Q. How do you feel about the Indian blockade?

A. Everyone knows it is against the international law and conventions including the right of unhindered access to sea for the landlocked countries. Well I would not dwell much on this legal issue. You see, the world has always been for the stronger and the weak have suffered in every period until they fight back and establish their rights to exist. When we Nepalese say the Indian blockade is too inhuman and a crime against humanity, the good people of all over the world will agree to our views. However the perpetrator will not take into account the judicious views and the universal values until and unless it is duly punished. The Indian blockade is in fact a war against the Nepalese people and a crime against humanity. This blockade is meant to destroy our life, economy, our Himalayan culture and whatever we possess. To put it in a nut shell, this British born India which is savage and expansionist from its inception and has been targeting Nepal to destroy it with the connivance of Great Britain, which had handed over all its existing infrastructures of coercion, suppression and exploitation and expansion to its newly born Indian imperialism.  So there is no surprise that this British born Indian rulers followed the legacy of its creator which was to avenge Nepal and to keep Nepal down, poor, weak and within its bounds. Hitherto all the Indian rulers followed the British policy towards Nepal without any reservation and they were as immoral as their creator.

You can take the so called Tripatriate agreement “among the government of the United Kingdom, the government of the Domination of India and the government of Nepal” that facilitated both Britain and its born  neo-imperialist India to recruit Nepalese in their army. Prior to this no agreement ever existed between Nepal and Britain to recruit Nepalese in the British army. However, the British recruited Nepali youths in their army on the basis of the so called agreement with the consecutive Rana rulers - as the British recruitment of the Nepalese was not “embodied in any treaty” (Nepal: international perspective Pg 181). Thus the Tripartite agreement is nothing but a cunning and deceitful conspiracy of Britain to continue its recruitment and colonize Nepal jointly with its born neo imperialist India. I don’t know how other Allied Powers of World War II feel about Britain punishing Nepal against the backdrop of more than half a million Nepalese fighting in Asia, Europe and Middle-East for the Allied cause under the British command in the most difficult fronts of the World War II. Can they forget that the Nepalese army played a pivotal role to stop the advancing Japanese troops in Burma and Kohima of the kingdom of Nagas? It will be relevant to mention here that during World War I “more than 2 lakhs or 45% of the total adult male population of the martial classes served in the war in combatant units” (E.Vansittart, Gurkha, handbook for the Indian army pg. 174-77)

Well I will come back now to the theme of the crime of India being angry with Nepal currently. The exact approximation of death caused by this blockade may never be known, because the death toll is very high in the remote areas of the Himalayas compared to the hill areas and the cities. Beside the media which are largely working for Indian interests have supressed this information and the government too doesn’t want the exact figures of the death to be known to the world. Here there is a unique convergence of perpetrator India and the Nepalese government as both doesn’t want to be seen by the world as they are. India - as a criminal state and the Nepalese government most irresponsible to the people rather conspiring to conceal the ugly Indian aggression. Though this blockade is not new, this is the third blockade imposed by the so called India. However this ongoing blockade is very serious and grave. It has multiple designs, including to split Nepal and this design was hatched from the day India was born.   Anyway this Indian blockade has taught us many lessons and presented the exact position of our sovereignty and also the true picture of this unjust world where there is no other values, ideology and the rule except might is right.  

Q. What do you mean by exact position of the country?

A. It is a hard reality that we are too weak and poor and from centuries we have been living a life of humiliation and shame. The Indian imperialism is preying on us and of course the British empire is always supporting this. You know that the Nepalese are being recruited in the British and Indian Army and those in the foreign army have to fight for the cause of these two imperialists. Don’t you think it’s a big shame for a sovereign country to allow its citizen to be recruited for others cause right from its soil? How a sovereign nation can allow foreign recruitment centers in its soil and accept quietly the demographic invasion which is about to reduce the Nepalese to minority in their own home land being displaced by the barbarians that are devoid of human feelings. Delhi has polarised this stock of people mostly impoverished but controlled by criminals and feudal in the name of Madheshi and is driving them against the Nepalese people of Tarai, hills and mountains. This barbarian agenda is for the destruction of the people of the hills and Himalayas whom they accuse as Khas. But this so called Indians and their rulers seem to have very little knowledge of themselves. I want to ask them who are these four thousand people marked as the ruling elites of India and what is the percentage of Khas Aryan among this so called ruling elites? Wasn’t Chandra Gupta Maurya the ruler of Magadh Khas Aryan or Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of Kashmir whose great grandfather a Khas Brahmin priest migrated to UP’s (Oudh) Lucknow to be employed in the British service? It seems that crime and pride of the power has blurred their vision irrespective of the fact that the people living under the Indian Raj are poorest in the world and most backward among the people of the world, if even it has been made a Nuclear power by violating the very conditions of Nuclear suppliers group but to proliferate nuclear weapons in South Asia. This so called Indian people as columnist Adrian Levy writes in an article “India’s nuclear industry pours its waste into a river of death and disease”, which exclusively deals on the wide spread misfortune of the local people who are using the water of the rivers heavily contaminated with Alpha radiation with levels 132% higher than safe limits set by World Health Organization. Citing one of these Alpha radiation contaminated river Subarnarekha he writes “scientists say nuclear workers, village residents and children living near mines and factories are falling ill after persistent exposure to unsafe radiation.” India which “scores low on N-security” has signed agreements to build plants of nuclear reactors with some of the Western countries and has recently entered into an accord to build 12 Russian Nuclear reactors at two sites with Russia which Mr Narendra Modhi Prime Minister of India, has referred as a “power” which has always stood beside India and that “if one country stood by India through good times and bad times then it is Russia.” (Indo-Assian News service, Moscow, Dec 25 2015). Now the major concern being raised in various countries especially among India’s neighbours who are every time bullied by nuclearized burly India in the pretext of its national security, is about the Indian threat  looming large on their sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity in the context of the Indian design for a greater India that claims Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan and the Northern Himalayan region being its part from the ancient time that is from the days of King Bharat the ancestor of Rama the King of Ayudhoya a tiny village state who married Sita a princess of Janakpur (Nepal) which was also a small state – and India brazenly defying the international law and UN conventions.

Currently Nepal is bearing the brunt of the Indian blockade and is facing a serious humanitarian crisis apart from being subjected to naked Indian interference which strives to split and destroy Nepal in a deceitful way. Its modus operandi is not based on bravery rather on deceit in combination with British Kautilyan stratagem.

Q. Do you think India’s evil venture emanates from Nepal’s isolation and bad governance?

A. Yes Nepal was being isolated but during this great earthquake almost all the countries of the world wanted to help Nepal. The US led West, Asians including China, Middle East countries and countries from very far came to help Nepal. You must remember that some of the rescue teams lost their members. Four US pilots lost their lives during a rescue operation. Our heart always goes for them. So we don’t feel we are isolated even during this blockade, we have the support of the international community of the entire Asian and Western countries and the international community. But the tragedy is that our so called governance is not prepared to take the help but is veering around the Indian game which will only embolden the Indian strangulation of Nepal. During the earthquake, China, US, Japan, Korea the entire Western and Asian countries pledged huge monetary help for reconstruction of earthquake devastated regions and the historical and cultural sites of great importance. According to a press report immediately after the Indian blockade China repeatedly pledged to help Nepal to meet its requirements. Envoy of leading Western powers inquired the then Prime Minister Sushil Koirala about Nepal’s requirements as this great nation was perhaps the first country to officially use the word Indian Blockade of Nepal in its advisory to its outbound citizens, Koirala kept mum and shied away, perhaps he thought that if he accepts the offer India will be angry with him. There are many other examples which indicate that the Nepal government not only failed to address the problems of the earthquake victims but even shied away from receiving help from friendly countries. It was a great shame that during the early days of the earthquake even the US and Chinese helicopters carrying medical teams were not allowed to land at the Tribhuvan International Airport on the pretext that there is “no space”. So the helicopters of both US and China had to operate from their own place. All we know what has happened in Nepal’s only International Airport, but even Pokhara Airport was under the seize of the Indian army and they were breaching the law of this country and moving wherever they want. However, this came to an end only after simmering opposition of the Nepalese security wing and officials that are usually subdued against the backdrop of the submissive Nepalese government.

 Q. you seem to be going out of the issue of the Indian blockade which is the main theme of this interview.

A. I am veering around it. I am just telling the background of our problems and about the people outside our territory with whom we have to deal. But you should not forget that those people living in the Nepalese territory which Nepal ceded to Britain in 1816 and again occupied by India in 1947, are our people. So in my previous articles of years back I have repeatedly pointed out that over 15 million Nepalese people are living under Indian occupation and their repeated attempts for their liberation and to come back to their mother land Nepal has been brutally supressed by the Indian imperialists. Now I would like to draw attention of the readers to this India harboured so called Madeshi stir. We know their so called agitation is violent and criminal in nature. Their so called leaders openly call their armed followers to kill the police officials and burn the government buildings and kill everyone who come in their way. Watching them in the TV reminds one of the most notorious extremist organization. Since these Madheshi agitators is backed by India, the responsible countries abstained from condemning India directly as some observers felt, “being unable to discard the so called democratic tag India has glued in its head.” However their media strongly oppose the intolerance of the Indian governance and criminalized society which takes rape and murder as a normal phenomenon. Perhaps they also dislike Narendra Modi’s attempt to hoist his choice by polarising the so called Indian Nationalism in their soil. Well it is all leading towards trouble, we feel for the civilized Western people who has warm feelings for Nepalese and are fond of Nepalese diaspora who are humble and abiding to the rule and law of their country.

Q. Why are you opposed to both Britain and India?

A. Because both of these two countries have some common agenda on Nepal. I mostly blame Britain for trying to destroy Nepal. It is they who formed the Nepal policy of so called India. The entire educated group of the so called Indian freedom fighters were their favourites. Nehru, Patel and their “freedom fighter” team were very close to British Viceroy Lord Mount Batten and his wife a powerful lady who reigned on the viceroy preferred Nehru to be the Prime Minister of India, which many historian believed was in reality his wife’s choice. Mathma Gandhi the real freedom fighter for the people of south Asia was disliked by the then British rulers and Gandhi too didn’t accept the so called independence of India. This saintly figure hated both the master and the protégé clans to whom Britain bestowed upon its imperialism. When Mount Batten was declaring the “establishment of India” and fireworks were in massive display in Delhi, Mathma Gandhi confined himself in a dark room and observed the black day which Nehru’s team called the day of Independence. 

Now I would like to remind the readers of some historical episodes which brought Britain and Nepal eye to eye resulting in a nearly two years of war (1814-1816). This war with Britain ended with the treaty of Sughauli which historians say was an outcome of the British trick and deceit. This led to the annexation of half of our territory by British imperialism. But still Britain found Nepal strong enough to go for another confrontation. Thus the British game was to weaken Nepal to the extent that it will never rise again. The British I believe, have really avenged and are still avenging. They perhaps are still haunted by the memory of it being humble and humiliated by the Nepalese in the war. With its creation of India, British used its neo imperialism to fully avenge us. This was displayed when Britain became the only country to justify the Indian blockade on Nepal. Though after a week or so London gave the impression that it backtracked from its early support to the Indian blockade. We should remember that the British are behind every Indian move. In the early days of the creation of India they virtually made and guided each and every Indian’s Nepal policy.  You can take the so called tripartite agreement of 1947 which provided opportunity to both Britain and India to recruit Nepalese in their army. In reality, the Suguali Treaty had not facilitated for such recruitment, but the British recruited the Nepalese quietly and surreptitiously. Jawaharlal Nehru was opposed to recruitment of the Nepalese in the British army until he became the torch bearer of the British imperialism in South Asia. Nehru wrote in 1933 in his book Glimpses of world history, “the brave and warlike people of Nepal- the Gurkhas are enrolled in the British army in India and are used to keep down Indians.” Nehru wrote that Dehra Dun, Kumaun and Naini Tal is a part of Nepal. Regarding this he writes “a little before the last Maratha war, the British had a war with Nepal from 1814 to 1816. They had great difficulties in the mountains, but they won in the end, and this district of Dehra Dun, where I sit in prison writing this letter, and Kumaun and Naini Tal came under British rule.” He further writes “the brave and war like people of Nepal-the Gurkhas- are enrolled in the British army in India and are used to keep down Indians.”

But then after Nehru was made Prime Minister of British occupied territory of South Asia which London named India to eliminate the identity and existence of those powerful South Asian nations that fought well with the British empire before falling to it. It is an irony that the identity and the sovereignty of these great people of South Asia like Marathas, Shiaks, Tamils, Teligs, Muslims, Bengalis, Nagas etc… were eliminated and they were made Indians in 1947 at high cost killing millions of people who opposed the formation of the Indian union. Even the Indian constitution endorsed by merely 70% of the unelected members of the constitution assembly was not acceptable to the majority of the people but they were suppressed and butchered. From 1947 to this present day of 2016 the Indian governance has killed more people than the British had to in their 300 years rule.

Q. learning lesson from the Indian blockade and the position of the sovereignty; don’t you think we are a fully sovereign nation?

A. The first and foremost lesson is that we Nepalese have been made so weak and poor that we Nepalese are struggling for our bare survival. So this newly born India has turned into the number one enemy of Nepal and is worse than its creator for Nepal. Anna Hazara a Ghandhian was right when he said “the white has gone and black has come to rule on us.”

Today the entire world knows that the Indian blockade is unjust and a violation of international law but what can they do? Since the government in Nepal is more sensitive to so called Indian image than to the suffering of the Nepalese people. When the people were awakening for the resurgence of Nepalese nationalism and prepared to confront the Indian onslaught by displaying their peoples power and right to exist, the government virtually cheated the people by telling them every now and then that the blockade of India will end “tomorrow or the day after tomorrow” but this has never come. By lying to the people the government was trying give a catharsis to the rising rage and the fire of the Nepalese people against the Indian blockade and interference. This is a glaring testimony of the condominium of the Indian imperialism and its Nepalese puppets. Both of these are apprehensive of the resurgence of Nepalese patriotism. India avoiding confrontation with the resurgent Nepalese peoples power and its puppets equally apprehensive of being swept away by the rise of the people. But what we have been made now? Are we Nepalese back to the state which every patriot will think of them “as partly scattered, partly stupid people possessed of narrow-minded individualism with no public spirit.”

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