आज तेस्कै सम्झनामा। अन्तिम सुक्रबार

PART I: WRITTEN ON 6th August, 1990

आज तेस्कै सम्झनामा। अन्तिम सुक्रबार
त्यो दिन अझै मलाई याद छ। आज म त्यो दिनलाई अन्तिम सुक्रबारको नाम दिन्छु। त्यो दिन उ ओर्लियो कोटीको सडकमा। कालो शिशा भएको पहेलो बसबाट। बिच सडकमा कुद्दै गरेको हैदराबादी बसबाट ओर्लिएकोले उ हतार हतार गरेर बाटोको साइड लाग्यो। हुन पनि कती हर्न बजाका हुन है राडा राडी ले त्यो कोटिको जङ्सन्मा प्य प्या प्या एकोहोरो

उ दौडदै छेउ लाग्यो आन्ध्रा बैंकको साइडतिर। अनी लुरु लुरु हिणिरह्यो बाटोको छेवै छेउ
उ असाध्यै छिटो हिन्छ मानौ उ असाध्यै हतार मा छ। बिस्तारै त हिन्नै जान्दैन उ। जब हिन्छ उ कोटिको सडकमा आज त्यसरी उ त्यसरी नै हिड्दै छ। दाँया बाँया कतै नहेरी र केही नसुनी।

एकमन ता बोलाउ की जस्तो लाग्यो उस्लाई तर बोलाइन के सुन्दो होला र भनेर। तेसै त मान्छे नै एस्तो छ कि उ हतार मा छ भने उ ता हत्तपत्ती कसैलाई हेर्दा पनि हेर्दैन र चिन्दा पनि चिन्दैन।

फेरी अस्ती हाम्रो कोठामा केटाहरुको चिया धेरै थोरै भएको नाथे कुरोमा झगडा भये पछी ता उस्ले म सग पटक्कै कुरा गर्नै छोडेकोछ। उ भन्छ रे त्यो झगडामा मैले कुनाल लाई सप्पोर्ट् गरे रे। नाथे झुशी कुरामा पनि के झगडा गर्न जानेका हुन केटा हरुले।

मलाई याद छ। त्यो केटो हैदराबाद आउँदा कस्तो थियो। उमेर मा उ म भन्दा जेठो भयेपनि मलाई दाजु भन्थ्यो अनी मैले पनि उस्लाई भाई नै जस्तो मानेको थिए। तर आज सम्झन्छु ति अतित का दिन हरु लाई।।।।।।

एक्छीन सम्म हेरीरहे उस्लाई केही पर पुगुन्जेल तर त्य्स पस्चात् त्यो मानब सागर मा हरायो। म पनि वोमन कलेज को साइड नै साइड लागेर अफ्जाल्गन्ज हुँदै चारमिनार तर्फ लागे नमाज पढ्न भनेर. फेरी आफ्रीन लाई पनि त भेट्नु पर्नेथ्यो।।। लागे हतार हतार गरेर।

त्यो अन्तिम दिनथियो। त्य्सपछी उस्लाई मैले कहिले पनि देखिन. न ता सुने नै उस्को बारेमा। हिजो बेलुका फर्बिसगन्ज मा भेट भयो मेरो नवलपरासी का पुराना मित्र रामरोशन जि सग। राम रोशन जि भन्दै थिए उ अहिले सिक्किम मा छ रे। सोच्छु के गर्दै होला त्यो केटो। आज तेस्कै सम्झनामा। 

PART II: Written on 10th August, 1991 and added some postscript on 10th August, 2010
मेरो माथिको सत्यता मा आधारित् छोटो निबन्धलाई लिएर धेरै धम्कियुक्त कल र ईमेल हरु प्राप्त भएका छन। साथै धेरै जना साथी हरुको जिज्ञासा ले भरिएको मेल हरु पनि प्राप्त भएका छन। मुख्यता ति मेल हरु को बिषयबस्तु यो निब्न्ध कस्को बारेमा लेखिएको हो भन्ने मा आधारित् छ। साथी हरुको तिनै जिज्ञासा शान्त पार्न यो दुई चार शब्द थपेको छु। 

कुरो तेस्तै सन १९९० को हो। म हैदराबाद्को मौलाना आजाद उर्दु विश्वाबिद्यालयमा हिन्दी साहित्यमा एमए गर्दै थिए। त्य्स बखत हामी धेरै साथी हरु सगै बस्थीउ। केही साथी हरु जस्लाई म सम्झन्छु ति जमाना का- तिनिहरु थिए सौरभ ज्ञानी भट्ट ‘हावा’ , अमिताव चौधरी, आमुल्चन्द्र टपोरी, अशोक चभ्हन, बिशेष ‘स्वदेशी’ बिदेश पुरी, दिपक ‘किपर’ यादव,सुजित वीर बिक्रम शाह, सुनिल थापा कुमार चौधरी, कुनाल मुनाल शाह तेली, दिपक तेली शाह, ब्रोजेश कुमार ‘जी’ भित्र, राम रोशन ‘मनविलास’ शाह, र पवन्कुमार चाम्लिङ आदी। धेरै को ता नाम पनि भुली सके। 

म १९९० मा एमए को दोश्रो बर्ष मा थिए। तेस बखत साथी हरु को बिच्मा सामान्य मन मुटाव र झगडा भै नै रहन्थ्यो – झगडा हुनुका मुल कारण हरु टाइम मा खाना नबनाउनु, आफ्नो पालोमा खाना नबनाउनु, साथीको पैसा लगेर समयमा फिर्ता नगरनु, केटी लाई लिएर फिल्म हेर्न जान पैसा हुनु तर साथी लाई तिर्न नहुनु र तेस्ताइ चिया धेरै थोरै हुनु आदी थिए। 

मैले माथिको निबन्ध १९९० मा जब पवन्कुमार चाम्लिङ लाई देखे तेसै बखत लेखेको हो। तर यो मेरो पुरानो डैरी मै लुकेको थियो। १९९१ मा बनारस फर्किए। हिन्दी मा बनारस हिन्दू विश्वाबिद्यालय बाट पिआच्डी (बिध्यबरिधी) गर्ने मौका पाएर। तेस बखत मूगलसरए मा भएको पचासौ हिन्दी भाषा सम्मेलन मा भाग लिने क्रम हुँदै रिसर्च को लागि फर्बिस्गन्ज जादा मेरो राम रोशन ‘मनविलास’ शाह सग भेट भएको हो। उहाले नै मलाई पवन्कुमार सिक्किम गयो भनेर सुनाउनु भयो।

मैले १९९३ मा मेरो बिद्यावारीधी समाप्त भये पस्चात सिमला बाट प्रकासीत हुने ‘दल्हौजी केसरी’ भन्ने हिन्दी पत्रीका को सम्पादक भएर काम गर्ने मौका पाए। सन २००० सम्म तेसै पत्रीकामा काम गरे पछि सरकार द्वारा मलाई सन २००० मा चन्दिगढ मा खुलेको राष्ट्रिय हिन्दी विश्वाबिद्यालय को डिनमा नियुक्ती गरीयो। आज सन २०१० मा सो विश्वाबिधयलय ले १० बर्ष पुरा गरेको खुशीमा हामीले ‘पठानकोट जर्नल’ निकालेका छौ। तेही जर्नल बाट केही अंश माथि प्रस्तुत गरिएको छ। 
यो कुरा याद रहोस् कि यो निबन्ध मा भएका सबै ब्यक्ती को नाम जिवित ब्यक्ती हरुको हो। यो नाम कसै सग मिल्न ठ्यक्कै मिल्न गएमा 
सम्योग मानिने छैन। तर यि नामहरु कसैको नाम सग नमिलेको तर सुने जस्तो जस्तो अथवा मिले मिले जस्तो लगेमा केवल सम्योग मात्रै हुनेछ। यो लघु निबन्ध पहिले हिन्दी मा ‘पठानकोट जर्नल’मा प्रकासित् भएको हो। यस्लाई नेपाली मा अनुवाद गर्न सहयोग गर्ने मेरी पिए तिखी ‘कुमारी’ सिँघ बहिनी धन्यवादकी पात्र छीन।

मेरो मुटु भित्र बाट लेखेको एउटा नेपाली गीत

मेरो मुटु भित्र बाट लेखेको एउटा नेपाली गीत
तिमीलाई यो मनको कुरा भन्न गार्हो भो
पिडा मनभित्र लुकाएर हास्न सार्हो भो

भन्न मन लागेको कुरा भन्न सक्दिन
मेरा आशु आज्काल रोक्न सक्दिन

तिमीलाई यो मनको कुरा भन्न गार्हो भो
पिडा मनभित्र लुकाएर हास्न सार्हो भो

दोस मेरै हो प्रिया तिमीलाई गुमाउनुमा
रोक्न सक्दिन आफ्नो आशु तिमी साथ नहुँदा
रोएर नै मेरो जीवन बित्ने भयो प्रिये
तर तिमी हास सधैं खुशी को त्यो सागर मा

तिमीलाई यो मनको कुरा भन्न गार्हो भो
पिडा मनभित्र लुकाएर हास्न सार्हो भो

जाउ जाउ टाढा तिमी अब नआउ मेरो नजिक
हासोस संसार तिमीसगै तिम्रो खुशी सगै

तिमीलाई यो मनको कुरा भन्न गार्हो भो
पिडा मनभित्र लुकाएर हास्न सार्हो भो

Talking something simple things

We go to office to work. That is simple as we all do. But what is interesting in human life  sometimes is you will go to office but do not do anything as you do not feel like doing anything. Sometimes, you go to office so early in the morning and try to do everything as either, but in rare cases, you enjoy doing something, or most of the times, deadlines matter you and your boss or superior tells you to do that within given time.

About me, working is boring. It’s so boring that sometimes, I wish to throw them on someone’s head and run away from office far somewhere where there is no work, no deadlines, no corporate responsibility, where there will be no boss and even mobile signals will be nil so that clients will not disturb me unnecessarily. I have heard that in Nepal’s mobile tower is bad, I mean there is poor network or connection but in Nepali people say, “Tower Gayo”, literally means Tower left/walked away. May be these places and corners and hills of Nepal are made for me where ‘Tower walks away’ because of poor infrastructure.

Today, I am talking about very simple things. What I work is most of the times indirect tax implications on infrastructure projects. Like, Government wants to make National Highway or some roads. Let us say that government gives that contract to some company A and company A can sub-contract that contract to three other companies. That’s how work is done in India and there arises various tax implications like excise, may be customs if things are brought from outside India, state level VAT and Central Sales Tax and Entry tax and such others. Here, I need to remind myself that I am not going to talk about complex tax issues but very plain issue of infrastructure in our society. We have poor countries, and we are residing and citizen of developing countries. I do not know why we are poor. May be we were poor and still, we are poor. People say Infrastructure plays a big role to develop any areas. If they, who claim to be expert, say, then, this must be true.

Now, talking about infrastructure, we need a lot of them. We need Road as we do not have them. We need two lane road, four lane road, six lane road, eight lane road, and only one way express highway depending on the place. We need culverts and Bridges on these roads. We need Electricity on these roads, and streetlights in city areas, then, we need telephone, mobile phones where tower does not walk away. We need clean drinking water, and we need schools, colleges, Hospitals, Public recreational centers like park, and Road safety mechanism. The list for the time should stop here. It is not that long, is it? But when can our governments fulfill these small lists. Can poor people of poor country get these 8-10 things first before they hear making five star hotel in Moon?

I think it is simple to give these things, isn’t it? But, then, why government can not give these small things to us, poor people. Let’s work on simple things first before venturing into nonsense hi-fi stuffs.

I rest my case for the day.

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: https://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!!!

  

 

 

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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