July 4 and Nepali Flag

I like this one:

The picture was taken in New York (in 2007).

The big flag hanging by the tall support inspires people in a very subtle way. I am not sure how to describe it. Let me try to relate it to my country: In the process of constitution re-writing, there are issues of drawing different states in Nepal. Probably in a way that will benefit some of them/ their group.
I think, if we ever want to learn few things from USA, the first thing   to learn   would be :
to be united, and to be proud of being the people of the country.

People might say that displaying the flags do nothing. Well, we have not really tried it. If you see the flag in the international airport @ Kathmandu: it is small, might be already weathered and washed. People are coming to visit Nepal (by air), and that's where the boundary of Nepal begins. That's where we need to impress in the first sight.  Well, how about the boarder in the south/north?  There used to be a flag in the perimeter of supreme court: bigger but usually washed/torn out. The big-triangular flag can inspire people. Keep them hopeful of the bright future.

One can say there are a lot of issues that has to be addressed before replacing the old torn flags. Well, that's where we miss the point.

Iceland to rewrite constitution via social media

The 25-member council drafting the new constitution is reaching out to its citizens through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr.

 From:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/iceland-taps-facebook-to-rewrite-its-constitution/1600

Year Twenty Eleven: The year of DominoDemocracy ?

Blame it on social media or internet, the wave is there. The movement is quite different in the sense that the crowd is driving the energy. The leaders are trying to catch up onto the wave.
The wave is spread across the northern african-arab region.
What does this mean? If the domino ripple wipes out the establishments, a new beginning would prevail and no one exactly knows where it will lead the world into.

Detailed report from BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12482291

Oh, by the way, the countries  with less emission of CO2 are the one having trouble. See the CO2 emission map
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_responsibility_1950-2000.svg

Impact of President's Speech on Kids...

There has been talks for and against the President's talk to the school kids. For people like me, who used to be taken out to rally from school to shout politically motivated slogans for or against political leaders and the submerged in such propaganda, this is not a big deal. Not even debatable. The debates on whether president should talk to school kids were taken to interesting level by media.
However, the following video by Sarah is very impressive!



The Speech:


Want your kids be inspired? you should let them listen without any political bias.

Against the new Vice President of Nepal: Mr Parmanand Jha

The political scenario in Nepal is like a drama. There are a lot of things to be seen and to be reported. If anyone wants to practice journalism, one can go there. Even script writers can find a lot of nice scenes. The reports from Nepal shows interesting activities.
People are facing the difficulties in minimum daily activities while the whole political scenario points that is is not going to get better. At least not so soon!
Everyone smells a rat that this is a campaign against the "New Nepal" envisioned by Nepali people. The leaderless and sense-less mobs have started to take out any kind of movement and take the situation in hand. These political pseudo centers of powers are used for small and short term chaos.

We still need to boil down and settle, and it will not be easy in these cases like it was in previous case (2006).
Anyways, besides the fact that people have difficulties in getting oil for fuel and other basic needs (which should have been the primary focus); Nepal is now revolving in new cases: everyday.
The latest one started when the new Vice president Mr. Parmanand Jha took the oath in Hindi. Notably he started with a word in Nepali and got into hindi. There was provision that he could have taken oath in his native tongue which is maithili. Mind that hindi is not the official language of Nepal. Why did he do so? "Because it is spoken by 200000 people of Nepal".
Well, Nepali is spoken by 2500000+ people!
So, instead of speaking for less than 8% of the people of Nepal, it would have been better if he could have taken the oath in Nepali for 100%. Because he is not meant for 8%. That clearly means that he wanted trouble. At least he gets some name thrown out here and there. (This is not best way to get the names out in market).

Finally, there are movements.

If you want to sign petition against him:
http://www.sajhachautari.com/phpPETITION/index.php
and
http://www.petitiononline.com/nhc111/petition.html

This is how the balls keep rolling in Nepal.
Nepal: A different political dynamics than the rest of the world!

Monarchy Online: QueenRania on You tube

We have witnessed the recent fall down of the last Hindu king of the world from Nepal.
King Gyanendra will be named as the last king of the Shaha dynasty in Nepal. The geo-political situation of Nepal has emerged into a new situation which no one could have speculated before.
His only one comment was that he could not defend himself against all kind of "hate campaign" going around and was being spread around against him (as he said after being dismissed on his public adress as a Nepali citizen). He could not defend himself(?) ; was that the major reason for the whole empire to fall down?


Meanwhile, I stumbled across the news of another monarchy: Jordan's Queen Rania


She has come up with a great challenge in front of her: "break it down!!!"
It is more than "was against terror" because terrorists have no religion.
Look at this video: strong and amazing!!!
Her channel is located at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/QueenRania

From Brazil

Yes, this is my first ever entry to the southern hemisphere!!!
I am in Brazil for a week for a conference. I had written a little bit about my travel in Mirror, but could not arrange time to scratch here. Since the nature of the articles in these two blogs are entirely different.
Well, Brazil is (as I can see) same like Nepal. Except we do not have sea/ocean and beach. Oh some more things we donot have include but not limited are good roads/highways, cleanliness, plan for tourism, political stability and ..
OH MY GOD...
It now comes out as a different situation, we have not even dreamed of space... and they are on the space!
Hmm...
Brazil and Nepal are similar. Well at least in some aspects...
May be brazil was like Nepal back in 50's and some part of it may still have some relics. And, by chance, I saw some of them.
I am now convinced, after all, that Brazil is a lot different than Nepal. Why was I comparing these two countries???

Power Law in Nepali Politics?

Finally, Nepal is declared Republic.
I was browsing through the news and trying to extrapolate the future trends, By eyeball it looks like the famous power law is slightly followed in the vote trend.
The outliers in this graph seem to be the CPNUML. I think; the fact that they were also wearing the same kind of skin like Maoist and to check and balance them (as votes suggest), people have put them in the outliers. Otherwise, it looks like the CPNUML should have gotten vote around 1 million only!!!
Meanwhile let me see the coefficients...

CA Election in Nepal

Constituent Assembly Election for the first time in the history of Nepal.
People outside Kathmandu can not still believe that it is going to happen. The "trust" and mutual beliefs are way down.

Sometimes I think our generation is lucky (or doomed) that we have seen the most steepest part of transformation of the country.
Other parts of the world have passed this phase (may be) some hundred years ago.
I have seen Three kings, every kind of mass movements and up and down in Nepal. This window of time has engulfed everything which can be possibly put into formula. However, there are still many things yet to happen. We can not rule out any future possibilities and power play.

Will Nepali people be able to cast their future through this Election?


For some insights into Nepali politics, the following blog is also useful
http://nepalinetbook.blogspot.com/
(The writer may have some prejudice, towards some power center; eventually gives a big picture.)

There are news everywhere. Kantipur is also providing some :
http://www.kantipuronline.com/election/2064/

About Nepal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal


Some pictures taken by me in Kathmandu.

Back to USA

Only three posts in the month of Jan? How is that possible? My traffic dropped by 50% because of my irregularity, on whatever reason.
I tried to compose something to my blog from Hetauda, Makwanpur. Kathmandu was already bad. The blogger account would not open. So, I procrastinated. The power to procrastinate is what I have been learning in recent years. The only thing I can not/ would not be able to procrastinate would be my death. But that is long time to come. I have survived the month in my country. Actually I feel that I have been there to take a new life. Survival is not a problem in Nepal. People can just die for any reason. Accidental deaths are unlucky, if that is not caused by "politically influenced terrorism". It is just a matter of random sampling, and whether you are taken at random. At least 12 people were killed in Nepal in last one month. Peoples have forgotten to keep an account of "khudra" (-> not gross) deaths.

I am not frustrated with Nepal, I have a feeling that it will go through worse situation than present and then a day will come. A day will come when everything will be alright: better. I, still, am thinking whether my country needs a Hitler to hit the bed-rock.
What do my country Nepal need?
? A plan
? A visionary Leader
? Peace
? System
? Awareness
? Stability
? ??
Something has gone really bad, and no one is ready to think what is that.

Social Dynamics

In America, people keep moving ...  keep changing the habitats. Be it rent or whatever, they love moving. They change the job and keep changing it. Everything is dynamic. The pace of such movements generate some kind of momentum in life and some kind of compulsion that every one can not end up being dependent. The symbol of struggle at any age and the spirit of competition.
In Nepal. moving meant a lot of mental tortures. Many become psychologically attached to the surroundings. I thought that was because of the fact that we love everything we own, we use and or we see.
May be that can be identified with a kind of greed that we tend to think that the whole world belongs to us. Hmm, may be not a greed, but it is something that sounds peculiar and unfamiliar. When we become familiar, we just tend to cling on that. May be, in the other way, we love not to change. We just tend to freeze and want the simple and periodic continuation of whatever we have in our hand and or in our surroundings. In the context of Nepal it seems natural too because nobody knows the future and what one is going to get if s/he let the things go. I think the situation makes a big difference. No one want to loose and wants to be happy with whatever s/he has at the moment! Hence the social dynamics is not progressive. It is struck! It is jammed and had been there for long time. I mean relatively there for long time. Lacks a new movement!
In America,
everything is dynamic. The one who remains without sense of dynamics, s/he is left out!
So America keeps moving.

Political Dynamics

When we get more than two bodies; we, the Physicists, think that it is hard problem to treat.
What would we think of political situations of Nepal?
It is a real many body interaction. With every kind of interaction whose laws we don't know. There are Dirac's delta functions, nonlinear  effects and too many discontinuities in the situations.
The feelings of people are very abstract and they can not be easily depicted as we could in the case of Physics. The laws of Physics are very clear : at least there are no place for sentiments and queers of dogmas. In the real time picture of Nepal, the everyday life has been hampered by the politics. I am not in the position to blame everything to "bad" politics. If the politics is just driven by some kind of sentiments, its hard to predict its trajectories. The results become unpredictable with the large error bars. The worse case scenario is the fact that the killing and all sorts of criminal activities have gotten a new evolutionary identity: Politics!
I think Nepal is going to be a good case study example for students of politics around the world. And, I believe that in many years to come, its political situation will give many nail biting experiences to historians too.

God Bless Nepal !!!