As for the rest that followed I don’t agree with you. Since when did the size of the country became the deciding factor behind our national identification?
If we compare ourselves to the countries like Singapore or Malaysia ..they are way wayy too smaller than ours. They don’t take the size of the country as an excuse to feel sorry for for themselves. So what – we stand between two the giants!!! (Apart from political reasons) why at all should it make any difference in a more personal level to us???
You see Bibek I don’t call that being ’sensitive’- I call that being intimidated or may be eveb stupid. Even you would agree with me that at times we get soo overdramatic about our own identity thing- that we even tend to forget the real us. And one example is the whole Prashant Tamang fad. okay I agree- it was his Nepali heritage that people were drawn to. But if you so proudly talk about our sensitivity towards our nation and our identity as the citizens of this country. WHy the hell the thousands of dollars were poured in from outside the Nepal just to get this guy win some damn show.

I mean come on – some crapy Indian show was making money because of us!- If you are someone who gets sooo agitated about something whatever that Rhitik Rosan said and will make a big deal about it and take it to the steets why not this one too! When you don’t even seem to know who you are or even have a slightest clue about your own root. Where does this identity fall into place?? – I don’t know!..and thats exactly what outsiders take advantage of.

I am absolutely appalled that majority of Nepalese simply cannot seem to ‘think’. If Nepalese were truly sensitive about their turest identification. Events such as Prashant Tamang or Rhitik Rosan scandal, would have had never happened. Its sad that Nepalese still go about screaming out loud from the top of the roof that Gautam Buddha was born in Nepal but not in India. ANd why they still do it- cause they simply don’t have anything else to be proud of. You see, because we are one lazy asses sitting on our butt constantly complaining and doing absolutely nothing not even for the love of the nation. Because if we already have the world’s tallest peak residing right here in our motherland- why the hell do we at all need anything else to reprove our state in this modern world??

SO Bibek please – lets not blame Indian or China here its us that we need to peek into cause thats where the answers lie.

Yes, I have no disagreements on your opinion on Mount Everest and all that. History and culture are good to look back and smile, but we can’t live there. Having said that, development is no pretext to deliberately undermine your cultural and historical identity. Being a small country between two powerful nations, Nepalese are very sensitive about their identity and their identity has in a way helped them survive as an independent nation so far. If you take away identity from a country, you basically kill its very essence. We should be cautious about orchestrated efforts towards that direction.

Cheers !

ANd people making a fuss about politicians sporting Tuxedos or whatever – completely baffles me. are you seriously going to judge someone by the way he or she dresses up. I am more worried about the national development than superficial national symbols or national dresses or national animals…I have a pretty good sense of who I am and where I belong. hence I certainly don’t need some random materials the nation pick just in the name of nationalism. To hell with mt Everest or whatever else we’ve known for. I want my country to be known as a nation who can equally compete with other nationals in this global world. I don’t want my country to be known any more as a begging bowl. Instead I want it to prosper on its own. Still having said that- regardless of where my country stands – damn I am proud of it and will always be. simply because of the fact that I was born here- not because they selected daura suruwal as their men’s national attire, or they worship Cow as the Goddess. Or even if its a place of Gautam Buddha.

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