Change i don't want: THE NATIONAL FLAG
Every time I start to write something for my blog I always find myself in dilemma strangled with many questions and unsolved mysteries. And yet again this was the same. The hot news this weekend about changing nepali national flag made me grieve seeing the intellectual status (I couldn’t decide a word to explain their pathetic thinking so I just mentioned it as intellectual status though it is a sarcastic) of the so called revolutionary and reformist. This news has not only hit the nepali media but also other international media like hindustan times(see the news in Hindustan Times ). Statue were broken in the name of change, colleges, parks, buildings and monuments were renamed in the name of change and this time someone is trying to change the national flag again in the name of change.
It doesn’t count whether some ruler during some regimes in history were a Suryavamsi or others were Chandravamsi. What counts now is our faith, our belief and our interpretation of the facts. And the fact for me is that this national flag is our history, our identity, our spirit and symbol of our na
tional unity. It has been so since ages and it will be the same for the time to come. So far I know thousands of our fellow Nepali citizens also think the same. The prime reasons they have stated is that this flag signifies feudalism. I’m so confused coz I haven’t yet found any relation between so called feudalism and bitriangular national flag with sun and moon engraved on it. I just want to know from when did the sun and the moon started to signify feudalism, from when did the red color that have been the symbol of pride and sacrifice (not for normal citizen but for so called reformist and the communist also) have become the symbol of slavery and from when did the blue color also known as the color of peace and harmony started to provoke Hinduism and Buddhism only? Also people say flag is not inclusive. Why not try this, let’s cut a piece of a flag and distribute among the leaders of various parties, religion and ethnic groups. What more are doing in the name of inclusion and participation more than just dividing what we have.Finally I have a question to ask for those who felt the urgency of changing the flag despite having thousands of problems still to be solved. Are we trying to destroy all we have in the name of change? But comrade, be careful this is not what corers of Nepali expected from you. What we were expecting was to destroy feudalism, international intervention, inequality and poverty in the shadow of your prominent leadership. Or are you just trying to hide your incapability by blaming some abstract and irrelevant thing like “THE NATIONAL FLAG”.
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