Short View of Nepal

A lot of people think that Nepal is same as India and that Buddha was born in India - he got his enlightenment in India but born he was in Nepal in a town called Lumbini.

We may have a lot of things common with India, we share the same Devanagari script but we are different in many ways. First of all we are a sovereign nation. A sovereign land locked country between the giants India and China.

India has more or less played a big hand in the development of Nepal. Its politics, its economy and its entertainment. Lot of business are also owned by Indian origin, with the porous border there is an influx of people from both side moving freely. India has controlled all aspect of our political and economical decisions. Nepal needs New Delhi’s blessings for anything major to change or happen in Nepal.

Nepal new Constitution was promulgated September 2015. The constitution is a progressive one except the fact regarding citizenship issues for child born to single women there is no citizenship path. This has made many angry and yet women on the whole cannot do anything yet. But we have our first woman President.

Nepal has been undergoing a lot of hardship from the major earthquake in April 2015 to the prolonged almost 3 months of border blockade by the Madhesi party. It is believed that the border blockade was unofficially supported by the Modi Government to teach Nepali a lesson because Nepali leaders then did not take the blessing of the Indian government when it promulgated the constitution.

Many feel Nepal as a nation is going backward. Its young people are leaving the country for better jobs education and a better life. Every house in Nepal has at least one member working, studying outside. Some come back but most do not especially the ones that go to USA, UK and or Australia. There are many that are in Middle East doing low skilled labor under hard condition and contribute to the Nepali economy via remittance and thus you see in a small poor nation there are more banks than one can imagine to manage the remittance.

Kathmandu, its capital, goes through constant load shedding. Where the electricity is shut off by the government to manage the power demand. And, the people who can afford now have solar panels on the roof tops to manage the load shedding which has actually been a good thing. Nepal has vast water resources but is not able to utilize for power generation due to its own owes, week governments and corruptions. The constant change in government has allowed the country to go to the negative where prosperity and development is at its lowest.