humane expectations
...e in UAE. No he wasn’t abducted by any of the ‘extremists’ nor was his face put on display on either Al Arabia or Al jazeera accusing him of being the servant of the ‘extreme superpowers’, he had died a quiet unnoticed death. His death did not make it in any of the newspapers or television channels. He had passed as if he never existed. Though the caller had no exact knowledge of his death, he suspected that it was an act of some local thugs trying to loot his earnings. For a moment I lay on my sofa comfortably numb. My mind was caught in whirlpool of thoughts and often I could feel my brain cells being eaten, torn apart into pieces, by what seemed like a huge school of piranhas. His death was certainly not an exception one for the days that followed I came to know that on an average TIA gracefully receives at least two or three body bags which are then directly taken downhill to the banks of Bagmati to be converted into ashes. I say ‘to be converted into ashes’ not because that’s the ritual we have to follow. Certainly not all are fortunate enough even to get an opportunity to perform the last rites for many bodies for many of them just vanish in the oil wells and sandy deserts of the Middle East. It’s just that because the process of acquiring the bodies is so time taking that what you get at the end after going through endless hassles is fleshless bodies, only identifiable by the name written on the wooden casket. Event that followed after the extermination of twelve Nepalese in the most brutal manner needs no mentioning. The gory images still haunts many of us who saw the four minute video footing. Naturally the whole nation grieved and even more naturally the political parties were not to be left behind. The blame game started accusing the government of not doing enough and rightly so. ‘Should have done this and that’, the typical Nepalese syndrome of having our brains behind our bottoms came into foreplay and we were soon inundated with expert opinions. Certainly it was not a case of ‘hit and run’. Number of days passed and no one seem bothered t...