Want to know the situation.

First the award that has been moving around. Starry awarded me "Honest blogger", Thankyou Thankyou. Well, as per the rule, i will award seven bloggers for their honesty and frequent interesting post.

These are the rules:
1. The winner can put the logo on their blog
2. Link the person you received your award from
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Put links of those blogs on yours.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you’ve nominated.

Though i havent been following blogville much these days (owing to my laziness, lack of time or whatever...), these are a few blogs that i have always found honest, interesting and arresting.

1. Seriously frivolous (seems like this blog has been stopped for quite sometime now)
2. Yashita (whatever is written, good or bad, its true)
3. Neers (i think she is beyond comparision)
4. Keshi (a blog which would be honest to core... whatever is in the heart, is in the blog)
5. Ekta (interesting ups and downs, honest and with sense of humour)
6. Scribblez (quite infrequent, honesty which makes one really "think")
7. Amrith (a very interesting blog. so honest that it reveals dark side which many of us hide)

For those who i havent mentioned here doesnot mean that you are not interesting or honest... hehe... You are all "Great"

Well, getting back to the post, Cuckoo asked me to give my views on the breakdown of Koshi river Dam, which swept away many villages and lives in Nepal and also in India. Before i write, please bear in mind that i am not here to bash any indian sentiment or nepalese. I am not here to blame any nation, because i dont think that any country is bad as a whole (there can be a few blemishes though). Since most of the blogs i visit (almost all of them) are indians, so my sincere apology if i seem to be insulting your sentiments.

First, let us begin with what happened and how did it start.

The problem with Koshi was that the indian supervisors have requested the indian government to renovate the Dam as it was getting weaker each day, no result and as everyone knows, Nepalese government is still in the power snatching business and the politicians have absolutely no time to address the social problems (nothing new?).

Koshi Dam was built by the Indian aid about 55 years ago (approx), with indian finance, indian construction workers and rest of manpower.

Well, looking at the past, this Dam was constructed in such a way that almost every year, Nepal used to be flooded during monsoon and India could use the river water for irrigation (some political selfishness years ago maybe?). It was considered by many Nepalese that Indian government, 55 years ago, while providing the aid of building the Dam was shrewd enough to make sure that whatever difficulties it caused would be suffered by nepalese and whatever benefit would be shared by India. But the nepalese government never questioned this years old policy (maybe if they had confornted the Indian government, the present govt of india would have considered and addressed the problem in nepal).

The same goes with the Mahakali river as well... This river situated in the western nepal acts as the border between Nepal and India. Now after some years, this river belongs to India (it is said that the PM of nepal once sold it to india... well, no one really knows the truth). The Dam in Mahakali is also constructed in such a way that Nepal suffers flood each year and India uses the river for irrigation.

Nepalese believe that Matrika Prasad Koirala (who surrendered the Koshi dam to India without much thought) and Girija Prasad Koirala (who sold the Mahakali to India) have played dirty politics with the nepalese mass and earned their profit (getting favors from India or filling their pockets, whatever).

Now the point is, why is it that Nepalese dont really confront Indian government...?

Reason: More than 60 percent of construction in Nepal has been made by the aid of Indian government, be it highway, other roads, bridges, dams, some schools, few hospitals etc. Now a country like India, which has helped Nepal time and again (helping the Maoists by giving them shelter, or helping the nepalese students by providing scholarships, helping Nepal by giving many financial aids for development etc.) The list is too long to finish...

Can a government of a country like Nepal confront on small things with the government of a country like India (on whom we literally survive for everything). It is okay if India takes a few advantages after giving so much of aid. No wonder nepalese have been quiet about the Indian and Chinease encroachment. When i was a kid, i studied that nepal has an area of 147181 sq km. but now it is less than 142000 sq km. Where did all that land go? The chinease put their soldiers in Nepalese soil saying that they need to protect themselves from indians and indians put up their army camps in nepalese soil saying they need security from chinease.

The nepal mass and government is like a person hanging on a rope because they are afraid to jump on water and swim. Of course, this rope will give blisters and pain at times, either we should be able to stop grumbling or take a decision to jump down.

Now, for all the Indian bloggers who have felt insulted by whatever i have written, let me explain something. I am not saying a particular country is good or bad. I am also not saying that India has taken advantage of nepalese penury. Absolutely not. Remember when India was ruled by the british, during that time, nepal was also ruled by the Rana Regime (this rule was thrown away by the nepalese in Janaandolan 1 and people established democracy in Nepal) and many Nepalese PMs during that time helped the British regime by providing nepalese soldiers to fight against Indians. Now, not that Nepalese hate indians or Indians hate nepalese... everything that happens seemed correct at that moment and people take actions for their benefit, for what they think is right, or because of their ignorance.

Well, many of the Nepalese think that this disaster was bound to happen as a law of nature. Nevertheless, the Indian government has made a deal with nepal about constructing a high-dam, which will surely make change in the situation and benefit both countries equally.