Comments on: Suffered by Gyanendra and Guerillas, Nepal Gets Inflation Headache http://blog.com.np/2007/02/22/suffered-by-gyanendra-and-guerillas-nepal-gets-inflation-headache/ We blog for peace and democracy in Nepal Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:36:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: manan http://blog.com.np/2007/02/22/suffered-by-gyanendra-and-guerillas-nepal-gets-inflation-headache/comment-page-2/#comment-43682 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:42:53 +0000 http://www.blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2007/02/22/suffered-by-gyanendra-and-guerillas-nepal-gets-inflation-headache/#comment-43682 Yes, Nepal did suffer from Gyanendralitis or whatever you want to call it. Actually, gyanelitis is only a milder version of something Nepal experienced for the last two hundred years, Shahdyanastilitis, and its time to get rid of it once and for all.

]]> By: Bhudai Pundit http://blog.com.np/2007/02/22/suffered-by-gyanendra-and-guerillas-nepal-gets-inflation-headache/comment-page-2/#comment-43681 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:43:54 +0000 http://www.blog.com.np/united-we-blog/2007/02/22/suffered-by-gyanendra-and-guerillas-nepal-gets-inflation-headache/#comment-43681 Prayatma:
Good points. To have a functional democracy I think two things are important. You need leaders and people who love their country and wish to work for the walfare of their country. Our leaders obviously don’t pocess these vitues – they would sell their motherland for a Pajero. The other problem I see in Nepal are the Nepalese themslves. You have to understand why the post 1990 era was not as successful besides the incompetancy of the political leaders. I think a significant part of the failure also lies in the people. Perhaps its due to illiteracy or the fact that Nepalese came out of years of autocratic rule but we are also to blame since we did not DEMAND accountability from our leaders. It takes alot alot of time for people to be acustomed to a democratic mindset where they take responsibility for the performance of their leaders. And I don’t think we did this enough. I agree we do need a new generation of leaders but its hard to see that kind of potential in the future – at least I don’t.

Shaman:
UN HDI may have come fallacies but its about the most reliable indicator for measuring social well being. Maybe some of the numbers are inflated but I think between 1990 – 1996 (before insurgency) there were some good developments in terms of development in rural areas. For example the VDCs were starting to take some effect etc.
With your comments with regards to agriculture I agree there are problems. But its largly because there has been no effort to develop our agricultural sector. Like you mentioned we need land reforms and improvement in farming techniques. But such develpment requires political leadership (especially land reform) and unfortunetly we don’t have any.

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