Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Paradox of Education

Education teaches wisdom
Wisdom teaches patience
Patience leads to inaction
Educated people
(Mis)interpret wisdom as arrogance
Patience as senility
And inaction as cowardice.

Will you call this
The paradox of education?

लेनदेन

उनीहरू आए
हामीकहाँ
सपना माग्न
हामीले दियौँ
हाम्रा सपनाहरू
फटाफट

उनीहरू फेरि आए
हाम्रा सपना फिर्ता गर्न
जस्ताको तस्तै
जत्तिको तत्ति
हामीले पनि लियौँ
फटाफट

अवश्य आउनेछु

स्वाभावत:
मैले जूनलाई जून
र घामलाई घाम
सावित गर्न
कुनै कसरत गर्न नपर्ला !

मेरो गाईलाई तिमी गधा भनौला
तिम्रो गधालाई म गाई 

तर 
तिमी मन पराऊ नपराऊ,
म कालोलाई कालो
सेतोलाई सेतो भन्न
अवश्य आउनेछु ।

Challenges Ahead

Challenges ahead
Challenges that can't be met
By running away
And singing your own eulogy
And cursing others
In seclusion and safety!

Challenges that demand 
Bumping your head
Crushing your dreams
For the common good
Despite curses
Despite praises! 

Irony

Really hard they worked:
Boulders they removed
And land they levelled

They dug and ploughed and manured,
And the best of all fruits, vegetables and crops
They planted.

Finally,
They bored holes in the dykes
And went to rest.

Luckily ...

Tension between an ember and a spark;
Mediation sought;
Finally water comes forth,
And asks:
"Any help needed?"
Luckily,
Straw did not intervene! 



Monday, February 09, 2026

The Claim

The problem,
Nay, the damage,
Sir, is,
You muddle
In the dirt,
Nay, in the dunghill,
A hundred times,
Nay, nay, a thousand times,
To declare yourself
The diamond

Subscription

 If,
Aware of a hundred of your past fooleries,
I ask you, and myself,
A thousand queries
To clarify your position,
This does not mean
I will understand you.

If
I tell you one inconsistency
Plus a thousand you live with,
It does not mean
I subscribe to your position. 

Monday, February 02, 2026

लौ न हजुर!

यो भूमण्डलको 
कुन खण्डमा पुगेर
कुन ठोस पदार्थ खाँदा
कुन तरल पदार्थ पिउँदा,
यो वायुमण्डलको 
कस्तो हावाको श्वास लिँदा,
एकै चोटि ह्वारह्वार्ति फुर्छ हौ
देशप्रेम र राजनीति?

लौ न हजुर थाहा पाऊँ
मेलोमेसो नै पाइएन!


Sunday, January 25, 2026

हुन्न र !

दल यतै छन्
उम्नेद्वार यतै छन्
मतदाता यतै छन्
कार्यकर्ता यतै छन्
समर्थक यतै छन्
यतै चल्दैछ प्रचार-प्रसार

यतै छन् झण्डा
यतै छन् जुलुस
यतै छन् आमसभा
यतै छन् भाषण
यतै छ नाचगान
यतै छ नाटक
यतै छ चटक

टोल यतै छ
बस्ती यतै छ
गाउँ यतै छ
शहर यतै छ
प्रदेश यतै छ
देश यतै छ
विश्व यतै छ

यतै ल्याएपछि सबथोक
हे जुकरबर्ग भतिज
लौ न मिलाइ देऊ मेलोमेसो
यतै कतैबाट छ्यास्स भोट खसाल्ने

रहिरहे तिम्रो निगाहा
पछि संसद यतै चलाउँला
यतै बनाउँला सरकार
यतै चलाउँला देश
यतै रचौंला नयाँ इतिहास
हुन्न र!