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In full working capacity of the identity I do not want to reveal, I am doing what I can. Please be rest assured. I have been following your work for quite some time now.

Eonage,

Go fuck yourself with the feeling that you represent Nepal and the change you keep hopping on when you relate DIFFERENTLY to the mass protests. And as such, you do not belong.

Who the fuck I am? I am a Vidrohi for now and I will wash away anything in my way like a cyclone does.

Go take your lessons on representation and you’ll know how false the statement that a human being represents human race is. Do you understand the Madhes issue in representation, if I may ask?

And so far as doing something to create change is concerned, in the identity I do not want to reveal, I am doing what I can in my full capacity.

I fight the system each day.

You do owe me a drink…i relate to them… but differently…

now to comment on your “mistakes”…again…”MISTAKES”(an understanding of something that is not correct;refer to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&defl=en&q=define:mistake&ei=Jva6S9CHHc65rAfD3u3QBw&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title&ved=0CAYQkAE

I REPRESENT NEPAL… as much as any human being dead or alive represents the human race… YOU HAVE NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER TO “F” STATE WE DON’T BELONG… quoting your words…and right back at you…WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE???…

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WHAT-SO-EVER… IN STARTING AN EFFORT TO CHANGE…

YOU CERTAINLY DIDN’T TRY … YOU MY FRIEND… FUCKING RAN AWAY… INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CHANGE WHAT YOU HATE… YOU JUST STARE AT THEM…SWEAR AT THEM…AN DO NOTHING… YEAH!

“YOU DO NOTHING!!!”…

Lambasting the things you have no control over…not because you can’t have control over…but because you are too scared to gain control… that my friend… is what i call… and i suppose everybody-else calls… A LOSER…

I KNOW YOU ARE NOT A LOSER
I HOPE YOU ARE NOT A LOSER
I WISH YOU WERE NOT THE LOSER…

Shouldn’t you be directing all your energy into doing something? Anything? Rather than try to dissuade what these guys are doing? True, it won’t solve world hunger, nor bring about world peace. They have never said so in their site. You are merely deducing them using your brilliant skills at rhetoric.

I give you that. Boy, can you shout. Your arguments are logical, well constructed and extremely thought after. You’ve, no doubt, a solid education behind it (in one of those capitalist or evangelical schools you so detest?). And, I don’t have anything against that. But I can’t help but feel sad for you, for the enormous talent that you have and how you are using it.

Sadly, you are not even doing something that’ll help the people you so rightly identified in your earlier comments, so riddled with the ‘f’ word. I am hoping that I am wrong and hope that you are doing something with the mad skills you got.

As for me, I ain’t doing much. I don’t plan to. I just want to save my neck. No, I don’t plan to hide that simple truth behind all the smooth veil of words. I want to save my neck and save my planet’s neck if it means I got to save my neck first. There.

I hope you are using your words and doing something with it.

Best regards for the venomous one,

Looza

On a harder note, do you relate to any of the youth protests that swamped different parts of Kathmandu today (April 6)?

IF you ‘f’ do, I owe you a drink.

And if there are mistakes (all sorts of) in my post as you say, mind you, our takes vary. And you got a lot of nerve to label them mistakes. What camp do you come from – Left, Right or the Center?

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>>>Suv,

PLEASE ‘f’ allow me to comment. You ‘f’ wrote:
“Secondly, I’m sure that the money is better in use if it goes to place like Jumla and Humla in the case of Nepal but there are still few, even among Nepalese who believes in art more than in feeding the hungry. So if Vent and Sattya are reaching out for them, no one should criticize or comment about it.”

Do you know how ‘few’ you guys are and how that ‘f’ few doesn’t represent Nepal. You can’t ‘f’ worship god on an empty stomach. That’s when you know religion is surely like opium and you want to talk about ‘art’. What ‘f’ art are you referring to here? The art of oppressing the masses drunk in inflation? And how the ‘f’ does Vent and Sattya reach out?

To quote your last sentence, “no one should criticize or comment about it”, Who and what the fuck do you think are?

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>>>David
I really appreciate that you took time to post your ‘distant’ view. You really pinpointed the ‘word’ of the day as most of the above commentators (local, aliens & localiens) forget that their views are as distant as you regard yours to be. I respect your honesty.

Now coming to your view that V & S are essential components of the large questions facing Nepal is a judgment which is poor as it can get to say the least. To start with, youth is a forced identity in Nepal (a country with the highest disparity index in Asia) and organizations which have mushroomed in the conflict-ridden decade are more of the dollar manufactured models who don’t have a clue about Nepal’s culture.

I also wonder how many hits V & S gather in a day to even dare to claim such positions when they don’t even show up in the top 100 websites visited in Nepal.
Refer: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/NP

Moreover, the ‘youth’ fraternity which V & S represent doesn’t understand the deep seated Nepali culture (which I think is vital) since they all (if not most) come from the ruling class and this fact is heart-piercing (feels like knocking them off sometimes) and borrowing/burrowing one of Nepal’s ace columnist C K Lal in his most recent article Search for Social Justice to give you a deeper view:

///The most conspicuous achievements of post-1990 economy are the private medical schools that charge an arm, a leg and then some in capitation fees to produce doctors for the poorest country of Asia. The other indicators of capitalism’s progress are the flourishing airlines industry, soaring import of cars and petroleum products and dwindling forest cover in the ecologically most fragile region of the world. However, nothing marks the success of neo-liberalism as distinctively as the culture of consumerism that had dug deep roots in urban society. The piles of refuse on Kathmandu streets testify that consumption pattern has irrevocably changed in the capital city: There are more of leftover food and plastic packets to dispose than ever before.

Shopping malls and extravagant Hindu ceremonies are modern temples and current rituals of the new society. The juxtaposition of symbols is most visible at Kamalpokhari junction in Kathmandu where a generator-powered air-conditioned shopping mall, a decaying police post, a decrepit cultural centre and the spanking headquarters of Poverty Alleviation Fund vie for attention with the imposing Jain Temple, alluring cinema complex and the putrefying pond nearby as hapless pedestrians struggle to find walking space with humongous SUVs honking their way out of the mêlée. That’s a long sentence, but so are the sufferings of innocent bystanders.///

(Note to David: It isn’t just the medical schools but most of the elite private schools where future capitalists are bred, where future hegemony is manufactured. They trip on this fact and a dream such as V & S is born who can’t even relate to how it feels to be a Nepali on the road, forget being an essential ‘what did you say’)

And now that you are actually following the discussion, I appreciate what you’ve been doing in your native country. It’s a pity though, when you portray yourself as an upper hand serving the needy. It speaks of your society and let me tell you bluntly – your right-mindedness is but a mother to situations what failed societies like yours have bred. Your ‘each of us on the planet’ argument sounds like Sunday school and New Age fanatics. You forget that your economically successful background is because it sucks the blood off what your society terms Least Developed Countries. And you assist these parasites by donating money.

It is surely a privilege to not worry about the next meal, David. Ever wondered how Nepal’s trade system has been raped? I agree that those privileged have a role to play but sadly, V & S are a tickle to the largely disintegrated Nepali society, where crisis ticks as you loathe your unnecessary products back home in Portland.

Talk about the audience of V & S, they serve their own communities and not to the audience that really matter. And for once, please stop being so evangelical.

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To go deeper, each of us on the planet has a role to play. As an economically successful member of a wealthy society, I try to be right-minded in daily action. I sometimes volunteer at a homeless shelter. I give my time freely to my religious community. I donate money to various organizations working on behalf of the environment and human justice. I often think carefully about the products I buy and if they are sustainable.
I also am far from doing even more. I walk past beggars on the streets of Portland all the time. My house has many unnecessary products that I purchased without really thinking because it was easy and I had the money. I never have to worry about my next meal.
However, I believe that those of us with privilege have a role to play in making our communities better. Small actions are best because small actions are possible.
Sattya and VENT are working in ways that reach an audience as important as any other. Do not condemn the good works of others. Join them in their efforts or, better, yet start doing good works of your own.
I do believe criticism is important. I also believe that being constructive is essential. Look to move forward. Nepal’s problems are many. In fact, all countries have many problems. Moving towards solutions must happen at the local level. Using energy to be negative slows the path to improvement.

For me what Sattya and hence vent is doing is what people like us have never even thought of. It’s true that not everyone has access to internet but those who have it’s the most easier and cheaper way to contact people and in this case publish a magazine or do some workshop. Secondly, I’m sure that the money is better in use if it goes to place like Jumla and Humla in the case of Nepal but there are still few, even among Nepalese who believes in art more than in feeding the hungry. So if Vent and Sattya are reaching out for them, no one should criticize or comment about it.
that’s all for me.
Namaste!!!!