Democracy is…

After a prolonged absence from the blogoshpere I have finally come across something sensible to blog about. A Facebook ‘contact’ had this video uploaded in his page and after watching it I thought I might as well contribute something by advertising it here . ( Ahem!) Not ‘Only’ because it is ‘from Nepal’ but because it is ‘Good’ stuff from Nepal. Well, this is Tsering Choden’s entry from KTM, Nepal for the Democracy Video Challenge. The list of the finalists is here. And if you go through the credits of the Video you’ll see a lot of names you’re familiar with ( If you are a Hits FM listener). Tsering Choden herself is an RJ at HITS FM. I still listen to her on “Namaste Kathmandu”( The breakfast show you can almost eat!) Yanik used to run a program called ‘The Peace Train’ ( I think a new RJ does the show now). Bipra runs Nepali and English shows alike. Srijan is the Audio guy with a real good voice ( I remember talking to him on the phone a long time back…when I was younger and used to call the station as an enthusiastic listener!).There was a time when Pravat used to run a lot of shows on Hits FM. I don’t hear him these days. But the video in question isn’t about who they are it is ‘what’ they have come out with.

If you are a Kathmanduite who is ’still’ in KTM as opposed to the millions who aren’t physically present here but spread out all over the ‘web world’ in ‘Nepali youths Do something’ kind of FBgroups ( Sorry, I loathe them!) and wake up every morning to read the news of ‘frequent’ strikes by ‘Okharpauwa’ landfill site people, never-ending ‘Points of Agreement’ between this group and that group including Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Okharpauwa Sangarsha Samiti ( or whatever),leave for work every morning past the stinking garbage, stopped midway on your way to work because ‘Congress/Ma-ley/ Ye-maley/ Maobadi/Yekikrit Maobadi’ ( choose one) is ‘Sangharsharat’ (protesting), forced to leave home two hours for your exams because the city is ‘tanabgrasta’ and yet get stranded in the middle of nowhere among ‘ Maobadis rallying for Nagarik Sarwochata (People’s Supremacy!) and have the term ‘indiscriminate firing’ come to your mind while making your path through the Red Sea, come home to ‘Load-shedding’ and still wake up every morning hoping for a better day then you like me will thoroughly enjoy the video.