Nepal's ethnic battle is turning out to be a farce. As it is, nothing gets done there anyway and now to exacerbate the problem, this spineless govt is gonna create 18 more holidays. Shit, America has immigrants from all over the world, but they do not declare holidays for anything else except for Christmas.
Some new holidays.
Eid

 Bakr Eid

 Christmas

 Nanak Memorial Day

 Udhouli

 Ubhouli

 Goura

 Tamu Lhosar

 Sonam Lhosars

 Maghi

 Siruwa

So, now we might as well start celebrating Thanksgiving, July 4th, India's independence day, The Hritik Roshan Kand memorial day. For god's sake wtf is Nanak Memorial Day? Since when did Punjabis become a substantial minority in Nepal?? Idiots!

Haahaa.. if we even had saturdays and sundays off as before, we'd probably now be having more holidays than working days in a year.. anyway, we're making new records... come april and we'll see more of such records!!

Kick those Madhesis out !!!!!  They eat Nepali grain and work for indian politics......they are bunch of son of gun!!!

We should all open new jati in nepal. if there will be 300 jatis in Nepal there will be 365 days of holidays .

All the Madhesis you don't belong anywhere!!!!! Not to Nepal or India because u guys are traitors like TALEBANSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

well, that gives politicians more bodies for their julus and nara programs...you get tired of staying home and watchin z tv eventually hoina ra?

smart strategy by the politicos! lets create more holidays! how about a NRN day for all of us who no longer live there? and a illegal immigrants day to celebrate all the brave souls who are living in other countries illegally to support their families back home?

If I get rich enough, i'll hire local gundas to pressure on the government to recognize my b'day as a National Holiday

Well Fu*k Maoists and resolve all issues.
Thats how I see it.

HAHAHA...All of a sudden I see that the social disparity which used to be a positive number has zeroed down and now on the verge of going negative because of the overwhelming awareness of social exclusion among leaders and the people of Nepal. As the adage goes: "Napaune le kera payo bokrai sudda khayo" HAHA.

I think most of these new 'National' holidays are regional holidays in practice(for related people or places) as I don't see the relevance of most of these festivities in parts other than where the respective ethnic groups live/belong to. For instance, I don't think Nanak Memorial Day has any relevance to the people in Himali regions. I believe most of these are just named as 'National' holiday for the sake of equal representation with other main festivities of the country and that they will only be applied to the people/places of respective ethnicities.

Correct me if I am wrong. Last thing I want is to sit idle at home for a festival I don't even know the name of and which has no importance whatsoever in the place I live.

I donno but Kantipur calls them "public holidays," so I'm guessing yes!

yeah looks like it is. i don't understand why we end up doing things of lesser priorities before those that demand more attention. there are several things that are needed to be addressed and should be done first to firmly head towards a socially inclusive society and give equal rights of opportunities and proportionate representation to all ethnicities and what we end up doing first is: declare public holidays for all of their festivals. this is freakin' insane. DUH!

"Aula dida dudo nilne bhanchan ni," tyai ho! These Madhesi netas are full blown, shameless Indian agents. The Motherphukking  Congress (I) had to come to mediate the talks between the govt and the Madhises. I won't be terribly shocked if Madhes becomes Nepal's very own Kosovo.

.Mr. Dave, you had me in stitches with the mention of hiring gundaas for pressurizing "the" government. On a serious note, it is sad to see less priority issues given more importance. Where are we heading - towards the hope of new dawn or to the black hole?

Insanity persists everywhere, Duh!

This is a haphazard decision. I think this is going to be rectified (by the elected government when things settle down and a certain equilibrium/stability is achieved) and most of these new holidays and some of the older Hindu holidays too will become “National festivals” and “Local/community holidays”.

 

If that did not happen, then there will be two Nepals. One, hard working and efficient “private sector Nepal” (private businesses, private schools etc) disregarding these holidays, and, the second, lazy and inefficient “Public sector Nepal” enjoying all of them and doing not much worthy. This can not last long.

 

To put it rhetorically, democracy, being a self-correcting system, must correct these hopefully transitional/transient anomalies as time goes by, or so I believe.

 

Nepe

 

And just imagine what 'good' this is going to bring from the already inefficient and incompetent bureaucracy of ours that's been lying there barren for ages. Talk of change, restructuring and reconstruction of new Nepal! Jeez!

Nepe ji,
Any revision, if not rectification, do you see coming from the elected government on the proclamation that declared Nepal as a secular state? I think that was another hasty decision made without proper research whatsoever on the potential threat it can bring to the otherwise religiously harmonious Nepal.

While I am quite optimistic about very many issues from local, ethnic and community levels popping up (which IMO had to be addressed one way or the other and sooner or later for the restructuring and rebuilding process), I am more worried than baffled from the haphazard decisions these short-sighted leaders end up making behind curtains without much transparency and research onto it as this can bring forth more agitation and hence graver situation than they could ever imagine in the country. Democracy can have a big learning curve but we got to make sure we don't end up making blatant errors from our judgment or the lack of it which are costly -- time-wise, resource-wise and security-wise--and which can derail Nepal pushing it further down the drain.

Just when I thought I should go back home and relentlessly work and serve my New Nepal by seeking a full-time job there, lo there are so many paid holidays.

What else do I say now???

Mr. Hyde,

 

HaHa. Paid holidays, however, are going to be paid in one way or the other by underpaid workdays, नि त ।

 

 

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Loote-jyu,

 

I agree with your intuition and common sense regarding the cost of haphazardness. However, as for the decisions taken by our transitional government so far -- as far as I can see -- for most of them including “secular state”, indecision or refusal were about to be more costly than the haphazard decisions.

 

“Secular state” was Maoist’s and progressive civil society’s agenda and there was no way to refuse them at that time of appeasement and winning the trust being the state's need.

 

Although imposed, I am not really unhappy with the declaration of secular state. First off, I think it is good for Nepal. It keeps everybody except kattar Hindubadis happy and united, and it gives us an image of a modern or modernizing country--something that might be very crucial to attract large foreign investments (from non-Hindu and secular countries) in future. Then, not to lose our democratic credential, we still have chance (broadly speaking) to review it, if there happened to be tremendous popular displeasure/rebellion against it.

 

By any standard of fairness, if Hindu state of Nepal can get 230 unquestioned years, the secular state of Nepal should get at least 10 unquestioned years. Ki kaso ? If it has to be tested, let’s do a referendum sometime in 2017 AD. Secular state deserves some years to prove its merit. त्यति concession त दिनै पर्छ, यार ।

 

Even without all that, the new constitution drafted by new Constitution Assembly eventually (with whatever decision/reviewing/endorsement on the secular state) is going to be presented to the people for their endorsement (the exact formality has not been worked out. So it could be presented to the parliament or just plainly to the people for their vocal support or who knows will be put in a formal referendum). That should pass the democratic test for all that there are in the constitution for all practical purpose.

 

So it’s not over yet. We can not judge it yet. जस्तो लाग्छ है मलाई त ।

 

Nepe

well how about sujata's  ko Bday,sujata ko kukur ko Bday and yes  add madhav nepal, prachanda , baburam  all shhtheads Bday who are running the country also  

Not to Forget

 Rajiv ghandi,Indira ghandi  ani india ko independence day, sonia ghandi, rahul ghandi, after all  they are running Nepal now and we are becoming india in next few years .

Also Girija may add Amitab bacchan ko Bday,Lalu oprasad ko Bday as a natioanl holiday  who knows/

 

 

 

 

  Seems like its another big blow towards monopoly of bahun and chhettreiii .....

nepe bro,
i, for one, am not against secularism per se, matter of fact i think that's where we should take our nation to (a disparity free society which gives equal opportunities and freedom of speech for the people and freedom to choose their own religion and  practice culture without imposition and without coming in the way of others--signs of a free, independent nation) but i am not just confident about the way the reconvened parliament brought about series of proclamations (one after the other) including the one for secularism.

i don't know, and some of you may argue here, if religious minorities were discriminated against in any way when we were hindu kingdom, but if religious tolerance had prevailed in nepal so far, secularism wouldn't/shouldn't be a problem and sooner or later we had to be confident enough to transform into secularism. but then again, i don't know if the proclamation, rather than letting people's opinion as well to come to the table, was the way to go about it. last thing we want is those hindu extremists to create confusion among people (most of whom are uneducated) and agitation among  different religious groups--the chances of which would have been slim to zero if we had gone through a gradual progression making sure all holes and patches were covered and all screws were tightened. tetti matra ho.