Sturdy men with their arms and thighs naked digging out the sand with mattocks from deep within the Manohara River even in the chill, women holding the sacks and piling them up next to them, young guys, who told me were university students, loading and dragging the bicycles to the destination, peasants gently

weeding and knotting the vegetables in the farm aside, a fisherman

casting a hook into the water and waiting patiently set Nepali pragmatics

out there. Young lads often play

football down in the open veld with persistent rows and hurrahs. But some footloose boys emit a thick mass of smoke near the marijuana plants. Next to them, prattle noisily a groovy gaggle of belles on the ridge inspecting the mosaic of activities going around. Meanwhile, a pack of ravenous stray dogs grieved by scabies to death try to create bonhomie with some other giant ones who are oftentimes belligerent; snarl, spur and engage in a skirmish driving them away.

Gripped in a thin mist of fog, the hills around stand desperate

sensing the appalling situation of the country and so do mammoth igloos of landless along the riverbank.

Despite the majestic exposition of mountainous ranges on the northern sky glowing and beautifying the world, the semblance of the valley down below looks mundane. People are still struggling with the hand to mouth problems. Uncared roads, unplanned housing, mismanagement, desertion, contamination and everything looks deprived, suffered and exploited manifest the entire national picturesque scenario-blemished by tormenting political turmoil. Still ages it takes

to come a long way as almost

nothing has been done in the country. There appears none even to start it off. The progress and prosperity these countrymen are in quest for will probably be a Utopia. We have many unnecessary leaders, who lack homogeneity, patriotism, benevolent statesmanship to gear up and maneuver the campaign of change onwards amicably, but suffer inability, kleptomaniac psyche and failure. They are still squaring up, spitting venom and acting at the expenses of others, leaving the country in a limbo.

Perhaps, the day has not arrived for us, put-upon ones from the history, to be proud of our leaders’ progress and long leap towards prosperity.