Unfiltered rants from the morning Chiya Pasal to the evening Bhatti.
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Lumbini should be our Mecca or Jerusalem. Instead, it’s a quick transit point where you boat for an hour and leave. We have a massive branding problem. With the Balen administration driving at 400 mph, we need to move past the whining phase.
Our Balen-era government has once again performed the sacred ritual of the "Official Objection." The target? India’s annual tour plan through Lipulekh. It’s the kind of diplomatic drama that keeps us awake at night while our chimekis (neighbors) sleep like babies.
In a shocking twist of fate, PM Balen has decided to... stay in Nepal and work? Groundbreaking! He isn't rushing to Delhi to see if Modi really has a 56-inch chest, nor is he flying to Beijing for free Olympics tickets like Prachanda did.
Most of our hakims and netas are actually very "poor" on paper. They don't own much at home because they’ve registered hundreds of ropanis in the name of their drivers, distant cousins, or even the innocent doko-dai ferrying goods in New Road.
In three decades of mili-juli sarkaars (coalition governments), the Nepal Army has remained the only institution that the old-school parties couldn't fully politicize or turn into a private puppet show. We remember when Prachanda, living the high life in Baluwatar, tried to fire the Army Chief to install a "yes-man." When he failed, he resigned like a juvenile delinquent.
It seems the primary qualification for being a Communist leader in Nepal is successfully acquiring public land as a sukumbaasi. While the poor struggle, these "comrades" have built four-story villas on the riverbanks. Even a former Maoist Minister saw his permanent bungalow get the bulldozer treatment recently.
ur Supreme Court has finally decided to put an end to the "VVIP Welfare Fund," a legal loophole that allowed our former so-called elites to bill the State for every sneeze and sniffle. The scale of the heist is clear: Rs 4 billion was handed out to so-called netas for foreign medical care between 2006 and 2016.
As we drift into this "new new" Nepal, we have to ask ourselves: What Would Buddha Do (WWBD) about our current chaos? Whether it’s the real (or very fake) squatters or the government’s "Bulldozer Balen" approach to the promised land, would the Enlightened One just whine about the pollution and retribution?
Most of our old-school political parties have more sister organizations than a soap opera has plot twists. Each has its own trade union, led by "revolutionary" bosses who are suspiciously wealthy. These union leaders have mastered the art of the "mili-juli" shake-down.
Listen up, fellow patriots! Sometimes we get so high on our own supply of "Buddha was born in Nepal" and "Mount Everest is ours" that we for…
For decades, our government employees have been checking out at 58—a retirement age set back when our life expectancy was a dismal 60. It wa…
For two decades, Deepak Bhatta reigned as the undisputed heavyweight "Dalal" champion of Old Nepal. He was the invisible hand in every cooki…