So where do we head from here? Days passed, made some week and soon it will be a month; ‘A month of Bandh’. They want to make it a year I suppose, you know…to make it an anniversary and celebrate ‘National Bandh Day’ next year and the impact going to remain for eternity.
Look! I never understood politics, didn’t want to actually but as much as I know, some people are demanding a space for their caste and taking help of violence to raise their voice. Yes, they might feel good about it but if any person’s idea needs violence to prove it right then let me tell you, it is absolutely worthless!!Some voice raised, declared Bandh and the remaining population? Accepted it so easily. No shops open, no transport, nothing at all. Fear inside people is the only thing I can feel. People just open the shutters of their shop, four people come up with a rally throwing orders and every shutters closed with in the blink of an eye. Are you kidding me?
More or less, there may be 1 Lakh people who are pro this Bandh but what about the rest? Forget caste, culture and other lame reasons to raise voice against this Bandh, don’t we possess as identity as a human being first? Forget Madhesi, Limbu, Chhetri, Brahman, Kami, Damai etc. isn’t being Nepali a reason vigorous enough?
People are getting jobless, foodless, homeless, hopeless and we still need a shitty identity of own caste. I don’t know what others have observed till now, I don’t know if this Bandh is making any difference to them but I see smiles turning into tears, courage turning into fears, voices turning into violence, respects turning into ignominy, unity turning into splitting ups, humanity turning into wickedness, we turning into I and Nepal turning into pieces.
So where is our Nepal heading towards? Where is humanity disappearing today? We keep on blaming politicians but will it make us get back everything we lost? Hold on..hold on!! Why don’t we look inside ourselves first? Directly or indirectly, aren’t we also the ones responsible for this situation?
The incident of Tikapur was so merciless and what did we do, nothing!! We still keep on counting how many days it has been Bandh and how long it will last instead of making effort to limit it for today itself and the saddest part? We have sold the pride of being Nepali just because of some pathetic mindsets.
Words are not enough to write how deep our soul has been hurt and our motherland? Leave it, we can’t afford to think about the pain she is bearing right now. See, my father is Chhetri, mother is Newar, and Grandmother is Tamang. So, answer me with whom and where am I supposed to live with?
Well I don’t give you the right to decide the life and people I will live with. I don’t give you the right to teach me who I need to become as a person. I choose to live with my family in our country Nepal that provided me the privilege to get recognized in this universe. I owe my identity to Nepal and you?
