Part II-But of What?

[Some part of this post was written on 31st December and has been completed now and just today. So, it contains at the end, more than what exactly was intended on that day. I hope that you all will enjoy.]

 

In my part I blog, I was talking at the end, my room and thin blanket. Let us see my room first. How does it look like? It looks very dirty, that is sure as I am very lazy to clean and not only me but my room members are also too lazy, and some even more lazy/lazier than me. It’s okay; it is their human rights to be lazy in a same fashion like mine. One more thing, these days, I am not in my regular room. Regular room-I mean, my usual University Hostel Room, which is my not only whole world but an entire universe and that remain always dirty occupied by a single member-me. Now and these days, my university is closed and is My University Hostel and we are not allowed to stay in that Hostel Room. So, I am like a refugee and staying with some of my kind hearted and very very helpful friends like Prashant, Kul Chandra and Ashok. There we live, many many people, about a dozen these days and very amicably and in a very friendly manner, till I am writing this another crap.

 

Now, let’s look at what we do regularly in our room. We never forget to do two very great and important things in our room. We regularly eat and quite happily sleep.

 

We sleep these days like animal and sometimes, even more happily than some of these animals in this world. We live a very carefree life though we know that many challenges are waiting for us.

 

I had made a reference about sleeping and thin blanket on my earlier post in part I of this blog, if u remember rightly. Most of you might be wearing thick woolen clothes and must be sheltering inside Nepali Sirak or some Chinese or foreign blankets that too under a very thick blanket. U must do it. If you are from delhi, u might be reeling under 2-3 Degree Celsius or if u are from kathmandu, temperature might be there around 5 degree Celsius and what about London and Astana????? I am sure that these all places have nice and pretty winter with a temperature that I personally like.

 

But, Dude, the story is different here. The people who are born and brought up here say that this year, it is cooler than all previous year. Might be! I can not feel it as last year, I had felt it hot and so, I do feel this year. Let me tell u situation here that, a normal cotton shirt from morning to evening will work as more than a blanket if you stay inside house. If you go out in the day time, you feel very hot. This is a place which is different and so, generally is South India.

 

So, thin blanket in the night serves all the purpose for what it is required here and that too switching on the fan. We need to switch on the fan before we sleep, and that is the story of this place.

 

The place is like this and there is nothing good or bad about the place as hot n cold environment is all about Nature. People stay here irrespective of what kind of temperature is here and so, I lived in this place for last five years and that experience is always good to remember.

 

While, I started writing this post on 31st December, I had some certain other issues in my mind but today, when I am about to complete this, there is nothing that I remember that I wanted to write. So, if I make u feel bored coz of this incessant talk about this place, u just need to forgive me.

           Before, I part with his blog entry, I am sincerely thankful to Yogesh, a learned Senior brother, (for law graduates, two lawyers are always ‘learned brothers’) for taking his some time off from his rigorous study life and making some comments on my blog. I know, these days, hardly anyone reads me and even few bother to encourage by commenting. In such a draught situation, the efforts of Yogesh Sir were very encouraging to me and wish him and all the readers a great success in life. Keep on Reading!!!!! 

Happy New Year 2008-Part I

I am interning these days in Hyderabad in a corporate office. I was in New Delhi in the month of November to complete my one month internship in a Law Firm. At the end of the month in November, I came back to Hyderabad and joined this new Office where I will be for some more days.These days, internship has become part of life of every student and in fact, it should be. It keeps everyone updated with latest developments and teaches you the skills of working. I hope that I am getting it.

Generally, my work keeps me busy quite often and at this moment also, I am not that jobless but I thought for a while, to write something here as I have not penned down anything in these past two months.Again, the policy of limited use of internet in other activities except than research activities required to this firm does not allow me to use this internet connection for any other purposes than my daily job requirements. These days, I spend my 5 days in a week in this job place except Saturday and Sunday and each day minimum 14 hours and that goes to the extent of 17 hours as well. The job is rigorous, to put it plainly and frankly, I do not enjoy working that much but I know that this is a part of life.

I always thought that Studying is the toughest task human beings will perform but now, I have realized that working is thousands time tougher than study but this is too late as I am at the verge of graduating from my University and ready to take up challenges- working somewhere and earning some good amount.When I say that I am not enjoying working that does not mean that I am working in a place where I do not enjoy.

I am generally referring to my normal response to work as all human beings, naturally, love to be lazy if they get some way to earn and make a living. In fact, where I am working is one of the best places to work and we have very great office environment. When someone gives you a good environment, it is obvious that they demand quality work and for what we all are born.I understand that as I am just an intern, the pressure I get from job is obviously less than that of regular employees and I am mentally being ready to get that tough challenge on my shoulder after I pass out from the University in coming May, 2008.

For the knowledge of those who do not know me much, I will be completing my B.A; L.L.B (Hons.) in this coming May, 2008.2008-right! That starts from tomorrow. Tomorrow is a new year of 2008 and is first of January. Let me wish all of you a happy and very great New Year. Let this coming year make you healthy, wealthy and very prosperous from all fronts. May Almighty god bless you to live a very comfortable life. That’s it! Too much for New Year.In my blog, when I talk about me, I am not too much enthusiastic about this New Year. For me, it is just another day and goes as simple and as usual. Till now, while writing this piece of crap, I have no plans at all to celebrate New Year which is just 6 hours far from me and apparently, I will be leaving office only after 9PM Indian Standard Time.

Hopefully, by the time, I reach to the room, my friends will have started cooking some good food-good food, for me, is something that contains “any” non-veg stuff. Yes, do not be surprised, any means anything so long as it is clean, healthy and non-poisonous assuming there are some poisonous animals in the world. Now, again going back to the New Year, I have no plans and not much enthusiasm but I can see people around here-in and out of office, with loads of happiness on their face. I simply fail to understand why and not in mood of understanding any reason behind that happiness and neither asking them nor commenting on it, let them be happy because they deserve it after a long and long working ordeals.

I can hear that there are various parties in Hyderabad City tonight. I am not party animal and simply love to be away from such lights, music and too much jazzy stuffs. Somebody is telling me that there is a party which costs Rs. 3000 (Indian Rupees) for a night. I am not interested as I am not party animal and another thing is that that is simply beyond my reach and ability to afford. There are other reasons also not to attend these kinds of parties as I gave up drinking. Gave up in the sense that I used to drink rarely, in a good societal word, “used to drink socially”. I felt that I am very unsocial on such social drinking and these days refused to be social at all when the issue of drinking comes. I do not feel proud of what I decided but I simply feel good that I took one right decision in my life as it affects me-deciding not to drink. And, I believe that parties without drinking and liquor are like “curry without pinch of salt” for most of the people and I love to give them that freedom but do not want to sound and be awkward in that gathering. I think that these must be the valid points why I stay far from these social gathering which are especially arranged at night. In night, there is nothing comfortable like my Room and my bed with thin blanket.

Part 2 is coming shortly………………….  

From another City

I just read an Article from Wall street Journal written by Krishna ji along with his friend. It was a good one to read something after a long break because of my exams. My Usual seat is my University Hostel Room in Hyderabad. But, I am far now, I am far from there, and very far-almost about 1600 Kms far in New Delhi-Capital of India. I am here for my Internship for a month in a law firm that I am joining tomorrow.  I have just arrived here today. I am staying with Krishna Ji and Madhu before I shift to some Paying Guests. We will search for that tomorrow. 

I am here in Delhi around 11 AM this morning after a very long journey of Train. Usually, Train takes 26 Hours to reach Delhi from Hyderabad but this morning the train was delayed by two hours taking around 28 Hours.It was a good morning of 27th October when I left Hyderabad. 26th October was a KoJAGRAT PURNIMA-the last day

 of Dashain. We all, Kul sir, Ashok Bhai, and Deepak Ji, decided not to sleep whole nights and played cards and watched TV along with our unstoppable chita chat. We did not know why we decided not to sleep. We did not really care about religious aspects of this festival but merely decided to wake up whole night. Morning was cool. We all came to railway Station. Kul, Ashok and Deepak ji came to see me off and it was so nice to take Bus instead of little expensive autos.  Hope to see all in Hyderabad after a month as I am going back at that time.Will be updating this whenever I have time and of Course, I have to say keep on reading!!!

Dashain, Nepal and Business-some Thoughts

Today and appropriately tonight, I am planning to write another blog as well. Just I am thinking to utilize my little time writing some of my thoughts here.

 

Let me start my blog with my activities today. Today, got up at 8.40 AM and ran to class and made sure that I was in when it was 9 AM that means I got attendance. Attendance will have so much value in my University that if I have less than 75 percentages, I am not allowed writing exams.

 

We had two classes- One Clinics and another one was International Trade Law and after that, that means after 10.30 AM, our presentation of International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) started. It was so painful to attend that Presentation. It went on from 10.30 in the morning to 8.30 PM in the night with two breaks for Lunch and Tea. Total time that we got as breaks were 1.30 hours. Can you imagine how tire I am here now???

 

Anyway, who cares? Tomorrow, I have to attend again ICA. I have to present my own draft in that class and from there; I head to Advanced Intellectual Property Rights Laws (Advanced IPR) class. In Advanced IPR also, I have to present tomorrow. That effectively means, I have to prepare on two drafts tonight and by tomorrow evening, I am sure that my ass will be burnt down to ashes.

Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow and let me see. I am not bothered on these stuffs right now. I am still in the mood of Dashain as I just posted one entry wishing you all good Dashain. Once Again, Wish you an auspicious Dashain.

Now, going to what I did tonight after I came from Class and what I am planning to write here. I just visited some Nepali News sites. These days, I read about Politics but stopped thinking about this. So, Naturally, I read politics less if I hate to think and started searching apolitical and non-political news and stuffs. I visited some of the blogs. One of those blogs that I visited is Nepal Diary. See Here: http://nepaldiary.wordpress.com/

I used to visit this blog regularly but had not been updated for a long time. Now, it seems that Nepal Diary is being updated regularly.

One of the posts that attracted my eyes was this: http://nepaldiary.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/%e0%a4%97%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a5%e0%a4%a8-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%a8%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%a5%e0%a4%a8/

This post truly depicts the Nepal’s situation where business transactions are not taking place in rapid scale despite Dashain being just few days away. I have translated that post here and tried to post a common Nepali man’s problems. I think this is a problem of many small scale businessmen.

The post goes like this:

“Now a day, I do not have Cyber Connection in my room and updating my blog sometimes from Cyber Cafes. I am a man living in a small business and there is a whole nation on spree of business. Because of being busy in usual business, I am not able to update my blog regularly. Because of Nepali’s great festival Dashain, there is a big crowd in my shop as well though my shop is a small one. You can come there even if you just want to see-my shop, and crowd and may be blogger as well. My shop is in New Road, more precisely on Khicha Pokhari (blogger is referring to a place where usually, there will be crowd) and there happens to be a great crowd around. There is no place even to stand there on your foot. But, in this Dashain, there is not much sale. What happened? May be people do not have any money? Today, I went to Thapa Thali located Nepal Rashtra Bank to make some changes of currency-from higher denomination to smaller ones. But, Bank says that they do not have currencies of 10 Rs. And 50 Rs. And only of 5 Rs. And 20 Rs. Now, if Bank does not have any money, how common people will have!!! I think that is the reason of businesses going down and sliding further down.

Now, let’s talk about Dashain. How are you celebrating this Year’s Dashain? I think you are going to butcher a goat for meat and other delicious non-vegetarian foods. Whatever you do, but celebrate in a great way, and wherever you may be- in Nepal or outside in foreign Land.  So many people have extended republic wishes in this Dashain. But, I do not know what kind of wishes should I extend for you. Okay, okay I am extending Federal Republican Dashain wishes. Let Great Lord ease the process of achieving Federal Republic Nepal. I am being here more revolutionary and not just bourgeoisie!!!!”

 

Wish you all a Great Dashain and Subha Vijaya Dashami.

Once again-Another Dashain

I am updating this Blog after a Long Time. It has been very tumultuous months for me in the recent past. Nothing wrong and nothing bad at all but the enthusiasm factor has gone down. This is not a good sign. After a long time, I am gathering some energy to update this Page. First of all, I would like to extend my Good Blessings to you all on auspicious occasion of Bada Dashain and Happy Vijaya Dashami. May Lord Durga bless you all!!!

We can term this Blog entry as a kind of Dashain Blog. I am concentrating all my thoughts on Dashain and some nostalgia.

 

I just today watched my blog statistics and found that total 4 people visited me today. I remember there used to be one occasion where around 200 people used to visit my blog daily. I could not give continuity and the slide of Blog started. I am here to blame myself for my erratic behaviour and Today, this erratic behaviour costed me some of my valuable readers and some of the people who used to appreciate my writings. Today, my blog looks like a desert and no one bothers to visit. Some people, I can see still here roaming over my blog. Those people must like a thirsty deer that runs towards a desert by seeing a mirage-that is lake full of water. I do not know, If this blog is just a mirage for someone but my sincere thanks to all who are offering their little time to visit this Blog. Thank you all of you!!!!

 

While going through statistics of my blog, I saw that somebody has visited my blog after being referred by Google. I just clicked the link to know what had been searched in Google that directed the viewer to my Blog. The referral link is like this:

http://www.googlee.com/search?hl=en&q=dashain%20theme

That means, someone searched Dashain Theme and my blog entry appeared at number 4. The blog post referred there was my entry that I posted last year in 2006 on occasion of Dashain(See here for last year’s entry: http://talkingforum.wordpress.com/2006/09/23/dashain-aayo/ ). Oh My God! How fast time passes and we are just at the door of another Dashain.

 

Dashain Aayo, Khaula Piula, Kaha Paula—- like these, used to be the songs that we used to sing in our childhood. Staying together with brothers, sisters, parents and celebrating Dashain used to give us that pleasure for what we always waited for another Dashain. But, it has been a long gap of 5 years and I am not in my home in Dashain and neither in Tihar to mention here. I hope to break this continuity from next year onwards but who knows what happens next year.

 

Khana ani launa ta paiye kai chha in these last five years but napaiyekai euta kura chahi ho Dashain Manauna.

 

Though I will not be enjoying much in this Dashain, I once again, wish happy Dashain to all of you who can celebrate this.

 

Dashain Aayo!!! Happy Dashain!!!

  

 

 

Fiscal Policy of Federal Nepal-Part I

 

Revenue Sharing Policy of Federal Nepal- Part I

By Chamatkaribaba (who is also busy making his brand new photo blog http://travelindiaphoto.blogspot.com )

Nepal has since long plunged into a state of anarchy because of the failures of democratic institutions. These failures were because of mainly two reasons:

1) Because political leaders invested little time to save democratic institutions and;

2) There were targeted actions from autocratic and regressive forces, more particularly to blame is King and his coterie.

The second cause was lately realised by these political leaders and by that time, already, state of state was statelessness.
A lot of things happened after that mainly, People’s Uprising in 2006, April and have put Democratic institutions back on track, if not democratic virtues. There are a lot of things those have to be done. The debate on political aspects of democracy; and state has received a lot of ink from various people from different walk of life. But, it seems that economic aspect of functioning of state has been completely shadowed.

This blog tries to provide a glimpse of what should happen on the economic aspects of New Nepal.
The recent news buzz is all about Federal State of Nepal. A lot of gangs and groups are fighting for that. People who belong to Terai Region, people from Janajatis, Dalits, Adivashis, Limbuwan people, Khumbuwan and people from Chure Bhawar area are fighting for federal democracy.
All seem to be agreeing on the need of federal state except its modalities how to form it. Some are voicing for Fully Proportional Election system and some are against it. Most of the Nepal’s political debate is revolving around Constituent Assembly Election, its success.
Very few are debating on the issues of Fiscal Policy once Nepal becomes Federal State. This is very important for the sustenance of democracy, for the sustenance of state, for the sustenance of each federal province/county (by whatever name it is called) and for their progress.
This issue assumes significance because of Nepal’s Geographical Location. All parts in Nepal do not earn same amount of revenue. The Terai, plain Region is more accessible by Roads and Transports. It is easier to do any kind of national and international business from that region. The Terai Region shares its boundary with India, with which Nepal has a maximum third country business. The goods made in Nepal are exported through Terai Region and goods imported in Nepal mostly come from this Terai Region.

Kakarbhitta, Biratnagar, Birgunj, Janakpur, Siraha, Bhairahawa, Butawal, and Mahendranagar are some of the towns in Nepal which has good Road Transport system with Indian Boarder Cities.

The Cereal, Paddy, Wheat, Oil and Gases, Salt, Clothes, Heavy Machinery, Transport related Gadgets, Clothes, and other stable food grains are mostly imported through this route and a little like Vanaspati Ghee, Noodles, Copper Wire are exported to India and via India to Bangladesh, Bhutan etc.
Because of these enormous economic activities, a lot of revenue will be collected in this region which substantially helps in development of the country.

Nepal’s other parts are Himalayan Region and Hilly areas. They lack good Roads and Transport Systems. Very little economic Activity happens there. Some Hydroelectric Power plant located here and there, local textiles, local papers, and some food stuffs like Alainchi, Amriso are the major products of this area. Even those goods produced here are either marketed in Terai Region like in Nepalgunj, Birgunj, and Birtamod or through Terai Region; these products are sent to outside the country. So, because of lack of systematic markets in hilly and Mountainous areas, all trading activities happen in Terai and most of the revenues from these goods are received by Terai Region.

The Himalayan Region shares Border with China in Northern part but very little activity happens there because of lack of any good Transport Systems except in Tatopani Customs Office.
In this Scenario, we need to think what happens when Nepal is divided into a Federal State? How Economic Resources are collected and how they are distributed?
Who, either Center or Provincial Government, will have power, by Constitution, to collect and distribute such revenue and by what proportion?

This is a question that needs to be meticulously analysed and answers have to be found out. We need such answers that do not bring unequal distribution of wealth among regions. We emphasise that distribution of revenue should be made in such a way that does not hamper regional progress.

This author is trying to search some of the best possible answers in coming days, analysing the issues from Constitutional, Economical, and from Fiscal Policy view point.

Be with us!

Originally Published in Bhup’s Blog in Vision Developed Nepal

 

Constututional Assembly Debates: An example

This is a small piece of Constitutional Assembly Debates in India that took place while forming India’s Constitution. They are very great source of law and study of it gives us idea how the issues are debated in Assembly. This is just a piece. For full Reading, Follow the instruction provided in the Article.

The Name of the person is the one who is speaking and in brackets, it gives us idea where he came from and what is his designation. They are talking on very many issues that you know when you read it. The name and designation is not so important, focus on the texts and what they have to say on a particular topic.

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जोखिमपूर्ण जातीय विभाजन/Risky ethnic Devides.

(In the series of Consolidating Debates on Constituent Assembly Election and prospects of Federalism, these two articles in Nepali and translation in English have been published here. I agree most of the points presented in this Article.) 

जोखिमपूर्ण जातीय विभाजन
डा. आलोक बोहरा
कसरी युगौंदेखिका नेपाली समस्याको समाधान नेपाललाई जातीय धारमा विभाजन गरेर सम्पन्न गर्न सकिन्छ ? जातीय तथा लैंगिक विभेद, आर्थिक अभाव, पश्चिमी पहाडका भोकमरी तथा खाद्य सुरक्षाका समस्या, कमजोर प्रशासन संयन्त्र, स्वास्थ्य सेवाको अभाव, पर्यावरणीय असन्तुलन, सहरी अपराधहरू, बढ्दो जनसंख्याको चाप, बेरोजगारी, शैक्षिक भिन्नता, प्राकृतिक प्रकोपहरू जस्तै- तराईको बाढी सामना गर्ने असमर्थता, बालश्रम, चेलीबेटी बेचबिखन, सामन्ती प्रथा कतिपय अकर्मण्यता इत्यादि सबै नेपाली समस्या हुन्, कि मधेसी, लिम्बुवान, बाह्मण  

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Constituent Assembly Election and Federal System

[Though I disagree with the learned Authors on some of the minor points in this Article, I hope that this Article will make an interesting and educative reading. I will make some of my "notes of dissent" clear after some days, in a separate Article.]

 

By Surendra R Devkota and Shiva Gautam

 

Nepal, since its existence, never had a citizen-centered governance structure. All state machineries during the Rana and earlier regimes were focused on only tax collection from the citizens and power consolidation at the center.

 

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Come One, Come All To Vote Your Destiny: Election Commission

[ My few Words: This article is a copy-paste Article written by Dinesh Wagle in United We Blog. I have copied this article from UWB's website as it helps to spread information about Constituent Assembly Election in Nepal. For further information about its original publication, see the bottom of this Article. All Copyrights over the Article and images belong to Original Authors.]

By Dinesh Wagle

As part of its unprecedented campaign, Election Commission will send 8 thousand volunteers in each and every house of all villages of Nepal to deliver invitation cards: You and your family members [who are registered at the Commission] are heartily invited to the nearby voting both for the Constituent Assembly election on November 22.

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An invitation to your family to vote. Sketch by Dewen via Kantipur

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Random Feelings without dream

I have NO Dream
Sounds pessimistic? Right. Of Course, let’s talk about pessimism sometimes. Let’s talk about dark things in life. Life is not only spring; it passes through many many cold winters. You tell me, are not you felt bored, sad, unhappy, and angry in life? You have man, you must have. Then, why do not you talk about those things?

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Something politically motivated!!!!

I have not written anything in my blog so many days. So, feeling like I have missed out something.
I am somewhere far from my temporary-but-usual place. People call it Hi-Tech City. Yes, Hi-Tech City of Hyderabad. Flooded with fancy buildings, fancy offices with fancy names. It has given job to many, status to many, and of course, quick bucks to many. Hi-Tech City in Hyderabad is a part of changing Hyderabad to Cyberabad.

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NEPAL in a New Height

It is a great pleasure for this blogger to share this News with its Readers. The date for Constituent Election (Sambidhan Sabha) has been declared in Nepal and It is going to be Mansir 6, according to Nepali Calender, i,e; November 22, 2007.

This is an election that decides the fate of ill fated monarchy in Nepal. That means, the oppressive royal regime and its coterie in Nepal can not impose their criminal, anti-social and undemocratic actions on 27 million freedom loving people. Read more »

A Nepali Gazal-Just a try.

If you are reading my blog for quite a long time, You know that how happy I could be if I write or read Gazal in Nepali. I love my language, literature and specially Gazals written in Nepali Language. It’s not my first attempt to write Post in Nepali.

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THE LAST ONE TO INCREASE VISIBILITY

[I have Copied this Article from Asis’ blog wothout any prior PERMISSION. I hope that he will permit me to do this one and I hope that he will not comment here to remove this Article from here. I am not totally convinced about this viral Tag stuffs and do not really know how it will work. But, I hope that it works nevertheless. This is the fourth and the LAST ONE in this series of increasing viewers. My Blog can not consume more than this. I will be back with my own usual stuffs within few times. Please visit Blog pages of my friends Sajiva and (Ashish) http://alapot.blogspot.com/ as well and cerainly , do not forget to drop some comments here. Read more »