School of Revolution

When
I came across the lady
I realised
prostitution in this country
is also a powerful action
against the crofty politics.

An ideology of constitution
is bejeweled with embroidered cloth
within the theory of John Hobbes
The Fundamental Rights
are imprisoned within the book of constitution
with elaborated figure of speech
Both system and revolt
in this country are
the smooth balls of chestnuts
which contain nothing
but mildew.

When
I came across the lady
I realized
prostitution in this country
can be better system than democracy.

The image of lord Buddha
and the news of violence
in our nation
are being sold together
selling together are the treason and poetry of sentiments
Yet ! a profiteering profession
of revolution and of security
are being motivated together
Right to Information in this country
is as much secured as the citizens

Aspiration
for the consequences of honesty
in this nation
is a young lady’s desire
for comfortable sexual intercourse
with that man
who is inborn eunuch
though the revolution is not possible without honesty
and the revolution is the primitive hunger of the country

A bottomless sorrow !
There is a heart-breaking sorrow !
What relationship is
among sorrow, prostitution and honesty ?
When
I came across the lady
I realized
A brothel can be
the first school of revolution.

Translated by: – Ram Gopal Ashutosh

14 parliamentarian committees

KATHMANDU, Feb. 23: The meeting of Legislature – Parliament, held Thursday had approved the name lists of parliamentarians to form 14 parliamentarian committees.
Speaker Subhas Chandra Nemwang informed the meeting about the names of the parliamentarians who were included in the committees.
There were 9 committees in previous House of Representatives, whereas present Legislature Parliament has extended the number to 14. The added committees are Administration Reform Monitoring, Agriculture and Cooperatives, Physical Infrastructure and Development, Environment Communication and Technology, Labour and Industrial Relations and Planning and Autonomous Governance.
Following are the names of the committees and their members:

Public Account Committee
Anjana Bisankhe, Shree Krishna Acharya, Krishna Kishor Ghimire, Krishna Pratap Malla, Krishna Lal Maharjan, Khum Bahadur Khadka, Gokarna Raj Bista, Dilaram Acharya, Parashuram Ramtel, Pari Thapa, Pashupati Choulagain, Bharat Kumar Shah, Mani Khumbu, Mahadev Gurung, Mahendra Paswan, Dr. Minendra Rijal, Mohan Bahadur Basnet, Ram Bahadur Bista, Ram Hari Dhungel, Bamdev Kshetri, Bijaya Subba, Shiva Kumar Basnet and Shiva Bahadur Deuja.

Finance Committee
Ananda Prasad Dhungana, Anandi Devi Singh, Keshab Thapa, Jagya Bahadur Shahi, Teeka Budhathoki, Dr. Dilli Raj Khanal, Dev Prasad Gurung, Nanda Singh Sharki, Narayan Prakash Soud, Padam Bahadur Rai, Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat, Bhadra Bahadur Thapa, Bharat Mohan Adhikari, Mahesh Acharya, Rajendra Prakash Lohani, Ram Krishna Tamrakar, Ram Chandra Yadav, Ram Chandra Raya, Binaya Dhwoj Chand, Shila Yadav, Shova Kattel, Suresh Malla and Smriti Narayan Choudhari.

State Affairs Management Committee
Amod Prasad Upadhyaya, Ishwor Pokharel, Uma Bhujel, Kamal Prakash Sunuwar, Kumar Phudung, Chiranjivi Wagle, Janardan Sharma, Devendra Raj Kandel, Parashuram Meghi Gurung, Pashupati Shumsher JBR, Purna Bahadur Khadka, Pradeep Nepal, Rajendra Mahato, Ram Chandra Poudel, Homnath Dahal, Leelamani Pokharel, Hari Acharya, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Sudarshan Baral Magar, Sunil Prajapati, Sushil Koirala, Surya Nath Prasad Yadav and Hridaya Ram Thani.

Administration Reform Monitoring Committee
Gorakh Bahadur Bogati, Akkal Bahadur Bista, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, Dr. Gangadhar Lamsal, Chinak Kurmi, Dilli Raj Sharma, Tirtha Ram Dangol, Padamlal Bishwokarma, Parbati Choudhari, Ranga Nath Joshi, Farmullah Mansur, Manju Bam, Mahendra Bahadur Pandey, Rajendra Kharel, Ramnath Adhikari, Ram Bahadur Gurung, Lekhnath Neupane, Sharat Singh Bhandari, Shiva Raj Hoshi (Dailekh), Sherdhan Rai, Sarala Regmi, Sita BK and Suresh Kumar Ale Magar.

International Relations Committee
Khemraj Bhatta Mayalu, Govinda Bikram Shah, Ganga Narayan Shrestha, Chakra Prasad Bastola, Chandra Bahadur Shahi, Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta, Jhalanath Khanal, Deena Nath Sharma, Narayan Man Bijukchhe, Fatik Bahadur Thapa, Bharat Bimal Yadav, Bhikshu Ananda, Mahendra Yadav, Ram Lout Tiwari, Romi Gouchan Thakali, Shiva Prasad Humagain, Saraswati Mohara, Sabitri Gurung Dura, Surendra Prasad Choudhari, Suresh Kumar Karki, Sushila Nepal and Hitkaji Gurung.

Natural Resources Committee
Chandra Prakash Mainali, Ajaya Pratap Shah, Arjun Prasad Joshi, Asarphi Sada, Ananda Prasad Pokharel, Uma BK, Jagadish Prasad Shah, Dil Bahadur Lama, Devi Khadka, Nagendra Kumar Raya, Narayan Sharma Poudyal, Parodevi Yadav, Puran Rana Tharu, Prakash Jwala, Bharat Prasad Shah, Ram Kummar Choudhari, Hari Roka, Lekhnath Acharya, Lokendra Bista, Basanta Kumar Nembang, Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar and Birbahadur Lama.
Agriculture and Cooperatives Committee
Kailash Nath Kasoudhan, Gopal Prasad Koirala, Govinda Tharu, Dambar Singh Sambahamphe, Danbahadur Choudhari, Umakanta Choudhari, Yeknath Ranabhat, Kunta Sharma, Dileep Maharjan, Duryodhan Singh, Dharma Shila Chapagain, Palten Gurung, Baldev Sharma, Matrika Prasad Yadav, Moti Devi Choudhari, Yagyajit Shaha, Ram Charan Choudhari Tharu, Ram Jeevan Singh, Rupa BK, Bamdev Goutam, Suvash Karmacharya and Sher Bahadur Deuba.

Education, Health and Population Committee
Kaman Singh Lama, Ganga Prasad Nepal, Tanka Prasad Sharma Kandel, Balawati Sharma, Birodh Khatiwada, Beduram Bhusal, Dr. Bamshi Dhar Mishra, Bhagbati Pradhan, Mahendra Kumar Raya, Mangal Prasad Tharu, Mangal Bishwokarma, Yadav Bahadur Rayamajhi, Ram Ashram Ram, Ramjanam Choudhari, Dr. Ram Baran Yadav, Lekh Raj Bhatta, Binod Kumar Upadhyaya, Sabitri Bogati (Pathak), Sushila Swanr, Surya Prasad Pradhan, Hari Bhakta Adhikari and Shree Maya Thakali.

Law, Justice and Legislature – Parliamentary Affairs Committee
Ajaya Kumar Chourasia Barai, Amrita Thapa, Kumari Moktan, Khimlal Devkota, Gambahadur Shrish Magar, Mahendra Giri, Ghanendra Basnet, Janak Raj Giri, Jayanti Rai, Tekbahadur Chokhal, Taranath Ranabhat, Tarinidutta Chatout, Damodar Bastakoti, Durga Linkha, Netra Lal Shrestha, Prabhu Shah, Benupraj Prasain, Bhakta Bahadur Balayar, Birendra Kumar Kanoudia, Ram Prit Paswan, Siddharaj Ojha, Harkaman Tamang and Harihar Dahal.

Physical Infrastructures and Development Committee
Arjun Jung Bahadur Singh, Ashok Koirala, Indrajit Tharu, Iliyas Musalman, Tanka Prasad Rai, Tirtha Goutam, Devilal Thapa, Narayani Devi Shrestha, Purnakumari Suvedi, Buddhiman Majhi, Mahendra Prasad Yadav, Ratna Prasad Sharma Neupane, Lalbabu Pandit, Shanti Pakhrin, Shivaraj Joshi (Surkhet), Shankar Nath Sharma Adhikari, Sita Devi Yadav, Harilal Joshi, Hitbahadur Tamang, Hisila Yemi and Gyanu KC.
Environment, Communication and Technology Committee
Amaresh Kumar Singh, Om Prasad Ojha, Kamala Roka, Krishna Prasad Dahal, Govinda Bahadur Shah, Chandra Mani Kharal, Tukraj Sigdel, Deepak Bahadur Gurung, Nanda Kumar Prasain, Narendra Bahadur Bam, Narayan Prasad Regmi, Balbahadur Rai, Bhakta Bahadur Shah, Bhim Bahadur Tamang, Raghuji Panta, Radheshyam Adhikari, Rupa Choudhari, Laxman Prasad Mehata, Shiva Kumar Mandal, Sarbadhan Rai, Sujata Koirala and Suryaman Dong Tamang.

Human Rights and Social Justice Committee
Ashtalaxmi Shakya (Bohora), Uma Adhikari Regmi, Kamala Panta (Acharya), Kesharman Roka, Govinda Raj Joshi, Jagannath Khatiwada, Jayapuri Gharti Magar, Tanka Ambohang Limbu, Tarasam Yangya, Tilak Pariyar, Dama Sharma, Purna Singh Rajbanshi, Prakash Man Singh, Pradeep Giri, Malla K Sundar, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Yognarayan Yadav, Ram Kumari Yadav, Renu Kumari Yadav, Leela Nyainchyain, Shankar Prasad Pandey, Surendra Hamal and Surya Bahadur Thapa.

Labour and Industrial Relations Committee
Urbadutta Panta, Kashi Poudel, Kulbahadur Gurung, Krishna Kumari Shrestha, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Ganesh Saha, Chudamani Jangali (Bishwokarma), Narayan Prasad Dahal, Paramananda Barma Kurmi, Prem Lal Singh, Phurbi Sherpa, Bala Bahadur KC (Khatri), Mohammad Aftav Alam, Ram Chandra Tiwari, Laxmi Dash Manandar, Lalit Kumar Basnet, Shalik Ram Jamkattel, Satyanarayan Bhagat, Somprasad Pandey and Hari Narayan Choudhari.

Planning and Autonomous Governance Committee
Amrit Kumar Bohara, Hrishikesh Goutan, Krishna Dev Singh Danuwar, Khadga Bahadur BK, Chitra Bahadur KC. Tilkumar Menyangbo (Limbu), Dinbandhu Shrestha, Narabahadur Hamal, Navaraj Subedi, Pushkar Nath Ojha, Prakash Bahadur Gurung, Mitharam Bishwokarma, Mainya Devi Shrestha, Yagya Raj Pathak, Rijwan Ansari, Rima Nepali, Bimalendra Nidhi, Shanta Shrestha, Satya Pahadi, Santosh Kumar Budha Magar, Saraswati Choudhari, Sohan Prasad Choudhari and Hari Prasad Sapkota.

(Courtesy: RSS)

The Mess of Love

(Dear reader, I love reading DH Lawrence very much. His novels, stories as well as poetry are really great. Simple language but great philosophical touch. This poem carries a great philosophical poetic sobriety which necessarily makes you ponder over your passion to your sweatheart. When I feel pessimistic, I read this poem and pacify myself.)

-By D. H. Lawrence

We have made a great mess of love
since we have made an ideal of it

The moment I swear to love a woman, a certain woman,
all my life
That moment I begin to hate her

The moment I even say to a woman: I love you !
My love dies down considerably
The moment love is understood thing between us, we are sure of it
It’s a cold egg, it isn’t love any more

Love is like a flower, it must flower and fade
If it doesn’t fade, it is not a flower
It’s either an artificial rag blossom, or an immortelle,
for the cemetary

The moment the mind interfers with love, or the will fixes on it,
or the personality assumes it is an attribute,
or the ego takes possession of it,
It is not love any more, it is just a mess

And we’ve made a great mess of love, mind-perverted,
will-perverted, ego-perverted

Insult aches rather than a jab

Kalapremi Samuha, a group of young ghazal writers, musicians and singers sent me an ivitation card which consisted two sessions. Ricitation of ghazals, talk and honour programme at Academy consisted the first session and the second was with singing ghazal and dinner at C/W. Sharmila Napit called me and asked to participate both the sessions.

We reached at C/W after the first session. I was together with Kantipur journalist Leela Ballav Ghimire, Ram Mani Sitaula and other two persons to whom I was new. We took our seats. A hasty-nasty person from the organiser approached and said to a person who was with us and unknown to me– Where are you from brother ? He told he was from media.
‘Which media ?’
‘Samay Sarathi.’
‘Sorry, this refreshment is not for media. Please be off.’

We were very badly disturbed and felt insulted though the misbehavior was not with us. We also were mediapersons. He might behave same as with the person. The person who was misbehaved did not leave but we four left the hall.

They invited us to have dinner and fed an insult. We felt the insult ached rather than a jab.

Rakesh Sharma’s Final Solution at Martin Chautari

Final Solution, an Indian documentary by Rakesh Sharma is being shown by Martin Chautari at its Babermahal premises at 3 pm on Feb 15. If you are interested please be there. The entry is free. The synopsis of the film is given below-

Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujarat during the period Feb/March 2002 – July 2003, the film graphically documents the changing face of right-wing politics in India through a study of the 2002 genocide of Moslems in Gujarat. It specifically examines political tendencies reminiscent of the Nazi Germany of early/mid-1930s. Final Solution is anti-hate/ violence as “those who forget history are condemned to relive it”

This documentary has been screened at over 80 international film festivals and has won several international awards.

Discussions take place at Martin Chautari

Poor Valentine poets !

A group of poets are organising a special programme of love poetry recitation at Gurukul on February 14 on the occasion of Valentine Day. What a joke ! Kahin navaeko jatra handi gaunma (The festival which is celebrated nowhere but in Handigaun) !

I don’t mean to say love poetry is totally useless. Love is an important part of human life. Thus, it should be the subject of poetry, too. It means love (man-woman making love) is all in all. Kavita Club, the organiser, is pleading love is all in all. If it is so, why do they wander for earning a livelihood ? Why don’t they make love with opposite sex every moment ?
Besides, Valentine Day has entered this country as a major tool of cultural emperialism and consumerism. On the pretext of Valentine Day, trade fo invitation cards and gifts of crores has been done by the trades. Should the poets not mock at this ? Alas, they are making themselves unknowingly a tool of emperialism and consumerism ! They are very clever to make the programme sellable by including some popular poets like Bairagi Kainla, Shaymal, Shrawan Mukarung, Sharada Sharma, Dinesh Adhikary, Abinash Shrestha etc.
Yes, love poetry recitation programme can be encouraged. Why don’t we choose some minority community love festivals for that ?

Literary manifesto of Dolakha Symposium

I had been to Charikot Sunday evening. A bundle of literateurs including Bairagi Kainla, Khagendra Sangraula, Bimal Niva, Shyamal, Ninu Chapagain, Ishworechandra Gyawali, Sudha Tripathy, Shrwan Mukarung, Narayan Dhakal, Harigovinda Luintel etc. who had fought in April Movement had left on Feb 9.

A two day literary symposium organised by Indreni Sahitya Samaj, Dolakha Sahitya Samaj and Progressive Writers’ Association, Dolakha was held on Feb 10 and 11. They discussed about the way the Nepali literature should take. Ishworechandra Gyawali, Sudha Tripathy and Dr. Govinda Raj Bhattarai had presented their working papers. Every speaker stressed on the role of literateurs for democratic republicanism.

I was a member at the rapporting and manifesto draft committee in which Shyamal was the coordinator and, Thakur Belbase and Bishnu Bhandary were other members. The committee presented seven point manifesto which stressed on the creative interventions of writers for democratic republicanism. I don’t know how it was though it was unanimously passed and appreciated very much.

The programme was really immemorable for me. I was in touch with some hearty friends who are journalists and writers like Chiranjivi Maskey, Rajendra Manandhar, Bhojraj Neupane, Bishnu Subedi. I can’t forget Geeta Shivakoti, Jaya Budhthoki, Biswas Bhandary, Hari Khanal, Jit Karki, legislator Ananda Prasad Pokhrel to whom I was personally unknown but known according to them heartily with my stories and articles. (I am sorry if I have become egocentric). I don’t forget them who had invited me to their home. Thanks my friends.
Thank you Dolakha, you have lent Nepali literature very much.

Mahanta Thakur’s optimism

We know the castle can not be made on air, though Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives and coordinator of the newly formed committee to hold talks with Madhesi groups Mahantha Thakur is optimistic. He said that the Terai problem would be solved through dialogue and negotiations.

The government is ready to hold talks with the agitating sides on all of their demands, he said at a talk organised by Reporters’ Club Nepal this afternoon. “The government is committed to unconditional negotiations.”

Thakur’s team has been given full mandate to hold talks on all of the Terai demands, including proportionate elections, federal structure and redrawing of electoral constituencies based on size of population.

Thakur asked all the concerned parties to go for peaceful means, not violent protests, for the resolution of the problems. “I am confident that the we will be able to hammer out solutions through talks.”

He said that he would soon meet with the Madhesi groups that include Madhesi People’s Rights Forum as well as two groups of Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha, breakaway factions of the CPN (Maoist), seek solution through mutual understanding. Coalition partner Nepal Sadbhavana Party (Anandi Devi) has also supported the protest.

He said he would go to Terai for talks if need be and asked the rebellious forces not to put forth conditions during negotiations. “The government has already expressed its commitment to proportionate elections and a federal structure and we will address other agendas as well.”

He said that the government would assess the damages done during the violent protests in the eastern Terai and provide compensation. He also clarified that the government would not mobilise army to quell the violence.

Wish you a great success Minister Thakur.