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6 EDITORIAL Road to elections Major parties need to reach out to give smaller parties political ownership ALTHOUGH the major political parties seem closer to a deal on elections than they have been for the past eight months, it is still unclear whether the Chief Justice will agree to take up leadership of the election government. While all of the nation’s attention is focused on this issue, what has received far less attention is that there are political factors that could still block elections. In particular, there are many small political parties that feel left out from the current negotiation process. The larger parties in all likelihood assume that once they sort out a deal, it will be easy to get the smaller parties on board. This may be generally true. After all, many of the smaller parties also have a lot to gain from elections. But there are certain political groups that may not be as easy to negotiate with. The larger parties would do well to start negotiating with them soon if they want elections by June. One major problem that has often been commented on is the issue of re-delineating constituencies and updating voter rolls. This could be a major problem, especially in the Tarai. Many of the Madhesi parties that are currently in government seem to have no problem with the current plans of the larger parties. But there are some Madhesi groups that might not be so amenable. Upendra Yadav’s party, which still enjoys considerable support in the Tarai, is a case in point. If his group feels excluded from negotiations, it could well raise an agitation in the Tarai and refuse to participate in elections unless Madhesi concerns such as the re-delineation of constituencies are conducted. This in turn may cause the Madhesi parties in government to set their own preconditions for participating in elections. The larger parties need to start addressing these concerns as soon as possible. The other party that will likely cause problems is the breakaway Maoist party led by Mohan Baidya. This party is facing internal problems regarding their future strategy. Its leaders also feel left out of the negotiating process and are aggrieved. If they continue to feel this way, it is possible that they will do all they can to thwart an election deal. They may even engage in acts of violence and intimidation to prevent elections. In order to prevent this, the big parties need to reach out to them and listen to their concerns. Efforts need to be made to convince them that there is no other option but to hold elections. Given their common history, it would be best if Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal deals with Baidya in private. There are many challenges that need to be overcome if elections are to be held in June. The major parties need to be aware and address all of them if they are genuinely committed to holding elections. WE in Nepal have given more importance to the SLC examination than is actually necessary. The SLC has become almost the first indicator of education. Obviously, a huge fear and anxiety is associated with the SLC. Because of HEM RAI Hemrai21@yahoo.com our social schooling, we have a propensity to judge a student on the basis of the grades he or she secures in the examination but not on the basis of his or her competency. In the process of moving up from grade one to grade 10, one has likely accumulated lots of experience of appearing in examinations. Students are usually frightened, intimidated and even terrorised by the words like ‘terminal examinations’ and ‘final examinations’ in one way or the other. There is tough and sometimes cutthroat competition at present in the education sector. Different schools and students prepare for the SLC differently. The expectations of parents, Learning a little the student’s own ambition and norms of the society open up different paths of progress, but at the same time, that may create huge tension and contradictions. Psychologically, exam-phobia is such a problem that affects the tender mind of the youth both physically and mentally. Students who have set goals to do well in the SLC work hard year-long. But examination time brings about the feelings of fear, tension, anxiety and uncertainty. Students often lose their appetite and suffer from other problems like insomnia, headache, fatigue and fever. Anxiety actually makes the filter that is inside our brain, in between the receiving and production areas, more active in blocking the channels between star shaped cells and pyramid shaped cells. As a result, the students’ memory power may become even weaker. Many students become the victim of depression when they do not score high marks in the examination in spite of their hard work. Our social structure and schooling is such that one is considered to be an intelligent or a dull student on the basis of the marks one obtains in examinations. This mounts a huge pressure on students. Examinations thus become a factor of intense fear for the students and not a MADHESIS should not be seen as the spoilers of the election. But the voter list and the constituency are two real substantive things that need to be sorted out. Making a compromise on these issues can be sui- DIPENDRA JHA cidal for the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UDMF). The Madhesi political representation would be narrowed in the upcoming election as one in every three persons would be disenfranchised in Madhes districts. Almost three million missing voters are from the Tarai among the 4.6 million eligible voters who have not been registered in the citizenship-based voter list. If polls are not held according to the 2008 election voter list, a large number of Madhesi leaders would be badly affected and so will be the voters. Jay Ram Yadav’s victory in Upendra Yadav’s constituency in Mornag in the by-election is a clear example to support this argument. In every constituency in the Tarai, about 10,000 eligible voters are supposedly missing from the voter list. The picture is pretty much clear if you compare the latest Census data of the eligible voters with the district voter registration data mentioned in the book Voter Registration System in Nepal by Ayodhee Prasad Yadav, (pages 89, 90, 91 and 92). Look at the missing voters’ percent on a district-wise basis—Morang 29.67 percent, Sunsari 32 percent, Rauthat 34.5 percent, Bara 32.08 percent, Parsa 35.08 percent, Nawalparasi 28.64 percent, Rupendhi 37.15 percent, Kapilbastu 36.55 percent, Saralahi 34.64 percent, Mahottari 31.45 percent and Dhanusha 31.93 percent. About 33 percent of eligible voters or 100, 000 voters will be barred from enjoying their rights to vote in the election. This gap in the voter registration is also justified by the Dhanapati Upadhaya Commission, formed by the Government of Nepal in 1995 to address statelessness. That shows that more than 3.4 million people were stateless due to the lack of citizenship certificates. On November 3, 2010 the Supreme Voters and constituencies Guaranteeing Madhesis the right to vote to participate in political affairs is an important responsibility of the state Court denied the petitioner’s request to overrule the Election Commission’s citizenship certificate requirement to be eligible to register to vote. The court holds that the EC’s November 2 amendment provides a remedy for those Nepalis without citizenship certificates. On December 23, 2010, the Supreme Court rules that the ECN can: 1) prepare new voter rolls, as opposed to only updating the current rolls; 2) register Nepalis who are 16- and 17-years old; 3) collect personal details for the government’s national identity card project; and 4) collect photographs as part of the registration procedure. However, in the final decision in February 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that: 1) only citizenship certificates could prove eligibility for registering to vote; 2) if the validity of a citizenship certificate was in question, other government-issued documents could be proffered to confirm its legitimacy, but they could not establish eligibility for registration; and 3) the Ministry of Home Affairs must distribute citizenship certificates to those who do not have them. As per the SC directive, can the government distribute citizenship to 4.6 million eligible voters who have not registered in the citizenship-based voter identity card within two months? If not, requiring the citizenship certificate for voting is against the fundamental principle of right to voting because there is extensive discrimination against Madhesis in getting access to the citizenship certificate. For the 2008 elections the EC had registered 17.6 million voters, but current figures stand at 11 million. The large number of voters to be registered under the new system decreased in the absence of citizenship certificates. Here, it is important to remember that the 22point agreement between the Government of Nepal and the Madhesi People’s Right Forum on August 30, 2007 which assured that the former would “end all aspects of discrimination against Madhesis so as to create an environment inclusive of Madhesis and all Nepali people in the national mainstream.” Then PM Girija Prasad Koirala signed the agreement to “solve problems related to citizenship by redeploying the Citizenship Distribution Teams to the villages for easy and accessible distribution of the citizenship certificates.” The problem is not only in the Tarai. SLC phobia THE KATHMANDU POST | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 A large number of people in the hilly region are facing a similar problem. Thus this is not an issue of who is Pahadi and Madhesi; it is a question of the fundamental political right of an individual, who is eligible to get citizenship but still does not possess the card, who consequently will miss the opportunity to cast his or her vote in the upcoming election. The latest Census report also shows that the ratio of population has increased in Tarai from 49 percent to 51 percent meaning there’s reason also to increase the number of constituencies. One constituency is needed to be added in Tarai districts such as Sarlahi, Rautahat, Jhapa, Rupandehi and Sunsari. Right to vote is the essence of democracy. But it is difficult to understand why the UML and Nepali Congress, and even the UCPN (Maoist), oppose the UMDF proposal to give legality to the old voter registration list and increase more constituencies in the Tarai. “There is a widespread complaint that thousands of Indians received Nepali citizenship certificate,” they say. If that’s true, who did that? The majority of them are hill-Brahmin Chief District Officers (CDOs) who made money out of the citizenship business. Where is their so-called ‘national loyalty’ when they distributed the citizenship to Indians? For the CDOs’ faults and weak control mechanisms, genuine Madhesis cannot be punished. These people had voted in the past elections without citizenship. How can the faulty laws stop them in future from enjoying the same right? Another allegation is that “the Madhesis want to give citizenship cer- A few steps could easily cut away at all the stress and fear associated with the SLC PRAYASH RAJ KOIRALA THE public buses in Bangalore are often as packed as the public transport in Kathmandu. There are also rare occasions where I have felt like being in Kathmandu when I had to stay squeezed inside the bus and smell the horrible sweat of a person beside me. However, it is more comfortable travelling around in the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) buses rather than in the public vehicles around Kathmandu — the difference of one being public and the other being privately owned. The buses that run around Bangalore are managed by the Karnataka state government; whereas, the buses around Kathmandu are under the control o the businessmen and the private transport organisations. Thus, the state managed transport is service oriented and here, the privately owned transport of our country is profit oriented. However, there are a lot of things which can be learnt from the transport system of our neighbouring nation and can be implemented in order to improvise the transport system of Kathmandu. The greatest difference is that, in Kathmandu, the buses run after the passengers. To the contrary, people have to run after the buses in Bangalore. There is no one who comes out of the bus at each bus stop or at the door banging the doors and inviting the passengers in Bangalore. A bus only stops only if there is someone to drop off or if there is someone waiting at the bus stop. This has helped POST PHOTO postplatform means to evaluate what they’ve learnt. To combat SLC phobia, first of all, it is essential to control the fear of examinations. No external factor can help the students in this respect. How can one control this fear? The best way to do it is through preparation. If one is well prepared and confident, then worries and anxiety will take up less room in the mind. A balanced and nutritious diet is also really important. An empty stomach only fuels fear and anxiety. Food rich in iron and protein (amala, chana- gram, raharko daal, dry fruits, including almonds) should be included in the diet as they are considered ‘brain foods’. A glass of cold water after every hour of study can act as a quick refreshing agent. Recently, it has been proved scientifically that water can be regarded as brain food too. Self confidence is the main key to success in life. That also goes for examinations. Now the question arises: how can one build up self confidence? As far as I am concerned, the best and the only way to gain self-confidence is to study the curriculum deeply and fully by strictly following a time table set by the students themselves. Relying on guess papers or guide books available in the market is perhaps one of the worst ways to prepare for the SLC. A throrough under- to avoid the traffic jams on the places where the roads are small. The effort of the state in order to avoid the incidents of sexual harassments of girls is praise worthy. Almost 40 percent of the seats in the front part of the buses are the reservation seat for females. The open space beside the reserved seats in the front is only for the females to stand comfortably. Moreover, there is a separate door for females to get into the bus so that they can avoid the touching and pushing of ill-mannered mans during the rush hours. Regular users of buses can benefit from the system of ‘Buss Pass’. Anyone can get a bus pass from the conductor of the bus paying reasonable charges. These passes allow us to travel around tificates to as many Indians as possible so that these foreigners could be a promising vote-bank for them.” But just look at the economic boom in Bihar: no Bihari will be interested anymore in coming to the poor and insecure region of Nepal Tarai. These types of stereotypical Mahendrabadi thoughts have no substantive rationality. If the United Democratic Madhesi Front (UMDF) compromise on these two genuine issues, they will lose their legitimacy in the Madhesi constituencies. They would be co-opted into the political polarisation of the status quo, the power-seekers and opportunists. It does not matter whether the election is held in June or November. But guaranteeing the right to vote to participate in political affairs for all citizens is an important responsibility of the state. The principles of universal and equal suffrage such as the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, prohibits unreasonable limitations of an individual’s rights to vote. Restricting the Madhesi population who are willing to vote using socalled legal, administrative and practical obstacles are not justified on any grounds. It is hard to get official records in a short span of time. Documents like birth and marriage certificates, residency, housing, land and property records are needed to acquire citizenship and getting them takes time. That’s why we need to accept the 2008 voter registration list that took into account the situation of the Madhesis, including their lack of access to citizenship certificates. Jha is an advocate at the Supreme Court standing of the entire curriculum will go much further in giving students the confidence boost they need. Otherwise, they will forever be worrying about whether the questions in the guess paper will appear in the actual examination or not. Once one actually makes it to the exam hall how then do you solve the problems and answer the questions? This is a million dollar question. Prior to writing answers students should properly understand the questions first. Reading all the questions with a cool mind (perhaps take several long breaths from the nose) is very important so you know what it is exactly you are being asked to. Another really important thing is always to start with questions that are easy or which the student feels comfortable answering. Trying to tackle the hard ones first means that there might not be enough time at the end to answer the easy ones or that all the mental energy is already spent trying to answer the long and hard questions first. The SLC is not an iron gate. It is simply an exam and the sooner students can internalise this, the better they are likely to perform in it. Rai is associated with the Career Building International Academy in any of the BMTC buses for free for a day (with a day pass) or for a month (with a monthly pass). Moreover, students who regularly use the public bus to get to the school or college from their residence can also benefit with special bus pass for students. There are several other bus passes for the physically challenge people and disabled people. Special attention has been made towards the safely of the passengers by keeping an automatic door lock system. Thus, the passengers can get down the bus only after acknowledging the driver at designated bus stops. Many of these systems of Bangalore are feasible for Kathmandu too. These small changes can definitely make a huge difference and ease the transport problems faced by the Kathmanduties.
THE KATHMANDU POST | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2013 MEDIA should be neutral, unbiased and free I reiterate in my Mass Communication and Journalism class as 17-year old girls look at me with eager eyes, with ambitions to become journalists, reporters and media personalities. They expect to understand the complexities of the media, soaking in the syllabus and thinking that they have learnt enough to handle one of the most dangerous professions in the world. I may sound dramatic, but hear me out. I had to begin a new topic in my Mass Communication and Journalism class about Press Freedom. We began the class as usual with a discussion about press history; how, if we look back into the pages of history, we find that the Nepali press was not free—not under the autocratic Rana rule or the first stint at democracy in the 1950s; not under 30 years of Panchayat or 1990s democracy that followed and not under former king Gyanendra’s autocratic rule. Today, the media is still not truly free as we move forward on our third attempt at institutionalising democracy. One only has to remember a couple of years ago when journalist Khilanath Dhakal who was brutally beaten up by UML’s sister wing Youth force members. Just recently, the Nepal Republic Media office at Sundhara was vandalised by a mob claiming to be Shiv Shena cadres. Then, the murder case of Dailekh-based journalist Dekendra Thapa surfaced who was tortured and buried alive by the Maoists during the insurgency. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai was vehemently criticised for his order to withdraw the case against the accused murderers, which he later denied. That was reminiscent of bygone days of undemocratic practice. There were even reports of journalists fleeing Dailekh as they were threatened by the ruling party. Forget in history, even the last few months have been testing times for press freedom. By press freedom we understand that the reporters are free to report on any issue without the fear of repercussions. In democracy, the press plays the balancing role. It plays the role of an adversary to the government if the government is on the wrong side or doing wrong deeds; whereas it doesn’t fail to point out commendable efforts of the government for public welfare. The press should ideally fol- JUST A COUP THIS blind move to draw the judiciary into the political leadership is tantamount to a coup (“CJ dissatisfied with 9-pt deal,” February 19, Online). Long live Nepali democracy. Manohar Thapa Bangkok, Thailand _______________________ The legitimacy of the new government will not be based on the Shaping minds There’s little correlation between what we study in press theory and its applicability in reality KARISHMA KARKI low the social responsibility theory, which states that press is free and practices responsible journalism. However, in the context of Nepali media today, the government and the ruling party are still clearly trying to suppress any media, which is critical of them. Any policy that curbs press freedom is readily passed. The most recent example is the one window advertisement policy; in which the government decides which media institution will get its advertisement. We see that in the US freedom of press is outlined in the first amendment itself. I am not saying we be like the US which clearly follows the Libertarian theory of press where press is free to report on any matter: byproducts of which are the unethical contents in American media (not all). We all know that with freedom comes great responsibility. There are regulatory bodies such as the Press Council of Nepal, which gives ethical guidelines and codes of conducts on how the press should act. Not to forget the fact that reporters themselves are involved in activities of extortion in which they demand money or other items from people with threats of defamation. Then there are some who plant fictional stories, and some who, for monetary gains, are willing to write about people giving them instant fame. Time and again we have witnessed the shift in Nepali press theory from authoritarian, during the Rana period, to Libertarian in our short-lived democracy. Now for the big question: is our media shape shifting towards the communist theory? In the communist theory of press the communist party believes that no institution is above the party, including the press; it prevents the press as well as individuals from being critical towards the party. The most suitable examples are China and North Korea. We can draw a parallel to the threat the Maoist party gave to Kantipur reporters and of those journalists who had to flee Dailekh because of threats to their life. Journalists in Nepal need to tread safely. By the looks of it, the Nepali press is heading towards a direction in which in order to be safe, journalists have to pick up neutral topics which do not criticise the government or any political party. Then there will be no constant worry of security or pressure from anybody. Or, journalists can be uncritical of the government, appease the political parties and then exist securely. But doesn’t that violate the public’s right to information? Now to my dilemma, if aforementioned theories and facts are the current reality or going to be a scene for the future, then am I being honest in telling my students that the press is the fourth estate of the country; that it is the watchdog of the society? Karki teaches Mass Communications at St. Mary’s High School in Kathmandu Interim Constitution. What, then, will it be based on? It will not have popular legitimacy. For that, there should be a popular movement to form a new government irrespective of what the constitution says, just as Jana Andolan 2 succeeded in restoring the defunct parliament although it went against the then constitution. Therefore, the appointment of the Chief Justice as prime minister can only be considered a coup. Gopilal Chaudhary Bardiya _______________________ The CJ is completely right in his skepticism since the political parties want to keep the steering wheel with them and make the CJ drive the state bus in the direction they want to go. This will turn the whole idea of an independent election government into a joke—in other words, a farce. The parties should give the new government a free hand to conduct the election in a free, fair, and fearless manner. Then only will the POST PHOTO Nepali people trust the election results. Chief Justice Regmi should not accept the post with strings attached by the selfish political parties. Kbm Satdobato _______________________ Chief Justice Regmi, do not make this mistake and lead a government that is opposed by so many Nepalis. It’s not a unanimous decision but only the decision of four parties. What about other parties and other peoples’ wishes and views? CJ Regmi, please be careful, do not bring dishonour to your name. Dipendra Gywali Pokhara KANTIPUR TO THE RESCUE IT would have been much better if Kantipur would have vowed to uphold Nepali nationalism Why we love beautiful things LANCE HOSEY GREAT design, the management expert Gary Hamel once said, is like Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography—you know it when you see it. You want it, too: brain scan studies reveal that the sight of an attractive product can trigger the part of the motor cerebellum that governs hand movement. Instinctively, we reach out for attractive things; beauty literally moves us. Yet, while we are drawn to good design, as Hamel points out, we’re not quite sure why. This is starting to change. A revolution in the science of design is already under way, and most people, including designers, aren’t even aware of it. Take colour. Last year, German researchers found that just glancing at shades of green can boost creativity and motivation. It’s not hard to guess why: We associate verdant colours with food-bearing vegetation— hues that promise nourishment. This could partly explain why window views of landscapes, research shows, can speed patient recovery in hospitals, aid learning in classrooms and spur productivity in the workplace. In studies of call centers, for example, workers who could see the outdoors completed tasks 6 to 7 percent more efficiently than those who couldn’t, generating an annual savings of nearly $3,000 per employee. In some cases the same effect can happen with a photographic or even painted mural, whether or not it looks like an actual view of the outdoors. Corporations invest heavily to understand what incentivizes employees, and it turns out that a little colour and a mural could do the trick. Simple geometry is leading to similar revelations. For more than 2,000 years, philosophers, mathematicians and artists have marveled at the unique properties of the “golden rectangle”: Subtract a square from a golden rectangle, and what remains is another golden VOICE OF THE PEOPLE Kantipur Publications Pvt. Ltd., Kantipur Complex, Subidhanagar P. B. No. 8559, Kathmandu; Nepal Phone: 4480100, Fax: 977-1-4466320, e-mail: kpost@kantipur.com.np Simple geometry is leading to design revelations (“Kantipur to do all it can to uphold democratic norms,” February 19, Page 1). Otherwise, who will you felicitate for protecting Nepali democracy? All top political leaders in Nepal, including GP Koirala, have shown anti-democracy tendencies. Kantipur’s promise to protect Nepali nationalism would have been much better and relevant in the present context. Sandesh Sapkota Dhading GALTUNG’S THOUGHTS I FULLY agree with the views of Prof Galtung and admire his ideas on so many ‘cracies’ prevalent in contemporary Nepal—minus democracy (“Nepal is turning into a technocracy,” February 18, Page 6). He puts a lot of stress on negative and positive peace and ‘cultural’ violence in his literature. His opinion on the need to lift up the bottom in rectangle, and so on and so on—an infinite spiral. These so-called magical proportions (about 5 by 8) are common in the shapes of books, television sets and credit cards, and they provide the underlying structure for some of the most beloved designs in history: the facades of the Parthenon and Notre Dame, the face of the “Mona Lisa,” the Stradivarius violin and the original iPod. Experiments going back to the 19th century repeatedly It should come as no surprise that good design can have dramatic effects. We think of great design as art, not science, a mysterious gift from the gods, not something that results just from diligent study show that people invariably prefer images in these proportions, but no one has known why. Then, in 2009, a Duke University professor demonstrated that our eyes can scan an image fastest when its shape is a golden rectangle. For instance, it’s the ideal layout of a paragraph of text, the one most conducive to reading and retention. This simple shape speeds up our ability to perceive the world, and without realizing it, we employ it wherever we can. Certain patterns also have universal appeal. Natural fractals—irregular, self-similar geometry—occur virtually everywhere in Nepal is laudable. All prominent actors keep on promising to lift up the bottom but have failed significantly till date. Vidyadhar Mallik Battisputali, Kathmandu _______________________ Yes, inequality is the main problem in this country. Every culture and society within this nation should be respected. There is no need to accept the travesty called the caste system. Bijay Pokhara _______________________ It seems foreigners know very well the root cause or the ‘key problem’ that gives way to all other issues in Nepal—inequality within the country. Dev Rai US _______________________ Prof Galtung’s interview politely 7 nature: in coastlines and riverways, in snowflakes and leaf veins, even in our own lungs. In recent years, physicists have found that people invariably prefer a certain mathematical density of fractals—not too thick, not too sparse. The theory is that this particular pattern echoes the shapes of trees, specifically the acacia, on the African savanna, the place stored in our genetic memory from the cradle of the human race. To paraphrase one biologist, beauty is in the genes of the beholder— home is where the genome is. Life magazine named Jackson Pollock “the greatest living painter in the United States” in 1949 when he was creating canvases now known to conform to the optimal fractal density (about 1.3 on a scale of 1 to 2 from void to solid). Could Pollock’s late paintings result from his lifelong effort to excavate an image buried in all of our brains? We respond so dramatically to this pattern that it can reduce stress levels by as much as 60 percent—just by being in our field of vision. One researcher has calculated that since Americans spend $300 billion a year dealing with stress-related illness, the economic benefits of these shapes, widely applied, could be in the billions. It should come as no surprise that good design, often in very subtle ways, can have such dramatic effects. After all, bad design works the other way: Poorly designed computers can injure your wrists, awkward chairs can strain your back and over-bright lighting and computer screens can fatigue your eyes. We think of great design as art, not science, a mysterious gift from the gods, not something that results just from diligent and informed study. But if every designer understood more about the mathematics of attraction, the mechanics of affection, all design— from houses to cellphones to offices and cars —could both look good and be good for you. —©2013 The New York Times overlooks the horrible fact that Nepal is also now a kleptocracy—a thieves’ paradise in other words. All but a tiny portion of donor money, government grants and other foreign aid is stolen, thieved, pilfered and sucked into private pockets in return for nothing. This is done through hidden commissions, inflated pricing, counterfeit invoicing, grossly inflated consulting fees, bribes, back handers, and so on. Peter Sydney, Australia _______________________ It is worth considering that even a foreign social scientist such as Prof Galtung can show such a deep understanding of Nepal's social and political problems. I wish so-called Nepali intellectuals and leaders would at least show this kind of understanding and act according to it in order to get this ill-fated country out of its present turmoil. Dilli Sharma Baglung
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