Friday, March 6, 2009

Shutdowns !


Terai shutdowns, private schools shutdowns... it's about time we had a bandh in KTM as well. I hope Bam Dev is doing some Ram Dev for his face. Thank God... half of his face is paralyzed whereas the whole Terai is paralyzed from top to bottom!

Bam Dev started out with a bang. He must have studied Mullah Omar's biography or something. Closing down Thamel @ 11 has not made life difficult for the business-wallahs. We are Nepalese... we know how to get around the loopholes.

Thanks to the Maobadis, business folks have to pay triple taxes. If you are a marketing manager working for an adult entertainment film company then this is what you would call a 'triple penetration'... u got to pay the government taxes then pay off the cops and give a little something to the YCLs and then pay off Deepak's boys from Kavre!

Okay, that makes it four... Superfecta! Only if you knew which parties would need how much, then life would have been easier for our bar owners but it all depends on the weather. In Nepal, we don't know which way the wind blows. Some days, the cops get to eat the whole cake, sometimes it has to be shared with everyone else and that makes all of them miserable!

Bam Dev's natak has made life 'for taxi drivers, momo-wallahs, one-rack grocery stores' a living hell. Business is down by 80%. It's always the little people who get @#$ed in the arse and the big ones know how to bend the rules and still make some money along the way.

Private schools are closed today. PABSON folks say 'No to 5% EST' ... the government says 'Don't make me come and kick your arse' and the students are pissed that 'they have to go to school on Saturdays' to make up for it.

And in the next few years, all the private schools in Nepal will move to India and Desi airlines will make tons of money because terai shutdowns will make it difficult for KTM parents to travel by road!

No water, no electricity... but life goes on... long after the thrill of living is gone! Oops... where did this come from? We need two volunteers who are willing to give up their lives for a good cause. Any takers? No! This is not Sri Lanka or New Delhi where people blow themselves or do a self-BBQ by lighting themselves up!

Yes... we can have one brave non-swimmer to dive into a Water Corporation ko pani tankie and another dude to be a 'city' Tarzan by showing his tricks by swinging from a high-voltage tower. Then we can all storm the NTC and NEA building and do a one-of-a-kind 'Burning Man' festival in KTM!

The two brave souls (women can also apply... let's make it an equal opportunity operation!) will get 10 lakhs from the government and if we push it a little further then we can have them declared Martyrs and maybe ask the local print shop to come out with T-shirts like the ones with Che!

God... I need some Prozac!

1 comment:

  1. lmao

    I hope Bam Dev is doing some Ram Dev for his face.
    haha

    TOTALLY AGREE.
    they cuda made the time limit up to 1 or 2 am nee. and SO MANY DIFFERENT GROUPS WANT THEIR OWN THING. why can WE BE NEPALI AND FULL STOP AT THAT.
    now the MUSLIM NEPALI SOCIETY are offended with the madhesi tag... i just dont get it... if you live in madhes then ur a madhesi.. same for a pahaday living in pahad, its not like the government are calling them a ' you bastard madhesi'.. then THAT would be something to protest about

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