Historians change history and give it new interpretations by collecting biased views. Events have happened and cannot be changed even God himself cannot change the past, but historians are supposed to look upon past events in history from different angles according to their convictions. Education was banned those days during Rana regime and those who gave life for the freedom struggle could not express properly in writing. Detail contextual analysis has to be done. The researchers of Nepal are doing research based mostly on false data and false descriptions of the past. True facts are erased and false facts are highlighted. This becomes very unfair for those who gave life for this nation. The books released on women movement of Nepal need to be revised.
Historians are able to change history; that is to change the meaning of an event which occurred without changing the event itself. We need to look upon history in a more scientific way. Technology today has power to capture, analyse and provide reports derived through the lenses of differect perspectives. For academicians of history department of Nepalese universities history is nothing but a mass social movements in which the events are only milestones. We loose valuable informations this way.
This country is remembered as a nation cursed by Satis. People tell us horror stories of "Sati Dhunga". The descendants of designers of such cruel system still continue to have grip over weaker section of the people. Nothing will come out of honest people's sacrifices. I have observed in the past the peer groups of my father fading away without the historical facts of their brave sacrifices being included in the history of Nepal. People who tried to reform traditional unscientific practices of social system and improve the governing system of the nation, sadly, remained in the minority and perished. Those class of people who suppressed innocent citizens lived and enjoyed corruption. Their ancestors appear to have perfected this art and handed it down to their future generations. Insane and incompetent people have mostly ruled people of Nepal. So corruption flourished. Corrupt people have become more powerful. Corruption will be further institutionalized in the land of Gautam Buddha. Citizens are speechless, powerless and have continued to keep quiet.
Education under the Shah kings was different from education in the culturally rich Malla period. Under the Shah rulers, education remained limited to performing Brahmin rituals and reading the alignments of stars and planets. Education seldom strayed into the exploration of the unknown and the adventurous. So in Nepal, the Brahmins remained ritualistic but were rarely learned. If in the past, prohibition against education for the general public was rooted in feudal power and the ruling class’ fear of people’s liberation, Brahmins’s fear against general citizen's access to education has its roots in ritualistic. They were jealous and used to feel threatened by other ethnic communities having creative skills including self learning skills through life experiences who had explored through travels through silk road during trading activities of those days. People with such enriched back ground were either eliminated or side tracked from the system. Enlightened families faced such tragedy and rulers saw to it that their contributions went unrecorded. Those Brahmins are unlike their Indian counterparts who had to confront Christian missionaries, British officials, and Muslim Mullahs without state patronage and monopoly. They had to take part in Shashtrartha (theological debates).
Everything faded away in the mist. the ladies in the photograph (B.S 2003) of the article faded away. Their past was erased. The erasure was forgotten. People who were not in the photograph of this article had control of the media and had resources and they controlled the minds of the people. Good people who sacrificed during Rana overthrow movement were side tracked by clever ladies who had no evidences of their claimed sacrifices. Bad system destroyed good people. They just wanted the constant reassurance from public that what they wrote is the truth. People who know the least about who sacrificed lives of those brave ladies, had the most to say, they had the most to suggest and criticize.
People in the past have tried to open eyes. Ancestors repent in shame when they realized that they defended the evil and they ridiculed honest people who gave life to the cause of national transformation. People then were trained to know past truth, while telling carefully constructed lies to use logic against logic. Common people believed anything because they were frightened. However critical thinking people always looked for deception and found the truth the smokescreen of fear. They didn't know then that they should listen to critical thinkers not fearful reactors. The sheep spent its entire life fearing wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. People of the past failed to identify the true enemy. The enemies were just jealous of the historical record in the minds of the people. Those who were close to those innocent leaders were aware of the weakness and strength and they did the most harm. The secret of freedom lied in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny used to be keeping them ignorant. Ignorance was the root and stem of all evil. There were two ways our ancestors were fooled. One was to believe what was not true, the other was they refused to believe that was true.
Most of Nepalese and Indian historians are not reliable. They start their mission to prove what fit to them and follow the instructions of the rulers who deputed them. Such documents are generated by such biased people who are on mission to destroy the facts instead of showing true facts. Everybody lies. Ruling parties lie. The media lies. It's a lie that should be discussed. Present day youth force should take keen interest on exploring the true facts of the past so that they can gain valuable knowledge from the experiential learning of older generations. The contents in the brains of these aging population will vanish with time if we don't record them and publish them.
The current youth force are blind on true facts of contributions made by honest visionary leaders of the past whose records on contributions have been deleted from the historical documents of Nepal. No wonder students stopped getting enrolled in the history department of Nepalese universities because text books and books weitten by so called leaders of this nation are not based on true facts of the past. People should not be kept in dark. Now it's the time for the truth to come out. With evidence let's document the truth. The learning lessions of the past should not vanish. This will help youth force to understand the past and prepare the future.
It's a age of technology so all the facts and figures have to be updated and made public. I am glad to see Google is making real progress in getting computers to look at language as more than just a bag of words, and these advancements are now making their way into its products. I do see communities working on translating books into foreign languages using Google translate and engaging experts to fine tine it to give a final shape. Poor people of Nepal now has hope to globalize their hidden talent by translating unique literature works of Nepal to reach international audience.
It is very unfortunate that Nepal government is not providing available volume of materials in order improve Google translate so that Nepalese society can improve learning from international scenarios. I wish I had sufficient budget to translate more than twenty books of my father in order to improve the Google translate and help open the eyes of rural areas of the world.
Facebook, Group mails and other Social Media brought older generation back together helping us reflect our past. Reunions of older gerations are certainly helping us recreating out past. The reunions gave me this opportunity be be back and socialize more helping me discover what I missed during days under our ancestors.
Young historians and journalists in today's world have access to "OLD is gold" photographs. Our ancestors were brainwashed not to appear near cameras. Large percentage of Nepalese ancestors didn't have photographs because they were brainwashed to believe that their life span will be cut short if they appear in photographs and archive them. Some ethnic groups had to destroy evidence by burning papers and photographs along with the dead body in the dead body burning pyre. Historians of Nepal lack evidence of records of the past especially among ethnic communities in Nepal. They were silenced communities. Therefore, contextual historical narratives are missing, making it difficult for young generation historians and journalists to write evidence based contextual narratives.
There are lot of untold stories of brave women in the past. Unemployed Newars went to Tibet. Mass scale unemployed Nepalese hill people used to join Indian, British army as Lahures. What a coincidence !!! But not many stories of Newar sects in Tibet. Also why only hill people like Magar, Tamangs and Newar ( Tuladhar clans) travelled out of Nepal. They have lots of stories, however, people were discouraged to record the untold stories those days. This could be an interesting study. Current generation youth are inquisitive about learning lessons about women's status in those days and how they lived and survived with their husbands away under a very vulnerable environment. Most of them perished and never returned.
Educators and researchers should explore to find, tell, and listen to counter stories that challenge and resist those silences. Historical injustices requires an attention to the present, as it is in the present that legacies of these so-called historical wrongs are renewed and reproduced. Unequal power structures work to create and reinforce historical narratives that contain “bundles of silences.” These silences are found not just in academic histories, but in sources, archives, and more broadly in how societies remember the past, tell stories, and establish historical significance.
Some people have revealed our ancient tradition and belief that whenever some one passes away all his possessions such as clothes etc and even his birth calendar (China) had to be burnt together with his body for whatever reason either he would haunt or cause troubles to his kins in his afterlife etc, which made the archiving almost impossible. It was also supported by the lack of print media which we have access in modern times. Whatever was handed down to us was the hearsay through generation to generation and that we have to take as proof without verification. Print media became available only by the mid fifteenth century since when especially the religious texts started to be reproduced. Vedas also are said to be carried down the ages through hearsays or popularly known as Shrutiparampara, but can we imagine such bulky tomes remained in someones' brain for so long!
That’s why "China" of leader Late Padma Ratna Tuladhar is kept and not burnt. Let’s start to preserve the chinas of distinguished people.
Looking through the lenses of rulers it could have been a strategic policy to wipe out the possibility of recording evidence based history. Indian history has wealth of information of the past events. Their history professors and researchers have lot of respected positions in the society. Their research findings of their legendary figures are based on mostly evidences. Evidences should not be destroyed making it difficult for present and future historians to unearth past records , anlyse them and arrive at the truth .
Most of the COVID-19 patients also believe in 33 crore “Devis and Devatas” and remaining Muslims and Christians also believe in blind superstitions not founded on scientific knowledge, thus unable to comprehend the true complexities of this deadly disease. They were unfortunately overpopulating around temples, churches, and mosques and infecting more people around and spreading this deadly disease. They also cannot differentiate between misinformation floating on various print media, television, and social media. They are dying because of lack knowledge on such sensitivity of COVID-19 complexities. Same situations were observed during year 2015 earthquake time. People were lined up more torads rituals than scientific analysis of sesmic science, pshychological and physical destructions.
Same used to be situation in the context of our ancestors. Their learning lessons are based on Demonic beliefs and rituals. Heera Devi Yami revolted against such system and going against such social norms used to risk taking too.
I was in Philips Holland for one year in 1985. In front of my flat there was eight story building for senior citizens. They had library with good collection of books. I used to watch senior citizens reading thick volumes of history books. I used to speak to them and they used to enjoy telling me about their past historical experiences of Europe. They were above ninety years old enjoying reading about past. Even while traveling in trains I see senior citizens reading books. They were so knowledgeable. Our ancestors were mostly taught stories about DEMONs and rituals based on superficial superstitions. When I talked to our senior citizens, they can only relate narratives on fear mongering stories. No wonder we remained so underdeveloped.
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