Saturday, January 28, 2012

Ignorance of the law is no excuse!


I have a friend who rarely misses his dinner with his family-not because he is not supposed to-but because he doesn’t want to. He once advised me, “no matter what, come home for dinner because by then you are actually wrapping up your whole day. You will feel good for everything!”

I have a very good habit of helping my sister to clean the Dishes after Dinner (cDaD). During my ‘cDaD- see Dad’ time, I usually find myself in either of the two situations. If I am seen talking to the person next to me then that is probably the second situation I am in because most of the time I confirm myself to the state of utter silence with ‘there is a long to-do-list before bed’ syndrome.

Fortunately, today I was in the second situation. I was talking to my mother while I was helping my sister in Kitchen. We were sharing our updates on the DIG Koirala’s case; the most fascinating of all became the empire of his husband-wife relationship with nearly sixteen women (not sure if it is all true). The frame of ‘sixteen women by a single cop’ motivated me to write something on the ‘Impunity and Rule of Law’ but then another topic bumped into the original conversation.




Friday, January 27, 2012

WHY NEW CONSTITUTION?


A TV reporter asked a famous politician, ‘why new constitution?’, in reply the politician said, ‘new constitution for people, for democracy, for peace, justice, for establishing people’s governance, for development, and the list went on and on......’. By then I realized why it becomes so difficult to understand the politician’s speech. The simple answer is they just don’t want people to understand the reason behind their politics. May be I am wrong but what can I do because I just don’t understand. Isn’t it my right not to understand them and express my feeling for not understanding them? 

Photo: K P Kharel
Few days back, my friend shared me a story as his mom was sitting on the terrace with a newspaper on her hand, he happened to ask her, ‘why new constitution?’ She answered him in a soft voice, ‘for people...’ Then again he questioned, ‘what do people want?’ She said, ‘People want employment, security, development...’ Again the confused state of his mind argued her, ‘So that means state became failure in the past and thus by bringing new constitution it will come in its shape?!?’