MisS nEpal : iSSueS wItH rEpReSeNtAtIoN..

The word 'Peasant' and 'Pageant' are kind of homographs(very close to heteronym ,however couldn't hit the exact one). Yes, like a typical heteronym they hold this gigantic difference in their meanings .

A PEASANT GIRL

A 'Peasant girl' runs all the way to the school, bare footed most of the times and attend the leftover classes. For her pace couldn't meet the teachers pace of taking classes. She gets tired of running all her life and her parents tired of the hunting for a sturdy worker at the field finally hires their daughter. To no one's exclaim she is a dropout. She cant be a doctor or an engineer or a nurse or whatever ,had there been any dreams as such. She is destined to work all day long at the field, absorb the scorching sun , get married to a guy (her status or even lower ) she never heard of before and bear some children for him at a very young age. She is no pretty anymore. Had she not quit school and ran miles barefooted and continued her education she would only have lost the beauty of her limbs. That she would be just a pedicure away. But her infantile legs hurt so much at sleep that she decided to quit running . And now she is a full time worker at the field , her daughter quit running too. Which means the whole family can grow more vegetables and supply to the educated town. And after all these years, she is dumbfounded to discover how a town girl of her age makes a front page news. “Malina Joshi crowned Miss Nepal 2011”
                            

Malina Joshi Miss Nepal 2011

                           

And to add to this irony of our nation, a 'Beauty Pageant Girl' holds a whale of a discrepancy in her story. They are not tough athlete. They were either shouldered , toted or they had a luxury motor ride to the school. They were fetched back by the same means. Some of them had been cared so much that to put on an UV protection as soon as they advance out ot the auto's entrance was must. They had been kissed on their foreheads or cheeks , they have been fed fitting meals. Its absolutely not an awful thing to do. Its good to love and get loved. Its good for a country with high number of female dropouts too, next year they get to show lower dropouts statistics and feel proud.

This is about opportunities, that no one is to blame. But one thing is for sure, this whole drama of sophisticated schooling represents fewer elite.

Sarina maskey(2nd runner up to this beauty contest 'miss nepal 2011' frm my locality who is a friend to my sister as well) said in one of her interviews (sounds she has got quite a fame now!!): “beauty contest is a platform to show one's talent”. However Collins English dictionary refers to a beauty contest as 'a competition in which the participants usually women are judged on their attractiveness with a prize and often a title awarded to the winner' and its informal meaning to which every regular person stands by dictates 'any contest decided on the basis of superficial attractiveness, popularity, etc ' . Except, my vision working just fine, I don't see any talent word cited.

They say things like skill development , women empowerment and craps but the reality is its a mere beauty contest and trying to delude people that they are crowing the best brain and best face of Nation. However they fail to do both at times. Comn !! Sugarika KC crowned miss Nepal; neither she had this sensational face nor an exceptional brain. This will be too hasty of me talking about this new Miss Nepal . But its just a show off with limited intelligence, a hoon in short.

Sugarika KC

                              

They talk big, Miss Nepal are serving countries in their own way. Which way is that??? I frankly don't expect them to change things going wrong in this country for which they are not to blame. Nor I blame them for any of the erroneous situation. They are appointed good will ambassador to some INGOs or they are giving hand to 'go green' movement or visit some orphanage. Thats their thing ; rallies , workshops, youth campaign , promoting visit Nepal, blah blah.... Call me a depressing soul, I cant credit them for this pity act.

I have seen mighty women journalist, social activist, walking all their way to the remotest places in Nepal and fetching stories of people never heard before risking their life. The stories of people with bleakest hopes. The stories of 12 yrs of civil war and its traces, the stories of how women are affronted in the places where a government could never finger itself.

I don't want to sound a moron here, talking about the clothes they wear or body parts they expose that I never care. That will just be any female Maoist leader's brawling. Their protest is about how the women are exposed that I think is a completely foolish issue they raise.

However the point I bicker is the platform they enjoy. The fancy idea of people calling this a beauty cum talent hunt. Modeling can be a profession, since few town girls are interested getting into it,so be it. Call it “Nepal's Top Model”. It is acceptable. But how few percent of elites participating this event can call themselves Miss Nepal contender and dare to represent the rest of Nepal where more than 80% of the total population is farmer. And more than 90% of the population lives in rural areas. And 90% of female population is farmer. Where the literacy rate is just 25% for females and huge female dropouts in the rural parts. Where each day women confront poverty , violence , racism and sexism to which this participants are not even aware of.

How can the girs nourished to use forks or walk or wear clothes be representing the face of all the Nepalese women who lost their enchanting look to the scorching sun. How can the girls coached to talk be the wisest of all and represent the rest of the intellectual women bestowing their lives for media freedom, democracy or fighting day to day violence. Since you can't drag all the women to the stage and make a fair representation, which is obvious;you won't and I don't want you to. How about you change the name of the contest and stop bullying about your girls representing nation. Or you try to realize your participation sucks. Or you try to make your participation a little country friendly and after you crown them you help them with the modeling stuffs.

Ps: just personal thoughts..i am running no campaign against it...

iT's rIGhT ; nOT cRImE

                                           

“Hya chodhde garmi vaisakyo; 5 tk ta ho ni”, my brother miffed at me while I was trying hard to set it 115 and not give up at 120. I couldn't resist my brother. Yes, it was more important to rush back to hotel room with AC on than to bargain over this 5tk on this freakish summer day in Bangladesh. That’s close to 5 rupee Nepali. Its not that I don't feel any heat; I just can’t let go money that easy. I remember my father saying ' every penny you save bargaining is the money you actually earn to yourself'. Finally, the merchant won this silly 5tk fight. But he ain't getting any AC.

People have this two contrary approach of looking at this 5 tk tussle between me and this heat absorbent merchant. Yes, of course! Everything starts from -ve pole. Even electricity flows from -ve to +ve pole. Since we are a bunch of hypocrites, we want to mask things positive and think negative. Thats the reason may be we follow this conventional flow of electricity from +ve to -ve(9^th grade science book). But regarding my combat with this merchant; its really easy to sideways with me being piggish and fighting for no good amount of money, in short greedy.

Nonetheless ; some very few people might think that I have a leg to stand on. That I wasn't being greedy or bargain [ from old french bargaigne, from bargaignier to trade of germanic origin ] holds absolutely different meaning than greed [ German gratac]. That explains bargaining is not a shameful act or its meaning is nowhere close to being greedy. Its one boring job; looking for meanings in dictionary. I have mentioned the source of these two words that should buy you some time and help you not make a monkey out of you.

Sometimes the shop owners are way too prudent or let’s call cunning. What they do is they recruit this pretty sales girls. Guys just can’t resist to their pretty smile and can't dodge this trick being played on them. Poor lads! And with girls its even effortless. It’s like whipping off a candy from a baby's grip. And  the sales boys doesn't even have to look handsome. A lot of girls are living their life under a lemon impression that bargaining is inversely proportional to their beauty and get up or class. “OMG ; her na tyo kt, I mean kasto k, like huncha ni 'dai plz k plz k re' beggar type k”. Its not an assumption its a posteriori.

What about me?? I am a very day to day regular sort of guy and not very out of league type of guy.  So I fall for the same thing, girl's smile. Like they say “ hasi to fasi”, actually its vice versa at stores while shopping and turns out something like “hasungi tab to fasega”. But I avoid buying anything form the shops with pretty sales girls. Yes you can call me a hypocrite. Who ain't?? I call that me being feminist, softy with girls  and harsh with guys. Just kidding!!

And last time; I went to this vegetable market. Never before I realized the price of tomato hitting as high as 80 tk per kg. I mean what's wrong with the people in Spain; 'the tomatino festival' in the Valencian town of Bunol. Where do tomatoes grow?? on trees??

And I figured it out myself ! The inflation rate in Spain is just about 3.1 percent in July 2011. The historical high of 5.3 and record low of -1.40. That explains the tomatoes being real and yes they can buy. However inflation rate hits 10.2 percent at the same time of the year in Bangladesh. And that explains just why I had to bargain for 10 minutes and lower the price to 70 tk per kg and buy half a kg.

I have recently developed this new bonding between me and tomatoes. Not because one of the movies I really enjoyed watching 'zindagi namilgei doobara' had frame full of tomatoes in it. But I have started cooking myself. Finally after all these years of my brothers and sisters and friends getting wear off saying me the same thing over and again ' learn yourself to cook'. Like they say 'better late than never'.

And Nepal experiencing this inflation just as high as 14.5 percent. They say it has dropped down to 8.sth these days. But who believes this bullshit looking at the menu they hand you at the market. I can just make an assumption how pathetic lives are in polluted Kathmandu valley. Its been 3 years already I haven't bought a thing from this blood sucking place. Sometimes when you have to go to meet some relatives in hospital and you go look out for this Anar(pomegranate;contains high amount of iron). They tell you the price of a handful of grenades. They don't only spell alike they also look alike. Thats the shopkeeper saying figuratively 'yes welcome to the hell ,not dead yet?? buy this .'

Its Teej hitting the market already. I don't know why I hate women putting on such heavy gold ornaments. May be its my mother who never bothered buying any designer jewelry for she never believed gold can really enhance a woman's beauty left a massive impression on me. Or ! May be we  are too poor to buy my mother any ornaments. But all my aunts wear sophisticated ornaments. And anyways! What it is with girls and golds?? you know gold price per tola(11.66gm) has just embarked a record price of 53 thousand 4 hundred rupee on Tuesday(23.08.11) and still women are crazy about gold. And I read this today, while the price was just 50 rs per tola in 2003 BS ,gold was still fantasy to the middle class Nepalese and today its even worse , they cant even fantasize. How crazy is that?????

And Dashin is approaching very nigh too. You can only dream of goods. I mean starting with the price of a new piece of cloth to the live goats they sell. They will , with no frantic look in their face say prices as high as branded Armani suits and live horses.

For those of us, who travel in all black SUV s or Corolla or Prado or Hartford (horse height )VR bikes. This might just look as pessimistic of me as any student showing his student id card to get few bucks discount. There is more to it, the micro khalasi suspects his id to be fake and the student in desperation to prove his card real calls the college authority to rest assure that disrespectful khalasi. This elates an unschooled smile on every passengers for he was getting to extreme measures to fight his right.And they were getting this whole idea of this guy arguing 'being insane for few bucks'.

However , for rest of Nepal; you want to learn what an inflation is?? here is one standard definition “Inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services over a period of time for which each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services”. But this will be no different than me saying ' USA is a very developed country, tall buildings , central park, Hollywood , las Vegas, beautiful girls, lot of beers' until one finally discovers for oneself, its no fun listening. So if you really want to know what an inflation is, you do the whole shopping for your family this Dashin. That way your mother gets to rest too. Oh!! don't forget to bargain “it’s your right not crime”.

tHaT's WheR wE LiVe...

‘Writing is nothing but mere indulgence of one’s mind that might even change the whole trajectory of one’s life.’ I do not really know what these words mean exactly. However, I made those up myself. Sounded way out of elegance I could ever meet myself one day. Nevertheless, I am here writing this on my own.

I am feeling so offbeat and unwieldy fresh at 5 am in the morning, Not that I went to bed early at night and hooped this early morning. I am a far cry from acting that weird. Because it has been so many years, I’ve been longing to practice this sleeping early and getting up early kind of thing. In addition, it just seems as impossible as of dreaming umm...running for American president. Not that I really dream about but couldn’t come up with anything more impossible.

I do not know what is keeping me so fresh. However; I might be hovering over this two unusual quirk, I have developed recently. Late night imbibe of caffeine like the one they show in the advertisements. ‘Hi I am Karan Johar’ says that abnormal , successful film maker and this one guy says to Deepika Padukone another victim of abnormality(if love ajkal wasn’t so fun watching I could never stand this abnormally tall badminton player turned superstar) ‘who ,uncle??’Yes, of course in this one ad promoting Nescafe. Ads are fun watching. However, hate these shampoos, toothpastes and beauty fairness creams ads. I ve been using this Garnier Fructis hair fall control they say. But it is only germinating more dandruffs and truning me into Zinedine Zidane very soon. And its even worse coz I can’t even take the vigilant eyes off my bald head for I am worse at football skills.

Tranquility of watching late night-early morning movie shows and getting obsessed over it might be another argument for my bewildered sleep. ‘The kite runner’ movie based on the book titled the same by Khaled hosseini is the reason I am still lost in atypical thoughts. May be that’s the reason I am trying to act like a real writer, which I am not clearly. A writer doesn’t talk about toothpaste, ads at early dawn, and feeds the same crap to his blog readers.

May be sometimes it’s a good thing, to act. It gives you the chance to feel like the characters you are acting of and partly elates rejoice. It might even inspire you to continue the same act over and again that might eventually turn you into a character you are acting. Might even be a new lease on your life, who knows. But I can conclude, its one big tough job, acting. Last time I tried to act, It was this sick character ‘Raj Babu’ from a Xerox of one Korean movie ‘mero auta sathi cha’. And this sick dialogue ‘Dr. ma Shika lai ghar laijana chahanchu........’. I really do not see a point of wasting  budget for that ‘a dime a dozen’ movie. Nonetheless, acting is real tough. Now I am acting like a writer, which also has been tough and more like a drop in the bucket.

The movie ‘ The kite runner’ embraced all the emotions. A loyal friend, betrayal out of jealousy, soviet invasion (not an emotion, but an episode of traumatized banishment from one’ country Afghanistan). An enduring pain of betrayal and the same guilt dragging him all the way back from USA to Taliban invaded afghan to bring back his nephew under Taliban’s duress.

Movies they tell about lives, they touch heart and actors they work hard (they really do in Hollywood). But it seems like impossible for our superstars in Nepali film industry to realize this fact. Most of us reading this haven’t watched a single or very few Nepali movies for that I am not proud at all. But they are abnormal. We get this huge laughter when they soak in tears and they get on our nerves while they try hard making us laugh. Movies are really ally to nation’s pride. If you produce good movies, your culture dominates the rest. You know how Korean fans are emerging out of cavity in every parts of our country?? I would call a disaster though. Fierce looking Mongolian people turned into she-male. Last time I met this girl who said, she looked like a Korean a few years back and now she has gone a little black morphosis  plus a little busy with her life and she regrets losing her Korean look. I mean Korean look has abruptly changed the beauty parameters. Its not a look it’s a beauty scale these days. I contradict with this new beauty scale they have recently introduced. But my point is they could do this in our country just because they could hit the nerve of our apathetic youngsters (who is buys doing nothing) through their movies and dramas. I can’t imagine anyone trying to emulate Rekha Thapa’s vulgar dress sense anywhere in the world. Its worst tolerating these actors and the movies produced than no actors and no movies at all. I do not see, they even trying to come up with a good one. I do not watch you people not because I don’t want to but I can’t, you guys are so wrong about acting. You people so much suck.

I guess our leaders are good at acting than our actors.. Last time I read this news, they table talk group of thugs masked politicians. The reporters await with a hope to be the 1^st correspondent to seize this news of political consensus. And to their surprise, abandoning all the national issues they meet this consensus; what would be the dialogues of each thugs, what will they be bull shitting about the meeting. Something like ‘ Ya we are positive, we are very close’. Don’t believe me they rehearse the dialogues? You might wanna check nagariknews.com. Retards, they do it so fine that the newspapers award them with the front-page publicity with their close up pictures. That is where we live. The place where an actor can’t act and a politician can’t draw up good policies but act. A place where people don’t know what ‘mind your own fucking business’ means.