Farce to Serious
Neelam Adhikari
Nepal’s politics has gone from serious to ridiculous to farce. What is responsible for it? Lack of women in leadership.
We women are repositories of love and compassion and good at multi-tasking. Our heart bleeds for our family and other’s children as well. We can work our hands and brain at different things at the same time. That makes us smarter but imposes on us disproportionate burden as well.
The experience of Western countries where women and men have less inequality than in developing countries has shown that girl students do better than boy students in schools and tests. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, female students outperform and outnumber their male counterparts in schools and universities.
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Even when we are not in the frontline, we constantly inject sanity into society, our husbands, brothers and children. At the very least, they sacrifice their comfort for the success of their male folks so that they can succeed in their endeavor. That is why it is often said, behind every successful man there is a woman.
It may sound boastful but it is true that women keep men and the world sane. We are not immune from our own absurdities and contradictions, but ours are much milder than our men’s. Nepal’s politics suffers from incoherence, absurdity insanity that is not found elsewhere.
I can understand the demand of different ethnic groups for their ethnic states for their identity and for the protection and growth of their language and culture. Though such states may be economically unviable or weak, there is a strong political logic of identity in a society where minorities have played second fiddle in policy-making.
However, the terrain of absurdity starts when the same leaders make mutually contradictory and exclusive demands. Let me start with Limbu leaders demanding an ethnic state for
Neelam Adhikari
Nepal’s politics has gone from serious to ridiculous to farce. What is responsible for it? Lack of women in leadership.
We women are repositories of love and compassion and good at multi-tasking. Our heart bleeds for our family and other’s children as well. We can work our hands and brain at different things at the same time. That makes us smarter but imposes on us disproportionate burden as well.
The experience of Western countries where women and men have less inequality than in developing countries has shown that girl students do better than boy students in schools and tests. In countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, female students outperform and outnumber their male counterparts in schools and universities.
Yet, women cannot emulate …show more content…
Even when we are not in the frontline, we constantly inject sanity into society, our husbands, brothers and children. At the very least, they sacrifice their comfort for the success of their male folks so that they can succeed in their endeavor. That is why it is often said, behind every successful man there is a woman.
It may sound boastful but it is true that women keep men and the world sane. We are not immune from our own absurdities and contradictions, but ours are much milder than our men’s. Nepal’s politics suffers from incoherence, absurdity insanity that is not found elsewhere.
I can understand the demand of different ethnic groups for their ethnic states for their identity and for the protection and growth of their language and culture. Though such states may be economically unviable or weak, there is a strong political logic of identity in a society where minorities have played second fiddle in policy-making.
However, the terrain of absurdity starts when the same leaders make mutually contradictory and exclusive demands. Let me start with Limbu leaders demanding an ethnic state for