Sept 18, it wasn’t a 'Friday' on the Gregorian calendar and Nepal was inebriated somewhere on the events that were to make headlines the following day. CPN-UML president was grumbling over the Maoist’s irksome allegation: "The two biggest oppositions are not willing to haul the stalled peace process to some logical end." It's only our leaders; whose generosity still eyes at the logic anymore for rest of Nepal it's only a tool to mount political gain. But our PM Dr. Bhattarai must have been busy packing his stuffs and memorizing antique words of Marx for he was to catch the flight to the US at midnight the same date. However Jhallu was hopeful to seize the newspaper's headlines the following day.
And it was just the day to the most glamorous fashion event's conclusion: 'Fashion Parade'. The colorful and stylish lives were working out on the hangover from the other night's 'After Party'. While a woman was reported dead of an illegal abortion at a hospital in Itahari, eastern Nepal the same date, Sept 18, it is!
The episode of 'Dead Rhinos' continues yet again to menace the officials. The second to be reported dead in past few weeks, leaving behind 503 numbers of its species at the Chitwan National Park. A jeep accident in Myagdi hits death toll to 11 a few weeks before the biggest festival to knock at every household. 'A catastrophe inevitable' they say but who cares about the narrow hilly tracks. It’s inevitable only for our road authorities aids to its certainty.
These above incidents would make pretty colorful newspapers the following day but Kathmandu and all other places back home were hit by 6.8 on Richter scale temblor. The chaos unfolded, people were scattered, and CA members evacuated the hall. Ktm was witnessing a rock and roll for over two minutes with involuntary head bangs. The "impotent" British embassy's wall also supposed to be an important structure snatched away few lives including a father and a daughter. Few other lives at Eastern part of the country were not spared either. A lot of injured lives are at stake and scores more hidden behind the hills hola. Our state by now, must have befriended this idea that Kathmandu is in jeopardy.
The highly dense, with an over population of over a million, the heart of the country embraced by Himalayas, the only place beholding ; sophisticated apartments, luxurious hotels, high rise malls, KFC, Pizza Hut, King's way, hundreds and thousands of educational institutions, corporate houses, party and fashion loving young generations, the insane dream of a regular guy to get settled once in for all just to change his permanent address to Kathmandu, the city lost into the absolute madness of god knows what , was finally brought into senses after a long time.
This is an alarm with no snooze button. It’s a wakeup call. Let’s disclose this long forgotten issue of actual decentralization and put it up on the "things to do" list the very first thing. Authorities might be pondering on blaming the British Embassy for the loss and expecting a couple of mass agitations. May be corrupted British Embassy's personals are to be blamed for the 'impotent wall' and our authority could get easily away with this accusation. But i am talking here about the graveness of the situation. A tweet by @lemboo read 'it is 6.8 and we pull funny one liner and anecdotes. If it is 8.6 we would be RIP-ing over the departed souls and cursing over the devastation.' So next time the temblor hits the country there will be no one to blame for detriments. I hope 'JHALLU' did not make another headline the following day.
P.S: a sincere heartfelt condolence to the bereaved family. RIP all the departed souls.
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