longest traffic jam ever !!!

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Classic Answer from a Student :

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Teacher : What came 1st Sun or
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Student: Madam ji Honey'moon'
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tabhi to 'Son' ayega na!!!

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Nationalist appeal in “ A Mother’s Dream ” by Gopal pd. Rimal

-          Krishna Prasad Bhusal

“A mother’s dream byGopal Prasad Rimal  is a dialogic poem that conveys the nationalist theme. The poem is all about an abstract character ‘he’, a futuristic man who will expected to come and rescue the society from being spoiled. The poem starts with the son’s question to his mother that whether he would come. Then throughout the poem the mother describes what he would be like and she tell her son that she has thought that the ‘he’ would be her son himself. The mother uses lots of figuration with simile and metaphors to glorify the outlook of the man to come. ‘He’ in the poem is compared with morning sun, the snow, the fire and the tempest. Use of these sort of metaphors show that he is not an ordinary man rather he is someone vigorous, powerful, energetic, and having zeal to fight for the nation and to lead the nation toward peace prosperity and development. The poem shows the contrasting worldview of older and younger generation.

In the poem there are two visible characters, the mother and the son. The mother represents the older generation and the son represents the younger generation.  ‘He’ is the invisible, abstract character but have influential power. He is the ideal character, that according to the mother her son should be. Thematically speaking, the mother’s dream is the dream of older generation that is yet to be fulfilled, and expected to be fulfilled by younger people. This poem is mostly written in mother’s point of view i.e. the instruction to the younger people given by older one. The significantly quotable line from the poem is

                “My youthful dreams constantly hoped ,

     That you shall be he.” (18-19)

This line suggests the dream and the hope of older people to the younger one. But the son’s question makes her disappointed because she is looking toward her son to fulfill her dream whereas the son is looking  not within himself but somewhere else to find ‘he’. This line is repeated at last, this signifies that the mother still hopes that the son will be he.  The pronoun ‘he’ is repeated several times, and he according to the mother will come like a morning sun with dangling sword.  He is taken as someone divine and symbolic character as if he has power to do anything.

                The mother’s dream is not the dream to be fulfilled by herself but to be fulfilled by her son, but even the son on the other hand is not going to fulfill the dream. This is the realistic and symbolic depiction of the contemporary Nepali society where the society needs the leader but each individual is looking for the other. The poet perhaps is signaling the contemporary Nepali political scenario where despite having millions of population the country lacks the leader. Older people can’t fulfill the dream and expect younger people to fulfill, but that is not what happens. Younger people too look for new youngs and this continues. The poem indirectly blames younger people for not fulfilling the dream of their parents and not addressing the country’s problem. But young people are indeed innocent, the country’s problem can not be addressed by young people only. We should not see dream to be fulfilled by others, nobody is ever going to fulfill your dream.  We should contribute the nation whatsoever our age is. 

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Rental Problem of Students in Kathmandu

                                                                             Krishna Prasad Bhusal                                                                                                

                        Thousands of students enter Kathmandu valley each year to complete their higher education and to acquire university degree. They have a dream of acquiring degree, dream of enhancing their career and having better future. But their journey of acquiring degree starts from, finding a rented room around their desired area. In first approach it is very hard to find a room, and if found it is more likely that the room is either dark, small, having scarcity of water or very expensive to afford. Since most of the students have financial pressure, they forcefully and deliberately choose room having very less facilities. The time they spend searching room, the room they rent and the rent they have to pay make them disappointed and compel them to think of things other than education. Renting room is indeed the first step and also the non-academic step of academic career, which most of the students have to undergo. There are lots of rental problems, finding room is one of the hardest jobs one has to encounter at first. Maintaining academic and friendly environment in and around the room is another challenge, paying expensive rents on regular installment is their next challenge. Inhumane treatment of house owner is also the burden to the students.

Since the geo-political situation of the country is centralized on Kathmandu valley, most of the academic institutions, colleges and universities are centered on Kathmandu. Because of this, population of students too is overflowed here, and it somehow caused the rental problem. But most importantly, this problem is caused by poor management system. Colleges and universities are becoming indifferent to students’ problem, so do student unions and even the government. This is the problem that affects so many things. When students’ mind is full of domestic rental problems how can they accelerate their studies? How can they do well in their education? This problem is responsible not only for hampering student’s potentiality but also for college drop outs. This is one of the problems, which is why students leave college and either return back home or go abroad. Few days back, I have taken a survey on around two dozen students of Tribhuvan University living in Kirtipur. I asked all of them that what actually is the problem they are currently facing. Some of them said they are searching best suitable rooms, some said they are going to transfer rooms, and some said they are running out of money in the verge of last of the month. Very few people replied that they have a problem that is not associated with rental problem. I concluded that whatever the problem is, in most of the cases it is about rent.

                        Not only students but 99% of tenants have been suffered or victimized from respective house lords in different aspects. Ninety nine percent land lords do not issue contract papers to individual tenants. So they wish to increase the fare and ask to vacant any time without prior notice. The lives of tenants are as gift or mercy of landlords. They do not bother to follow State’s existing rules and regulation regarding rent as they are feudal. They impose any thing any time to any tenants whatever they wish. They do not care whether tenants need conducive airy house/flat or room with adequate light, water, electricity, free from noise, dust, air, and water pollution. The house lords do not pay tax to government or concerned authorities. Even if they pay, they pay nominal manipulating to the concerned tax officials in respective offices. Land lords may ask money without any rationale like water supply, electricity, charges of using court yard, waste collectors, donation to beggars, various cultural groups like Deusi bhailo, Holi , Shivaratri etc.

Neither tenants are united or have union against the anarchism of land lords nor there is any rights protected of tenants by Law. But who cares? As if the concerned authorities are not aware. Whom to blame? Only house lords? Is it not a responsibility of the concerned Ministry especially of House and Physical Planning? Ministry of Local Development and its local bodies? offices and officials for not a proper access and good roads? Ministry of Water Resources for not adequate water and electricity supply? Policy makers and University graduate engineers for haphazard construction of houses day by day for inviting disaster? Of course politicians are at the center to be blamed since everything is guided by politicians ruling and or opposition. If you can buy justice from different departmental stores of Kathmandu or any place why do you hire an expensive lawyers? Why one reads in class? When one gets desired distinction without attending a single class or appearing in exam? Do not the concerned authority know the required quantity of water, electricity, vehicles, roads, cycles and footpath lane to meet the basic need of 4 million people of Kathmandu valley?

Hitherto I discussed on the problem, its causes and its effects, now it’s time to think of the resolution which is how the problem can be resolved. One of the best solutions I can propose is to enhance the capacity of the hostels of each and every college and to provide boarding facility to students within college premises. The state can play the creative role in doing so, it can subsidies the colleges which can offer boarding facility to all of its interested students. Rental problem is directly associated with students’ financial problem, and this too can be resolved simultaneously. If students are kept in hostels, in one hand they can do better in their educations and on the other it become cheaper one. Students can even be employed for some hours a week, which will ease the task to be done and will reduce the financial burden of university students. A number of recommendations can be made to the concerned authorities:

·        Implement strictly the existing legal provision by the state;

·        follow strictly the prevailing legal provisions on the discussed issue of rental problems;

·        enact immediately required legal framework legislation that deals hearing and disposal petition or the issues related to tenant and land lords through fast track system within twenty four hours;

·        provide full compensation to the victims (tenants) in mishandling or misbehaving so that none of other house lords dare to repeat inhumanity or unnecessarily troubles; National Planning Commission should immediately inspect and provide demolition authority to concern municipal or VDC officials which have not met the earthquake free standard;

if tenants are not getting the required basic facilities like water, electricity , transportation and pollution free environment like land lords then fix the number of houses and people can stay in Kathmandu as per the carrying capacity of the valley or the concerned places of Nepal then there should be the provisions to emigrate or rehabilitate such population; necessary instruction to different engineers association like Society for Nepalese Archaeologists, Nepal Engineering Association, FNCCI, Department of Population and various government agencies and non-governmental agencies can be helpful in this regards. In this proposal I have incorporated some of the problems regarding rental issues, discussed on some of the causes and some effects of it. I also proposed some of the solutions to be taken, that will help students  reducing problem of renting room and paying the rents.

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