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 Samrat Upadhyaye on Jim Lehrer show last evening

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Posted on 04-26-06 9:46 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Did anyone watch Samrat's interview on Lehrer show on PBS last evening?

What did you guys think?
 
Posted on 04-26-06 11:29 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I watched this Smarat speaking. I think he is an Indian agent. A typical brahmin who hates the King. He is not a proud Nepalese. Shame on him for crticising our King.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 11:50 AM     Reply [Subscribe]
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What you Mean. All Brahman are not Gyane Chor haters. There are some Crooks Bahun who still support Gyane.

F**K Gyane and his sucker Son Parase
 
Posted on 04-26-06 12:16 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i was gonaa post a thread about this.that mo fo doesnt know what hes talkin about..he was on national tv ..and he the the chance to say the truth and ehats goin on in our system and s#it...he fcuked up..upaddhyaa bajeeeee..im thinkkin of writin a letter to the PBS and tell them he was bullshhiitting..what does that mo fo know whats goin oon in nepal ..muji khaire ko baan haru ko muji nepal ko koi sanga lina parhca ni intreiview uji indiana ko baje snaga
 
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I was also not impressed with his interview.

I think he doesn't know himself on what is going in Nepal or may be the way he put it.

I was expecting more from him. I think you and I could have said much better.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 2:09 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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This guy is the most overrated moron ever. Anybody who compares penis to the tower of dharahara deserves to be forgotten!
 
Posted on 04-26-06 4:37 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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C'mon guys that's unfair.........I don't find any wrong with Samrat comment on present poltical situation and King Gane.........
Following are the link for Audio.........

- http://media.pbs.org/ramgen/newshour/expansion/2006/04/25/20060425_nepal28.rm?altplay=20060425_nepal28.rm


Full Script.......on Audio.......
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IAN WILLIAMS: Victory day is how Nepal's political leaders described it. But in the town of Kantipur, feelings were more mixed. Their voices had counted, but would they continue to do so?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are not fully happy. The people of Kantipur, they are having a rally and that is not the rally of winning, victory, but a pressure rally. We want to keep the pressure to our leaders.

IAN WILLIAMS: And as they set off for Katmandu's Ring Road, led today by the women, they chanted slogans against the king, but also warnings to their own political leaders not to let them down, as they have so often in the past.

Today, those leaders moved swiftly to appoint a new prime minister, veteran Nepali congress leader G.P. Koirala (ph). They say that when parliament is reinstated Friday, their priority will be elections for a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, examining the future role of the king. And they want talks with the Maoists, with whom they have a loose alliance.

With tens of thousands parading around Katmandu's Ring Road, they also announced an end to protests and to the general strike. But in a statement, the Maoists said the agitation should continue until the constituent assembly is established. Their influence in the capital has grown since the protests began.

The crowds cheered as they passed the office of Kantipur newspapers, who have been brave and outspoken in their coverage.

Over the past few days, you could be forgiven for thinking nobody in Katmandu has a good word for the king. That wouldn't be entirely right. Major General Bharat Simha (pH) is honoree aide-de-camp to the king.

He regards the protest as a conspiracy by the Maoists and India -- his views reflecting the deep contempt with which the palace holds Nepal's political elite.

MAJOR GENERAL BHARAT SIMHA (pH): Unfortunately, multiparty system, because of the corrupt leaders, it is not going to be good here for Nepal.

IAN WILLIAMS: By late afternoon, crowds were marching and chanting in the city center. There was a more threatening edge to the protests.

The authorities are taking no chances, especially here -- less than half a mile from the royal palace. This line of riot police is backed up by several more down the street.

Now the politicians might have declared victory, but here on the streets, there is still a great deal of anger and passion.

Political leaders say the protests are over for now. But if the politicians fail to deliver, the people will almost certainly be back on the streets.

GWEN IFILL: Margaret Warner takes the story from there.

Why is this political upheaval happening now?
MARGARET WARNER: And for more, we talk to Samrat Upadhyay, a Nepalese writer who is now an English professor at Indiana University. His prize-winning collection of short stories, "Arresting God in Katmandu," has been published around the world. His latest collection is titled, "The Royal Ghosts."

And, professor, welcome. Thanks for joining us.

SAMRAT UPADHYAY, Professor, Writer: Thank you.

MARGARET WARNER: Help viewers who don't follow Nepal much understand. Explain why we've seen this political upheaval in the last few weeks. What's going on?

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: Well, if we look at the more recent history, we go back one year in 2005, February, when King Gyanendra sacked the prime minister and basically took over the country and diverted the country back to absolute monarchy.

And since then, there have been a lot of detentions, tortures of journalists, and people imprisoned -- people disappeared. So that is the short history of it.

But if you go back even longer, I think we have to look at this present uprising in terms of what happened in 1990 when Nepalese revolted against long years of repressive one-party (inaudible) system, close to 30 years of it.

And I think what King Gyanendra did was that he instilled a lot of fear in the people that we have somehow gone back to those years. And the scale of this uprising had just been astounding even to someone like me who is watching from afar, because it's greater than what has happened before.

So I think it adequately displays, you know, what the people are thinking and their aspirations.

MARGARET WARNER: And so who are the people that we're seeing in the streets and who is leading them?

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: Well, one of the interesting things about this political uprising was that, you know, it seemed like for the longest time there were no leaders. So it was fairly spontaneous, as the 1990 uprising was. And there were even complaints by these protesters that the leaders were not actually taking part in the protests.

So that's why, you know, this became truly a second, you know, a second Jama Angolan (pH) which, in Nepalese, means basically people's movement.

Now there were some allegations that the Maoists were, you know, sort of inciting the crowd and so on. And there might have been some cases of that. But I don't think it's possible that, you know, it's purely a Maoist ploy to do this.

I think people, for the longest time, have felt that, you know, their rights have been violated, and especially they have intensified in the past one year.

So it's a very natural progression of it.

Are king's concessions enough for change?
MARGARET WARNER: So do you think, from people you've talked to back there, that the concessions that the king made last night are enough to meet the demands of most of those people in the street and that it will calm the protests?

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: Well, the protests have calmed down a little bit. But as your reporter showed, I think what he talked about and what some of the people said, you know, I was reading another report that said, you know, there were victory rallies which were at the same time protest rallies.

And so I think that is the kind of scenario we have right now, where people -- on the one hand, they're happy that the parliament has been restored, but on the other hand, they're not happy that -- you know, they want to push the king even further and they feel betrayed that this hasn't happened.

It's a mixed bag.

I think a lot of the protesters were satisfied, but then there were a lot of protesters who were actually hoping that something momentous would happen in terms of the monarchy.

And one of the cries that, you know, I kept reading about and you keep hearing about is "ganitor destor" (pH), which means "thief Gyanendra, leave the country."

So people were angry enough to utter that and a lot of people were actually, I think, hoping for a republic.

MARGARET WARNER: Now, even though the king didn't agree to leave power or to go, could the process he set in motion or agreed to have set in motion with the new parliament, and then they can elect members to a constituent assembly, maybe a new constitution, could that ultimately lead to him having to leave?

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: That's a possibility. That's a distinct possibility.

It all depends upon how the party leaders and the new prime minister, GP Koriala (pH), which your reporter mentioned, you know, how he handles this whole affair.

One of the ways in which this can move toward a constitution assembly is by the, I think, swiftness of it. And I think that's why some of the protesters you heard, they wanted more of an action immediately.

So that is distinctively a possibility. Although, whether the king would actually leave the country or or not is another question entirely.

But there is no doubt that the king has been defeated. I think you can see it on his face and in the announcement that he made. The first announcement that he made, which was on Friday, was that he just told the parties, OK, go ahead and, you know, appoint a prime minister.

And then on Saturday what happened was that 300,000 people took to the streets. I mean, they were -- you know, they were not fooled by this. You know, they wanted more. And then the king had to come back on Sunday again and say, OK, I am, you know, reinstating the parliament.

So the king definitely has been defeated. I think the king didn't have as much of an idea that it would go to this scale, because he was vacationing in -- you could say hiding out in Pokra (pH), which is another resort town, and hoping that maybe just a few bullets here and there would take care of the protesters. But that surely didn't happen.

Nepal's neighbors
MARGARET WARNER: Before we have to leave, let me just ask you about Nepal's two giant neighbors, India and China. India tried to help negotiate a deal here. China welcomed it.

What stake do they, the United States, the rest of the world have in what happens in this tiny kingdom?

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: Well, I think you don't want a Maoist dictatorship, you know, because I think that would destabilize the entire region. There's no doubt about it. Because, you know, then that could be a breeding ground for a lot of terrorist activities.

For India, India already has a communist movement called the Naxalites (pH), you know, and so Indians don't want, you know, that network to be strengthened further with the Nepalese Maoists.

For the United States, you know, I would like to make the appeal that I think for America the question of democracy should be the most important apart from the geopolitical importance, because, you know, America -- if America can go to a country like Iraq and invade it and talk about democracy there, what is happening in Nepal is that there's a spontaneous outburst of people, you know, who are fighting for democracy in their own land. There are no foreign powers involved in here. So it's...

MARGARET WARNER: Professor Upadhyay, I'm sorry. I hate to interrupt you, but we're at the end of the program and we have to leave it there.

Thank you so much.

SAMRAT UPADHYAY: OK. Thank you.

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Source.........
- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/textonly/focus2.html
 
Posted on 04-26-06 4:40 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i think he is one piece of s h i t instead of talking good about nepal talks bad he should be outlawed in nepal f u c k ing baun.......................
 
Posted on 04-26-06 5:02 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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This guy Samrat, personally I've never heard of him, but from what I gather off of the interview, is a complete idiot. First of all he clearly lacks the knowledge about what is causing the problem, and that is evident through the fact that he was stating something and giving PBS's reporter credit for that information. He was using their reporter as a source of reference. I don't know if you folks noticed it, but his answers were way too long and he never really answered the question coherently or answered it at all. How the heck did they find this clown out of all the people that they could have selected. His articulation was poor, and he kept cutting the interviewer off.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 5:37 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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you know

well yes aaa dooo
 
Posted on 04-26-06 6:08 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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M5
what happened to you man? You sound like a complete idiot, who cares whether you have heard about this guy or not? He just answered the questions the way he could in such a short period of time. Your brain is so small you can't even understand that? What does it make a difference if he quotes PBS reporter for resource, anybody in the US has to site the source for quotations for they can't see it through their eyes. For example, I saw the revolution through BBC, CNN and the Internet.

Subhachintak1
don't come here and show your jeolousy about others, moron.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 7:38 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i think he did a great joob..i 100% agree with him..
 
Posted on 04-26-06 7:59 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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HAHAHA.......I really had high regard for Samrat Upadhaya as a story and novel writer. But he has really betrayed my respect and faith. He is full of fu**ing Sh**. How dare he uses protest slogan chanted by angry mob in the street on the American Media. It was really surprising. He is a big fool who does not know what he is speaking. He was representing Nepal at PBS and made a big mockery of it. He simply betrayed all Nepali.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 8:12 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i think he did a great job..i 100% agree with him...indeed he is a well educated nepali and i am proud of him..
 
Posted on 04-26-06 8:13 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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i think he did a great job..i 100% agree with him...indeed he is a well educated nepali and i am proud of him..
 
Posted on 04-26-06 8:44 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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ramrai bhanya cha !
 
Posted on 04-26-06 8:57 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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k bhanya rahecha?????
 
Posted on 04-26-06 10:27 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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I think PBS chose the wrong person to ask about Nepal. In my perspective neither he left any good impressions of himself nor about Nepal. He does not know the ground reality of Nepal. All his comments were based on the internet news, which of course is not relevent to represent Nepal. Though, he tried.
 
Posted on 04-26-06 11:03 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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"You sound like a complete idiot, who cares whether you have heard about this guy or not? He just answered the questions the way he could in such a short period of time. Your brain is so small you can't even understand that?"

I would suggest that you listen to the interview over and over and over again till your attention deprived self realizes the fact that he wasn't answering the question. He was just beating around the bush and incorporating irrelevant things into the mix. With regard to the PBS reporter, if you were paying close attention you would realize that prior to the interview, there was a reporter going on and on about the Nepal situation. The interview took place right after it, and Mr. Samrat was using the PBS report to back up his commentary. There is no quesiton of Jealousy here mate, either you agree with someone's point of view or you don't, who are you to say anything?
 
Posted on 04-26-06 11:53 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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