‘A People War’ and a Tea Party

On Saturday, when Kunda Dixit was launching the book ‘A People War’, a compilation of pictures of the decade long war, prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala threw a historical tea party to the leaders of political parties. Leaders of twenty-five parties were sipping tea from the same kettle. While readers from all walks of life were looking at pictures of the bygone days, leaders were looking for ways to a new Nepal.

Readers were tearfully remembering those days of violence, and the leaders were seriously contemplating about the form of a new government. The history is being once again remembered and the leaders are talking seriously on the form of a new government. It is a good omen.

With a painful decade-long violence at the backdrop, we have to pave way to a prosperous future. I request the leaders to see those pictures so that they would not forget the dreams of the martyrs. It would be better if they organize a program to see those pictures so as to remember the history together. This would further integrate them.