I had the opportunity to attend a musical evening on 13 Aug 2005. The Indian Embassy had organized this program on the occasion of 59th Independence Day of India. Pundit Mukesh Sharma and Anupriya were the two guest artists. Mukesh played Sarod while Anupriya played Violine. In the second half of the evening, four Nepali artists also joined them with Sitar, Tabla, Bansuri and Sarangi. All of them played quite harmoniously. It looked like they were practicing together for many years. Then suddenly the reflection of the present political, socio-economic situation of our country came to my mind. I wonder why not we can just work in unison for the peace and prosperity of the country like these artists. I am very sorry to admit the fact that all of us have failed in our duties. The political forces, the security forces, the actors of criminal justice administration, the bureaucrats, the economists, the educationists, the medias, the civil society, and the rebels- all have failed miserably. Unfortunately we are still heading for terrible catastrophe.
Considering the current situation in Nepal no one should say, “Politics is not my business and I am least interested in it.” If good people do not join in politics then it would mean we agree to be tortured, bullied, swayed away, governed, and doomed by the egocentric acts of bad politicians. We should not forget that all of us are traveling in the same boat. We can not live in isolation; we are the part of the fateful jaunt. We should punish any one trying to burrow the hole in the boat and get it quickly refurbished. We can not hang around to see others drowning because we might be the first one to go down. When the boat is capsized into the abyss, it will be too late to apprehension. The immediate need is to pull ourselves out of the storm. For that, coalition, not collision, is the need of the hour.
