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Nepali Times and Through in the Past Year #330 5 - 11 January 2007 16 pages Rs 30 IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE: Weekly Internet Poll # 330 Nepathya's annual peace concert Q. How do you see Nepal’s political and tour could not have come at a more economic prospects in 2007? appropriate time for the residents of Total votes: 2,875 Lahan and other cities in the tarai. Weekly Internet Poll # 331. To vote go to: www.nepalitimes.com Q. Is the government addressing basic madhesi grievances? RAJESH KC Using music to spread the message of peace and tolerance Healing touch KALYAN SHARMA in LAHAN of the Janatantrik Tarai Mukti Kiran Krishna Shrestha, “but we to jhyaure blues to spread the Morcha (JTMM), a breakaway thought it was more important message of peace and tolerance “Are you a Nepali?” yelled Amrit faction of the Maoists that has than ever to do it.” for the past four years. This Gurung into the microphone at a itself since split into the Goit and The concert in Lahan was sold winter, the tour will reach 25 concert in Lahan this week. The Jwala Singh factions. The groups out and young people sang along venues, including out-of-the- crowd responded with a are competing with the Nepal with such Nepathya hits as way places that have been scenes deafening “Yes!” Sadbhawana Party (NSP), part of Resham and Talko pani. But of battles in the past: “Are you proud to be a Nepali?” the governing coalition, to lead the crowd-response was most intense Sandikharka, Surkhet, Besisahar, “Yes!” struggle for proportional for the song that extolled Nepali Trisuli, Jiri. Band members “Let me hear that again.” representation of the tarai in the unity: Rato ra chandra surya. found audiences much more “Yes!” constituent assembly election. Amrit admits he was moved close spontaneous and open than Amrit’s band Nepathya then The day before Nepathya to tears. during the war years. launched into a fast-paced arrived in Lahan, the NSP had “It was amazing,” he says, “I Gurung is swarmed by fans rendition of Raamesh’s rousing declared a tarai shutdown. There felt this powerful intensity backstage after the Lahan concert, Gaun gaun basti basti, which had were posters calling for boycotts of coming from the audience, and it including four Maithili-speaking the audience dancing in the businesses owned by hill settlers, energised me even more.” Nepathya women in saris (inset) who want aisles. Nepathya has been greeted and a young bus passenger was closed the two-hour concert with to take a picture with him. by enthusiastic crowds at every killed in front of his two sons. A the swaying and restrained melody “People used to call us mad, stop in its current 40-day concert van belonging to Kantipur was of Au hat milau, which had special going around the country singing tour, but Lahan was different. shot at. resonance for people in this tense about peace,” Amrit says, “but The war never really ended here “We weren’t sure whether we tarai town. look at this, it works. Everything in the east-central tarai. should go ahead with the concert,” The Nepali folk-fusion band will turn out right if we just The region is the stronghold recalls Nepathya tour organiser has been using powerful lyrics set keep a positive attitude.” 2 EDITORIAL 5 - 11 JANUARY 2007 #330 Published by Himalmedia Pvt Ltd, Editor: Kunda Dixit Executive Editor: Anagha Neelakantan Desk Editor: Jemima Sherpa Design: Kiran Maharjan Web: Rupendra Kayastha Director Sales and Marketing: Sunaina Shah [email protected] Subscription: [email protected] For Subscriptions: 5011628/29 Hatiban, Godavari Road, Lalitpur [email protected] GPO Box 7251, Kathmandu 5543333-6, Fax: 5521013 www.nepalitimes.com Printed at Jagadamba Press, Hatiban: 5547018 Draw the line It’s not just pahadis that need to change their mindset BORN-AGAIN DEMOCRACY rime Minister Koirala brewing crisis in the bud than by until the real issues are dealt Nepal never fails to surprise as it goes through the pangs of nation- recently announced that he calling for dialogue, right? But with. building. Extreme, even exhilarating, diversity is the leitmotif of this Pwas in touch with, and consider why this ‘Nobel Peace Pahadi leaders may be nation-state. In the free air of born-again democracy and on the ready to talk to, the Janatantrik Prize-worthy’ leader doesn’t completely ignorant of madhes road to a constituent assembly, a myriad of voices and demands Tarai Mukti Morcha (JTMM). The issue a similar call to the dynamics, but we don’t see are rising. JTMM is a radical splinter of the moderate madhesis pining to madhesi society trying to The vocal protests from the leaders of the madhesi community across the tarai from Mechi to Mahakali is no surprise. Madhesi Maoists, and is demanding an talk to him and other senior broaden its vision either. They political factions know that the composition of the constituent independent madhes. The JTMM leaders of the SPA government? are content to play the politics of assembly is critical to their gaining proportionate ownership of the has itself split into two groups— Maybe they have not noticed, victimhood, and prone to country and its governance, and they are competing with each other one led by Jay Krishna Goit and but madhesi civil society leaders exhibiting the same knee-jerk to strike a more radical image. the other by Jwala Singh. have still not received that call reaction they accuse pahadis of. Nepali identities have layers, and the formation of the state is Whatever differences between the from Baluwatar so they can brief Just last week, a pahadi bus as if on a palimpsest. The hill ethnic demands are targeted at the the prime minister on tarai helper was killed by JTMM Bahun-Chhetri (and some Newar) combine that runs the issues. Yet the prime minister radicals in Saptari for violating Kathmandu establishment. But, as the tarai leadership points out, EYES WIDE SHUT Sheetal Kumar makes a conciliatory gesture to their transport strike. And yet, no janajatis from the hills have always had access to the national the JTMM. What message does madhesi group or intellectual Nepali identity as part of their self-image. Even as there is unity this send? specifically condemned it. There across the tarai, there are undercurrents bubbling to the surface, two, their aim and tactics are between those who call their region tarai and others who would call To me, it seems pretty has been no sustained criticism it madhes. Other tarai sub-identities break down by religion, (Hindu similar: both groups have led an straightforward: no talking to of the anti-pahadi campaign by and Muslim, to begin with), by caste, by language (Bhojpuri- anti-pahadi campaign in several you folks unless you pick up the JTMM in Siraha and Saptari, Awadhi-Maithili), and by ethnicity and origin (madhesi-pahadi-tharu eastern and central tarai districts, arms, sow mayhem, and call for though it has been going on for and tarai-hill). sowing terror and mayhem. secession, a la the JTMM. months. The madhesi Given these complexities in our national society, it will take Koirala’s offer of dialogue If this is what our leaders blogosphere today is full of anti- some time before all historical disenchantments have been aired, looks perfectly fine on the want, it may not be too long pahadi venom, and still there is some of which the Kathmandu establishment might never have surface. How best to nip a before they get it, unfortunately. no attempt to douse the flames. known existed. Those in the capital will need to show sagacity What we witnessed in Nepalganj No doubt, the discrimination and empathy, and the leaders of different communities need to last week was not merely a law against madhesis is genuine and pull back from populist brinkmanship. No one set of demands and order issue. Neither can it be pahadis would do well to or resentments cancels out the other. The civil society leaders gathered outside the prime dismissed as instigated by address it now, before it’s too minister’s residence and then outside Singha Darbar this ‘regressive elements’ or ‘religious late. But madhesis need to realise week got it wrong. They had a simple—almost fundamentalists’, though their that they too must change their simplistic—demand: announce the dates for the possible role cannot be ruled mindset and view criminality for constituent assembly election. out. Nepalganj was, in essence, a what it is. Remaining silent in The CA election process can’t begin unless the clash of cultures and identities the face of anti-pahadi crimes Maoist arms are put into containers, which that has long been in the perpetrated in the name of requires the UN to certify the process, which making. No matter how madhesi liberation reinforces the requires the monitors to be deployed. So, the much religious or royalist worst stereotypes and fears. And demand should properly be that arms verification colour you bestow on it, the it does their cause little good begins. underlying fact is that the because, in the end, if positive The real issue is the text of the interim constitution. There was no jurist or lawyer violence was rooted in madhesi change is to come in this on the negotiating team, and civil society, grievances and pahadi fears of country, it can only be achieved which sometimes seem to give the Maoists subjugation. when the majority moderates on an edge over the other parties, were It is tragic that Nepal’s both sides reach out and forge a present as observers.
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