Too many questions below. And do they all need answers, really ? Have no idea. A handful of Tribhuvan University professors have come up with a new idea that Bhramans and Chhetris are also Indigenous to Nepal which is not true. The other IPs (indigenous peoples) tell all they are marginalized, disgraced and disadvantaged. So it seems everyone is indigenous to Nepal, doesn’t it ?
Few questions here instead. So who are the IPs ( indigenous peoples) of Nepal ? And what makes a person indigenous to a certain land ? Is it the physiognomy only a person becomes indigenous to a certain country or aside what other factors are the required bases for a person becoming indigenous, if not from the international inference, at least only from Nepalese ‘soil-standard’ ? And how come Brahmans and Chhetris indigenous to Nepal ? When did they arrive in Nepal and what had resulted in their arrivals so far ? Do arrivals make someone indigenous to some country ?
It is not the arrivals only that make a person indigenous to some land; there are languages and cultures that also determine someone becoming indigenous. There are many other markers including a share in the distribution of national wealth and representation in the national level, including policy levels: in other words, in the executive, in judiciary and in legislative also.
Education is not a privilege. Why can’t all Nepalese children go to school ? Education is a right and the state is entitled to offer education to all its people. The Teendahara Sanskrit School in Durbar Marg,Kathmandu provides us with a glaring example wherein, Brahman students used to receive /receive FREE education, state used to provide/provides them free housing and pocket monies also. The (Mahendra) Sanskrit University and affiliate campuses(in the beginning there were more teachers than the students ?!?) mandate that students must take English as compulsory course !?! Why would one ‘insert’ English in Sanskrit schools ? And also no one wants to go foreign land for employment. It is the result of unemployment that forces them out leaving their family behind.
And,nearly 2/3 population discussed in a post http://thehimalayanvoice.blogspot.com/ , is Nepal government data. It’s not someones imagination. The Public Service Commission (लोक सेवा आयोग ) data will tell all who reaches to Nepal’s national policy level and in which State Framework ? And there are some already out there, such as: Dor Bahadur Bist, Rhishikesh Shah, Prayag Raj Sharma, Govinda Neupane, Chaitanya Mishra and many other non IPs that all have written in their books/papers that there persists discrimination against those 2/3 population in the country. And quite contrarily, some Nepalese IP scholars write instead that there persists ‘undeclared Reservation’ for Bhramans and Chhetris in the country !
Religions and cultures can not be the bases for federalism. The Himalayan Voice is not in favour of ethnic federalism or right to self-determination in Nepal. But the status-quo which seems to be severely shaken today is also not acceptable to it. The country must reform within itself. A country like Nepal which is economically fragile, diverse and very small also cannot hold any type of ethnic federalism. The prevalent economic inequalities, low educational achievement and lack of employment opportunities in the country won’t allow federalism. The state must overhaul itself in favour of all wherein Sanskrit university type of black & white school certificates can’t determine a person’s qualification to serve the country. The country needs a ‘down-to-earth, smart-way-forward-system of Nepalese soil that would offer employment to all to reduce economic inequalities and stability in the country.
As concern Hinduism and Buddhism, they are not the same. The Buddha being born to a Hindu family doesn’t not mean his philosophy or in other words Buddhism is also Hinduism. Also there was an interesting debate going on for sometime last year in another group on Indus script. Asko Parpola and some Indian scholars declared they deciphered the script. All the major Indian media outlets carried the news all over the world. Do you know,what happened ? Another group came up and posted initially $ 10, 000.00 and later $ 100,000.00 reward online to those who really could decipher the script.
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