Lolas, Media and Rights ( by shashikala rai)

By the time Holi will hit Ktm,I won’t be around! Thank God! Here’s a write up about it that i have to share.
Media persons are supposed to vicariously speak for general people. I had once smsed an FM show “Jump start” to speak on how kathmanduites trouble girls by hitting lolas a month before actual Holi. But I was taken aback, instead of calling it a nuisance and requesting for its eradication, the male presenter remarked that it was a norm that he too follows religiously and nothing can be done. I was even more flagrant when I heard an FM show “Voice of Nepal” in which advocacy for human rights abounds and a message of zero tolerance is given. The same presenter professed adherence to human rights, their protection and proper conviction to perpetrators. Does violation of rights occur only when it is related to political issues like decade long insurgency? Isn’t it a right, not to be physically assaulted by lolas? The pleasure of hitting lolas costs at the extreme impairment of sight and hearing and mostly unexpected pain. Be it a gruesome murder by Nepal army or Maoists, verbal abuse at workplace or innocent girls hit by men with lolas. A right is a right and violation occurs no matter who does it.
Mr. presenter, since it will take a couple of more years to indemnify the victims of insurgency, why don’t we try protecting rights that have eluded your thoughts, for start like discouraging social nuisance?
AN ARTICLE BY
SHASHI KALA RAI

 

YOUR EYES

Dark black your eyes,
Makes me fall in them.
I’m drawn,
Every moment i gaze them.

Alluring eyes when
Enclose my image,
Invade my heart.
As it captures me,
slowly & slowly
I keep sinking and,
I wish i never
Come out of them.

Intoxicated deeply, madly me;
Your eyes and my consciousness,
Reciprocate eachother
Very strongly.
As Your eyes draw me,
I get unconscious.

Oh me, deeply drawn in you;
Deep inside your eyes,
My shadows there,
searching its way to your heart.

Can you lead me ???