Respect others rights first

"The promotion and exercise of tolerance, the ability to keep our hearts and minds open to the reasoning of others are the true litmus tests to gauge whether our commitment to the full and interdependent set of human rights and to human dignity is truly genuine and not just expedient rhetoric." Ms. Navanethem Pillay

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Magar language

Magars speak Pang (known as Kham) in Mid-Western region, Tarali or Kaike in Dolpa district of North-Western region, and Dhut mostly in the West and Central part of Nepal. These mother tongues belong to Tibeto-Burman family. The population of mother tongue speakers is 3.39% of the total population of Nepal (2001 census). Other remaining Magars speak Khas, and Nepali. Magar language stands at the seventh rank in Nepal in terms of the large number of population speaking their mother tongue. The Magar tongue speaking population in 1952/54, 1991, and 2001 were 273780, 430264, and 770116 respectively. The study of the trend in mother tongue retention shows that Magar language retention rate has increased from 32.1% of 1991 to 47.7% of 2001 census.

Population by mother tongue and sex

Total Number % Cumulative % Male Female
770116 3.39 86.51 372568 397548

Source: CBS, 2002

Constituent Assembly revival or fresh elections

 Personally  I am in favour of CA revival because it will save time, cost, it will prevent polarization of society, and it will definitely guarantee Constitution. Prashant Jha, in his article, also fears of some kind of uncertainty if new election is held. He writes:

Elections are more democratic and will accurately reflect the new balance of forces. But the outcome is almost certain to be fragmented. Will the next house, which will consists of parties who have fought elections purely on positions of federalism, be able to throw up a document of compromise? The interim constitution did not envisage that CA would not produce a constitution, but Nepal no longer has that luxury of not contemplating failure; how will it deal with a scenario where a social contract is not drawn again. And listening to the conservatives — those who mythologize the 90s and want to go back to that period — will not work. Radical democrats, republicans, federalists and secularists will wage a battle for survival to protect existing achievements.
 
On Oct 28, 2012, the retired judges of Supreme Court have suggested to go for fresh CA election rather than to opt for the revival of CA.


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Longer the political uncertainty; more the complication

Prashant Jha writes, "Political forces are still calculating who won and who lost with the dissolution of the CA without the constitution being delivered. On the surface, it appears that the Maoist-Madhesi coalition outsmarted the NC-UML combine by retaining the government while not giving up on the federal agenda." 
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Is it worth fighting for right to self determination today?

The report submitted by Janajati members of UML party also urges the party to ensure right to self-determination, autonomous governance and priority rights of the marginalised communities. The document has put the party leadership under confusion-whether to take action or to accept their demands-in near future. The party has been rejecting to accept ethnic federalism in the new constitution. My question is: Is it worth fighting for?
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Where will divisive politics take the country?

In future, divisive politics is going to be a major problem in our country. Those political parties that use caste and religion as tools to come to power would plunge the country into darkness. The responsible parties should shun such tactics of politicking.

Envisioning Nepal

Envisioning Nepal 2030
24 June 2010. I attended a seminar today. The topic of the seminar was 'Envisioning Nepal 2030'--a kind on day dreaming. Several presentations were made on education, transportation, agriculture, security, science and technology, women empowerment, industry, and environment. Hard questionscame up during the sessions: How we are going to manage the education of children living in rural areas? There are 70 lakh children in the school level, only 3 lakh of them can be accommodated in higher education. What is going to happen to other 67 lakh children? Is our education system capable of helping individuals stand up independently? Which classes of people are contributing more in the national economy (government says that the main source of national economy is said to be remittance) the highly educated or the labor force working abroad? Why are we not competitive in the global market? Why there is no business community and university collaboration? Are road infrastructures helping development or destroying tourism? How much expenditure on security apparatus is enough? What arethe alternatives? How we are going to cope with the global warming? etc.As for the security aspects I shared my thoughts that we need to socialize the security system not just reform security sector. For this, we need to start giving education on peace and security right from the primary level.
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