#KathmanduDiaries - meSSed up daily liFe and a commoner's view on current scenario

It has been almost two weeks of the miserable life in Kathmandu. Everybody is angry, which is very obvious and normal feeling for the time being. Meanwhile, it has been almost two months of such misery in Terai. What would have been life there like!!

This ‘undeclared’ blockade of India to Nepal has been turning the lives of Nepalese messed up. The fuel scarcity is in its peak - results being seen daily on the streets of Kathmandu. The long traffic jams are no more and the road sees very less vehicles running. Instead, long queues of vehicles are seen at the oil pumps. The crowd in public vehicles is skyrocketed! It has been okay not to follow the traffic rules. Every public vehicle from buses to micro-buses is carrying passengers on hood, on ladder at the back of vehicle, on doors and windows too! The number of people walking all the way is growing each day.

There is no choice as is no fuel. The hotels are slowly being closed due to unavailability of cooking gas. The markets are seeing less movement than previous years considering the Dashain that is just around the corner. The prices of daily consumable goods have been increasing each passing day. Every little thing has been affected; the bigger one being the mentality of Nepalese people towards Indian government.
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While this is what Kathmandu is bearing, I wonder how people in Terai are living. The movements, strikes and curfews there have turned violent so many times that it must have been harder than the hardest to live. The markets closed, schools and colleges closed, everything brought to halt!

It is the painful fact that the common public people are the ones to suffer the impacts of every such movement. Yes, everyone has to go through the effect but it cannot be denied that the ones, who live under the basic line of poverty, have to suffer the most. With everything on the stop mode, they, who survive on the daily wage, are jobless - the one meal would be difficult to have.

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Indian government is sure to be blamed for their unethical interference in the internal matters of Nepal instead of the support towards the newly born constitution of Nepal. This blockade has just shown their true color indeed. Ask to each single Nepali people now and they will spit out the hatred towards Indian government. #BackOffIndia didn’t trend just so! Once again – we are against Indian government and their shameful acts towards the neighboring country, not against the Indian people!

The more disturbing is the fact that Nepalese government is also not doing anything effective - Nepalese government is slow, as always. It’s been time to make it an international issue already but the leaders are afraid (supposedly, they are)! Indian officials say it’s untrue in media but does the exact opposite thing on borders. Apparently, Mr. Narendra Modi has closed his lips with fevicol. Even the international media started covering the issue lately only.

This matter needs to be solved in a diplomatic way. We are a sovereign country and we don’t entertain any interference but we do need a friend and a good neighbor. (It’s time India needs to improve its relation with neighboring countries.) We are very similar to India in culture and lifestyle. Talking about language, while almost every Nepali citizen understands Hindi, how many of us understand Chinese? The smallest things like toothbrush and so comes from India! So, we really need to be dependent on ourselves for the most of the things that we can produce in our country while maintaining the good relation with India and Indian people.

Good relation is fruitful for everybody whereas hatred just increases hatred.

Our leaders need to deal with the movements in Terai in the most effective way now because this turmoil must not last any longer now and to show the world that we can deal our affairs by ourselves. The Madhesi leaders need to come to the table instead of doing those protests on streets. United together, leaders and government need to stand for the nation as a whole instead of lobbying for who gets the seat in next government! We need to build the nation and its independency.

It has been the worst year for Nepal. Whilst the country has been slowly recovering from the devastating earthquake, this blockade and protests have pushed the country backwards only!

I hope the bad times will end soon.

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