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295 28 April - 4 May 2006 20 Pages Rs 30 #295 28 April - 4 May 2006 20 pages Rs 30 Paper crown AJAYA JOSHI 2 EDITORIAL 28 APRIL - 4 MAY 2006 #295 Published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Chief Editor: Kunda Dixit Desk Editor: Marty Logan Design: Kiran Maharjan Web: Bhushan Shilpakar Vicepresident Corporate Affairs: Sneh Sayami Advertising: Sambhu Guragain [email protected] Subscription: [email protected] Hatiban, Godavari Road, Lalitpur Forgetting to remember BP [email protected], GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu Tel: 5543333-6, Fax: 5521013 www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5547018 He is safe, but gagged and bound, invisible but always present never got to know BP Koirala ceremonies took place and the than have it undergo some FREEDOM AT MIDNIGHT well. He came to a couple of image was unveiled. undignified fate. On Monday night when King Gyanendra restored parliament, we as a I seminars at Columbia The statue itself, done by a Years passed, and of course nation actually went back four years to 22 May 2002. So it is hard to University in New York where I Bulgarian sculptor, was an the statue remained in my office say why we are celebrating. taught for many years. I attempt at a likeness of BP in in Kent Hall, often garlanded by Just go to the internet archives (www.nepalitimes.com) to read remember one meeting that was bronze that sat on a tall salmon people who had learned of its #95 of this paper and check out the country’s state that week four very crowded: BP came toward coloured stone base. It was, presence. Even Girija placed a years ago. Deuba and Koirala were at each other’s throats even the halfway point, and I though no one said anything, garland on it on one visit to the while the Maoists had just escalated the war by attacking the army. instantly recognised him. I asked something of a disappointment. Columbia campus. My office had Deuba had just dissolved the house to save his own skin from a him to come to the front. He The sculpture was not a full bust become part shrine. Koirala onslaught and we wrote in this space: ‘Once more, we are politely refused and sat cross- or head of BP but a small part of In the end, the statue stayed made to pay for the tiny minds and large egos of our politicians. legged on the floor in the back his face that emphasised his nose until I decided to retire and Once more the nation is held hostage by their myopia. The with the students. and his glasses. The guests, depart myself. I remember well dissolution of parliament, the November elections are just outer manifestations of infighting in the ruling party.’ including Ganesh Man Singh, when first my books and papers That was how parliament was run the last time we saw it. On GUEST COLUMN made the appropriate remarks were packed in cardboard and Friday, it reconvenes and the same faces are back. How is it going Ted Riccardi and we disbanded. tape. I then watched as the movers to be different this time? Have our politicians really learnt their A couple of years after the covered BP with the same tape lessons? It is difficult to be optimistic. Yet, we must be because the I later met him once more installation, I received a call from and cardboard. alternatives are worse. when he came to New York for a friend saying that World When we got to our new The first order of business is to pass a resolution on a medical treatment. He gave a talk College was going to close due to destination, I decided to keep BP constituent assembly to fulfil the parties’ pledge to the Maoists—this at the weekly brown bag lunch at financial difficulties and we had safely wrapped until I could find is the roadmap to convince the comrades to join multiparty politics. the Southern Asian Institute, and a limited time in which to move an appropriate place for him. He This is important because without removing loopholes in the it was then that I saw the BP’s statue. Otherwise, it would stood for a long time on the back constitution that allow for royal mischief, we will keep going round charisma of this man and learned be bulldozed with the rest of the porch of our house near and round in circles and need a street uprising every 10 years. But constituent assembly elections won’t happen for a bit, what why he remained the most school. The question arose, Washington, safe but gagged and are the honourable members going to do till then? We hope they respected and loved of Nepali however, as to where the bound, invisible but always won’t get bogged down fighting for allowances and portfolios. leaders. At one point in his talk, sculpture could go. Would present. I took to saluting him to Here is an urgent checklist: reciprocate the Maoist ceasefire to he announced his return to Columbia accept it and find a remind myself of who was behind create the atmosphere for a peace process to start, bring the army Nepal. When someone asked what place for it? I volunteered to talk the tape and wrapping paper. effectively under parliamentary control, halt all major purchases of King Birendra might do to him, to the authorities and see what More time passed, and my military hardware and helicopters and use freed up funds to kickstart he said wryly: “I don’t think that could be done. The answer at family and I decided to return to service delivery of health and education to all corners of the country. he will kill me.” Unfortunately, I every level was a polite but firm Nepal for an extended visit. Before the euphoria evaporates, people need to see immediate never saw him again, and he died “no”. The director of the Where to put BP so that he would proof that democracy this time will mean an improvement in shortly thereafter of the disease Southern Asian Institute, the be safe and out of our tenants’ their lives. that had plagued him for so long. most appropriate place for the way? We decided that he should Sometime after the Jana statue, said that there was simply live in Rappahannock County, Andolan of 1990, I received a call no room. The famous had already Virginia, deep in the backwoods in New York saying that a statue cluttered the small seminar room of rural America. of BP was to be unveiled on the of the Institute: Ambedkar, And that is where he is now, campus of World College on Tagore and Tarakh Nath Das. As far from his own country, Long Island and asking if I time passed, it became unnoticed either there or would attend. I consented gladly, increasingly difficult to find a anywhere else. Still bound and and in the company of several place for BP. There being no room gagged. Alapatra. z Nepali friends made the journey at the inn, I then volunteered to Huntington, the home of the that temporarily, for a few weeks Ted Riccardi is a retired professor college. There, in a quiet grove on or months, I would house the from Columbia University now living KIRAN PANDAY the school grounds, the statue in my own office rather in Kathmandu. This transitional parliament Can’t fail this time must hit the ground running n Thursday, the raw energy of parliament reconvening on Friday constituent assembly polls even if the arms some form of prosecution is necessary to slogan-shouting demonstrations afternoon in Singha Darbar. of the security forces and rebels are taken deter responsible officers of the state from O attracted three-year-old Arambha of Resolving longstanding conflicts in care of under the terms of a reliable descending into lawlessness in future. Kuleswor. He insisted to be taken to the countries torn asunder by armed international guarantee. The palace secretariat, the Raj Parishad andolan. And off he went to the curfew insurgency and ruthless counter- Formation of a high-level commission and the Royal Nepali Army will now have to carnival on the shoulders of his proud insurgency is challenging even in normal for truth and reconciliation is another be kept under intense public scrutiny. Since cousin. When he came back, he was all times, and these are not normal times for important task. The excesses of the Narayanhiti Massacre, these institutions excitement. “I saw fire, I saw an uprising,” Nepal. Four years of royal rule have all some of the officers of security haven’t exactly covered themselves with shouted the little boy. Nepal’s future leaders but destroyed the national economy. The forces upon peaceful glory. The secretariat may have to be better beware of Arambha in 15 year’s time. diplomatic debacle suffered by palace protesters made their own reduced and the Raj Parishad dissolved Those who see the flames of uprising propagandists has sullied the image of former officers hang their forthwith. But the RNA will have an even firsthand never forget its intensity. the country in the community of nations. heads in shame. The more important role to play in a functioning When King Birendra bowed down to Rapid militarisation has sapped the constitution has no democracy and it needs to be thoroughly People’s Movement and announced morale of the police force. Rampant provision for forced exile overhauled and reformed for a restoration of the multi-party system on the politicisation has crippled civil or capital punishment, but different kind of function: night of 9 April 1990, firecrackers went off administration and society stands deeply security and service of the in every neighbourhood.
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