Priorities for National Celebration; International Mother Language Day.

Generally, ‘International Mother Language Day’ is not celebrated widely alike other days like valentine day, New Year, Christmas Day, Birthday, Anniversary Day, Baby Shower Day and so on. The other days like Democracy day, Mourning day, Independence day etc. are also not given the higher priorities. The paradigm of national celebrations are given less scopes and are shifted towards the modern entertainments and luxury. Thousands of our sons and daughters fought for the protection of the national identities. They knew that national security is the security for the future generations, i.e. the security for their sons and grandsons, which will keep them as well as their spouses safe and give them the nights of fearless. Keeping this in mind, they sacrificed their interests and fought for the national interests like in preservation of languages, cultures, religions and harmony.

Today, thousands of our sons and daughters are leaving country every day. They leave the country for reasons like for getting proper education, jobs and sometimes recognition too. The rural villages of our countries are becoming dessert day by day. Young boys and girls are departing from their villages leaving their old parents and grandparents. Nowadays, the rural villages lack to hear the voice of youths so, are more deprived day by day. We are scare that will our children be back to our home one day and listen our stories or not.

The knowledge related to national pride should be taught to our children from their childhood. This responsibilities goes directly to the parents and the teaches. Rather than other celebrations parents as well as the teachers of kindergarden or school should celebrate these days involving the kids in various activities like asking them to write poem or essays or drawings with paints, make play cards, storytelling, taking out to the celebration sites as an excursion etc. Similarly, should be carried-out in different forms in higher studies as well as in the Universities. They should be taught properly that the histories are very important and should not be overlooked. Either of the national celebration days has huge value in our personal as well as national identities.

International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21^st February throughout the world. It is celebrated in various ways as per the nationalities. We devote our love and respect to those who played the significant role in establishing and introducing their own language among the world. Today, more than 3000 languages are going to be distinct, it’s due to insufficient attention and the false politics towards the language. A small country like Nepal has more than 123 languages where all the languages are given the space and are recognized by the government.

 

In the context modern days, cross boarders business, travel, marriage etc. are being very common. One person of one corner of the globe is doing business with other person of another corner. It’s the language that brought them together irrespective to religion, culture and nationalities. So, let’s keep pride upon our language and respect other’s language too. 

Which Governance suits Nepal..?

- Prakash Regmi (22.08.2016)

Nepal is small but beautiful country both by nature and people. Moreover, it is more beautiful by the resources which Nepal has. It is located in South East Asia with border with China from north and India from East, West and South. Nepal was ruled by King/Monarch (Shah), Ranas and lately by general public via democratic model. Nepal faced lots of political reforms and finally by the Maoist movement (Civil war- around 12000 people died and few hundred thousand displaced) which was ended with peace settlement and in 2008, by passing a bill from cabinet Nepal was made a federal republic country by abolishing the monarchy.

Nepal was never colonized or ruled by any outer bodies, a bit of influences were always there from the neighboring counties as well as from the development partners. The competition for the power always exists within the internal political parties which results lots of economical as well as political hindrance. Weak diplomatic relation within the rulers also with cheap mentality of self interest have made the country poor and more dependent on others. Today Nepal is on 145^th rank in HDI (data of 2015). This shows Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world.

Now it’s a time to raise a question that,

Is the multiparty democracy a hindrance for its growth and development? Or Nepal’s model of governance system has lots of inefficiencies? Or why are politicians not under the law (Jurisdiction)? Or why the supreme court of the country fails to give brutal punishment to the leaders who have done numerous crimes and doing illegal business?

Let’s see how these developed Asian countries ruled?

Form of ruling	Countries	HDI (2015)
Ruled by only one party after independence	China	90
	Singapore	11
	Malaysia	62
From 1970 to mid of 1990s ruled by military	Taiwan	21
	Indonesia	110
	Thailand	93
	South Korea	17
Democracy from begining	Japan	20

Good governance is only one way to march the state or nation towards the development. Importing the best and succeeding policies from other developed counties like Sweden, United States, Denmark, Germany, France, China, Finland, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and many others may not work in our nation. Nepal is unique in itself with 123 languages and more than 84 ethnic groups. So, the religion, culture, lifestyle, geography, technology, education, health etc factors will be equally responsible for the succession or failure of the implementation of  imported policies or governance system/model.

Max Weber, Rousseau, Stuart Mill, Nicolo Machiavelli, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Karl Max are the political scientists who have focused in various approaches of governance models which fits in European as well as American countries of the world. Rather than arguing regarding the governance system and models or the form of government to be imported and implemented, Nepal rather should develop its own model which best fits its social, economical, political rights of general public as well as for the sustainable development of overall country. 

Poverty Alleviation through Tourism

 I, you and we make tourism. I guess everyone agree with this statement. Tourism is one of the strongest drivers of the world trade and prosperity. On the other side poverty is the result of unequal distribution of resources and opportunities. Today’s one of the world’s challenge is Poverty Alleviation. Despite turbulent times for the world’s economy, these basic facts are unlikely to change. Focusing the wealth creating power of tourism on people most in need remains gigantic task and opportunity.

Tourism is not related to any caste, religion, cultural or any racial group. It is all about the hospitality, services and beauty that one receives after experiencing it. The taste, color or a flavor of touristic understanding might differ from one part of world to other but the nature and in depth reality of hospitality behavior is almost the same to all.

“Guest are God, Guest are Always Right” are the statement that governs every tourism entrepreneur or service provider to the direction of respectful world. Either a tourist guide or an airlines ticket operator or a restaurant waiter or kitchen chef all are the part of a broader tourism horizon.

Today many countries have taken tourism as “engine for development” through creating tourist destinations and providing employment opportunities which sooner or later supports on earning the foreign exchange. And it is found that tourism contributes nearly 5% of world’s GDP and is also the fourth largest industry after fuels, chemicals and automobiles products. The wise part is it is responsible for one in every 12 jobs worldwide.

For least developing or developing counties, tourism can be the best option for the development of nation that is lifting up the life standard of people and carving a healthy and wealthy nation within the short period of time. But, it is not that easy as we read or say. All the tourism entrepreneurs, academics, policy makers, stake holders, local government and the local people all who share the tourism destination directly or indirectly should at least go through the following ways.

• All sorts of tourism should be concerned about poverty alleviation.
• Government should take poverty alleviation as a key aim of tourism, like as “Tourism for all”.
• The competitiveness and economic success of tourism business should be bench
  marked otherwise poor cannot be benefited.
• All tourism business should be concerned about its impact on the local community and should balance the poor with action.
• Tourism destination should be selected and managed with poverty alleviation as a central aim with strategies and action plans.
• Understanding tourism functions and its range of interest should always include the participation from the poor communities.
• Policies and license providing authorities should come with ranges of bench marking of standard, quality and cost inspections.

So, “Lets grow together” and “it’s our responsibility and duty to serve” sort of attitude should first come to all the tourism personals to make it happen. Sacrificing your little happiness and time to make other enjoy is the motto of tourism.

A Journey to a New Life

Everything is changing, you are changing in every second like all others. It is not philosophical, every sec the new cell or tissue is created or dead, hairs and nails becoming longer and heart pumping the blood. The blood passing to head through veins and creating lots of different feelings and emotions. So, everyone is changing. Nobody can stop it, because change is a phenomenon of everyone’s life.

Change on what, makes a significant differences. A baby boy grows young is normal process like a chick to a chicken, puppy to a dog. This physical growth is taken as minor issue and nobody cares about it even. The social changes is the one adopts has a significant role in one’s living.

A new beginning merely may not be a new, but is always considered as a new with lots of hopes, aim, and destinations. A new beginning always have love, will power, care support, moral, comfort, happiness, affection, help, share, team and society. It always starts with all positive signs and thoughts also the vibes.

I think a journey to a new life is only possible if you stay away from the regular society. The new beginning should be totally new with totally new people I mean with the people with new thoughts, new interest, with different expectations. New place, different people, different taste and lifestyle where you can change your thoughts and beliefs to the broader prospective with a wide horizon. So, that it become a remembrance and a memory to others but a new and a fruitful creation for you.

Friend and family are a part of life. You can make numerous friends in your life. But important is what sort of friends, good friends, lovely friends, common friends, best friends, boy/girl friend or usual friends and so on. As per the situation and necessary you keep on making friends and leaving them too. I say friends are conditional and also they should be conditional too. Whereas, family represents the parents and spouse which cannot be conditional. In some part of western society even they take family members also as a conditional.

A moral support, courage, wishes, hope and a sort of happiness is only expected from friends by everyone. If more than that is selfish behavior. And nobody lasts long with selfishness. You follow a business man and wants to be in his friends circle means that you have some hope that, he might be useful to you on any days in your life. Similarly, the same in college or university friends too. You don’t expect your friend do all your assignments or cook food for you each day. Your friendship with your peers/course mates is for a future prospect some days if in case necessary he/she might support you or your siblings, if not you may not meet him/her in your entire life. You can hardly remember your school or college friend and probably you may or may not be in contact in your rest of life so friendships are all conditional.

A journey to a new life for me means a journey to a new friendship. New friendship of lots of comfort, togetherness, love, sharing, feel and emotions except selfishness. Friends who can be fit in a frame so that will last ever.