Reading Nepali news from Europe: leader or daku

I was not a big fan of everyday news when I was in Nepal. Actually, I started reading news only when I was in my master's degree in Tribhuvan University (TU) (2002 AD). After completing master's from TU, I started browsing daily newspapers for regular political and social updates. Oh, I forgot to mention that I was highly interested in advertisements, too. Mostly foreign advertisements of educational consultancies, scholarships, bideshi education, blah blah. It was a fun to make calls to educational consultancies of Kathmandu after noting their phone numbers from the newspapers.

I did not get much time to follow news when I were working as a research assistant in Chintang and Puma Documentation project in Dhankuta. Agga! Chintangbe them patrika!

But now, after I came to Germany, reading Nepali news everyday became a part of daily ritual. Feels like, I missed something if I do not browse Nepali news-pages and some popular blogs. Everyday I open computer early in the morning with a big hope to get some good news. But they hardly bring any positive news. Then I remember the statement-- ''good news is no news!'' May be this is the reason there are hundreds of daily and weekly news papers in such a tiny country to cover all the bad news of the nation. And the next thing is that a bad news can easily make a news addict to someone. It becomes more complicate if you take it with your tea/coffee early in the morning.

I see a drama ~ may be a political drama in Nepal. Country itself is very good and highly blessed with different natural resources throughout the nation. But at the same time it is cursed with bad leaders. Did I say leaders? No no, they are not leaders, but simply dakus! Because leader is the one who leads you, and the daku is the one who robs you. If I borrow a Nepali jharro word from Khagendra Sangrolla, I have to use a prefix maha- to intensify the meaning of daku to justify the real semantics of Nepali so-called leaders.