“Don’t think that this king is doing good,” writer and engineer Hutaram Baidya, 85, said. “He is just roaming around the country receiving flowers and garlands and saying people ‘I understand, I understand’.”
Old Man and The Bagan Beliya Flower Tree: Hutaram Baidya is a 85-year-old man whose latest book on Nepali politics was published on Sunday, Falgun 7, the Democracy Day. The book, titled “Falgun Saat Ko Samjhana” is the collection of 13 articles that the old man penned and published in the last 14 years. Pic by Wagle
By Dinesh Wagle
“Its my first book that deals with socio-economic aspect of Nepal,” Hutaram Baiday started talking about “Falgun Saat Ko Samjhana” published by his student Kamal Mani Dixit. Dixit wanted to present Baidya, his teacher, with Guru Dakchhina after uttering uttering the names of his previous books on technology and agriculture. “This one is about the importance of democracy for poor people.” He explained that the democracy that the political leadership talked about was different from the democracy that the poor people aspire for. “For poor people democracy is all about feeding themselves with two foods a day,” Baidya said. “For them democracy is about fulfilling basic needs. But for those who talk about democracy in urban area are talking about rights and power. They are talking about power democracy not the economic democracy.” Continue reading
