), begins after the investor with invested huge sums of money even the anti-corruption watchdog, political protection applies for GOPEN RAI lobbying to broaden the criteria the CIAA, and Supreme Court. affiliation with some university. set by the council. An official Anyone can be a doctor if you The Nepal Medical Council how many students they can while relaxing the criteria to run from a private college admitted pay someone enough. Bribery is (NMC) inspects the new take depending on the facilities. the MBBS program. It was the to us they had to bribe health standard operating procedure in college to see if it has adequate Colleges were found to have result of this intense lobbying, in secretary Pravin Mishra and acquiring college licenses, student infrastructure. Most medical bribed the NMC and showed 2013 NMC reduced the required council chairman Damodar seats, manipulating monitoring colleges established in the past fake infrastructure and faculties. number of beds in hospital for Gajurel to lobby for it. teams, influencing the judiciary. decade do not meet the minimum As a result, understaffed and ill- every student from 7 to 5.5. The student admission The medical mafia will even criteria. But the investors often equipped medical colleges have Even the anti-graft body like process is another area of medical guarantee that students with cash ‘influence’ the Ministry of mushroomed across the country, the CIAA has been meddling education with entrenched will pass not just their entrance Education and the Ministry producing underqualified doctors in the council’s affairs in corruption. MB Kedia Dental exams but their final exams too. of Health and Population and and putting millions of lives at risk. determining seat numbers. In College in Birganj, Kantipur It is because he has seen various universities to get their Baburam Marasini, a senior one letter dated 15 August 2014 Dental College in Kathmandu, this ugly underside of medical permission. epidemiologist and former registrar about the proposed accreditations and Universal Medical College education that Govinda KC has In 2010 an expert committee at the NMC says: “The government to Birat Medical College and in Bhairawa have all been taking been on a fast-unto-death so found that the College of Medical has set clear guidelines but they Devdaha Medical College, and donations for admitting foreign often. His last 13-day hunger Sciences in Bharatpur and Nobel have not been followed.” another on 1 December 2013 students without qualifying strike ended on Sunday after the Medical College in Biratnagar Our investigation also found regarding the number of allocated exams. In some cases, Nepali government assured him that it lacked adequate infrastructure that surprise inspections are often seats for various colleges, the students have also been admitted would clean up the health care and faculties. The NMC had leaked to colleges, which then fill CIAA cleared the number of as Indians to avoid the entrance sector, but most experts say he provided a false report based on hospital beds with fake patients student seats on offer. The owner examinations. may have to fast again because the which the colleges were handed and temporary faculty hired of Birat Medical College is a close Satish Kumar Deo, who was promises ring hollow. affiliation letters. Five years later, overnight to meet the requirements. family member of CIAA chief head of NMC’s ethical committee Every time the Institute of nothing has changed. Niranjan Kumar Yadav, a Lokman Singh Karki. confirms: “We found many Medicine (IoM) and universities Determining the number of recruiter, admitted bringing 52 such Jyoti Baniya served as an NMC Indians and some Nepali students publish entrance exam notices, student seats for medical colleges faculty members from India for a member and says he was against were admitted without sitting colleges go to the courts to get a is another task for which money Nobel Medical College inspection this arbitrary CIAA decision. He for entrance exams.” Of the 19 stay order to allow admission of changes hands. The NMC is last month. Private medical colleges told us: “There were no clear students admitted to Kedia Dental Indian students. Mysteriously, the supposed make up to Rs 10 billion every year. grounds on which the number of College, 14 have already received courts always rule in favour of to monitor With that kind of money, colleges seats were increased in Gwarko’s practicing license from NMC. the medical colleges. We posed as medical lobby hard among decision makers KIST Medical College.” Baniya students and secretly recorded an colleges to offering huge financial incentives found out that the NMC was Centre for Investigative interview with Dhruba Poudel of determine to maximise the number of seats taking instructions from the Journalism “We bribed the Chief Justice” Dhruba Poudel, personally dealt with him.” after Kalyan Shrestha became Chief Universal Medical College, Bhairawa “We also have connections in the Justice, but our lawyers tell me that it is courts, and we can use them to win any still the same. They can fix everything. A Centre for Investigative Journalism case against us. There was a case in the Besides, (Justice) Parajuli is always there reporter posing as an agent who could bring appellate court against the number of to help us. (Justice) Cholendra (Samsher Indian students to his college interviewed student seats that the NMC granted to us. JBR) is even more supportive. Even Dhruba Poudel of the Universal Medical A joint bench of justices Gopal Parajuli and the bearded Chief Justice (Damodar College in Bhairawa and secretly recorded Om Prakash Parajuli dismissed that case. Neupane) had helped settle a case his conversation. Excerpts: (Khum) Aryal had a ‘setting’ with justice against us. We gave him Rs 20 million in “We collected Rs 1.5 million from each Gopal Parajuli through Kalu, the real estate cash. He personally received the money.” medical college to bribe NMC officials to broker. (Justice) Parajuli never hands down relax the MBBS program criteria. We also a ruling against us. We have to manipulate had to give Rs 300,000 to health secretary a ‘setting’ with the court’s registrar, and he nepalitimes.com Pravin Mishra apart from the NMC officials. always refers our case to Parajuli’s bench.”  Listen to the audio Our Managing Director Khumal Aryal “I do not know if things have changed 20 BACK SIDE 11 - 17 SEPTEMBER 2015 #775 www.nepalitimes.com www.nepalitimes.com

resemblance to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. But for sheer macho-ness there is nothing to beat the ultimate he- Anthropomorphic autos car: that stud from the Tata stable, the Hexa. The Hexa is to SUVs what Arnold volution is coming a full circle in hurl abuse in Cantonese if they notice you Schwarzenegger is to the California the post-Industrial Age as SUVs start have driven off without putting on your gubernatorial elections. Eresembling the humans who own seatbelt. There are cars that understand On the other hand, the well- them. This is entirely appropriate given voice commands, and ones that throw proportioned curvy chassis and that Darwin’s theory about the survival tantrums and refuse to start unless you aerodynamic headlamp lens with optional of the fattest is amply evident in the dog- tickle them behind their carburettors. eye-lashes of the new Lexus RX350 make it eat-dog world of Kathmandu traffic on Today’s anthropogenic car designers most assuredly feminine. Then there is the any given day where the motto is: “Every strive to endow their creations with human new Rolls Royce Phantom with its spacious Man for Herself.” When might is right, it is attributes. So much so, that some cars even trunk of generous 700 litre storage capacity politically correct to have a bigger car. And have sex. No, they don’t mate in the garage which, in hindsight, has striking parallels just as pets tend to resemble their masters, when the lights go out (not that I am aware to Jennifer Lopez. The Mahindra E2O, on cars have started having facial expressions of, anyway). I mean cars these days are the other hand, with its quiet intelligence similar to their owners. actually gender differentiated. There are and unassuming charm, makes any male So, give it another couple of million and Iron Cross Off-road Rear Bumpers. cars that are definitely male, there are cars car on the road today look slightly retarded. years of evolution and automobiles will Take a look at some of the cars stuck in that are definitely female, and there are cars After that, there is the whole trans- shed their hatchbacks and start walking traffic on the bridge, and you will mistake that are definitely other. gender range of cars of around on two hind legs. In the old days, some of them for your aunt. Over there is Take the new BMW X6M, for instance. which we have problems when they designed cars, they put an one with a grinning radiator grill, and just With its protuberant Y-front grill and pinning down the internal combustion engine inside a box behind it is the metallic golden model with bulging bonnet, this is an unmistakably exact sex of, if any. The and attached four wheels to it. These days, bushy eye brows and a double chin. There masculine machine that oozes testosterone foremost example of this they take a Miss Universe and install a V8 are cars with sleek midriffs, others look like from every pore and likes to run around is the swarthily effeminate 6.2 litre Turbo-charged 420hp naturally they’ve had boob jobs, sedans with cute in its undies. Or the soon-to-be-unveiled Audi Q5. Now tell me is aspirated powertrain and rig her up with a behinds, there are cars that speak to you. Mercedes Benz 2016 GLC which that a he or a she, or none pair of Transverse Torsion Bar Suspensions Yes, they greet you when you get in, and from certain angles bears an uncanny of the above? The Ass

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