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GEOPOLITICS AND PETROL : A MOB COMMENTARY

FROM SALIL SUBEDI’S FACEBOOK
Normal life – halted.
Schools and colleges – halted.
Hospital critical services – halted.
Cooking gas supply – halted.
Petrol, diesel, kerosene supply – halted.
Daily Wage work – halted.
Business as usual – halted.
Constitution amendment – halted.
Trade – halted.
Education – halted.
Earthquake relief – halted.
Empty streets
Empty spaces
Empty fuel tanks
Empty gas cylinders
Empty classrooms
Empty pages
Empty answers
Waiting for answers
Waiting for assurances
Waiting for change
Waiting for supplies
Waiting for…
Waiting for what?
Will the act of waiting become our
favorite past time?
Or will our strength
strengthen out of these desperate times?
Since the streets are vacant. Since the presence of government is invisible. Since the mass of people who are suffering from the crisis remain elusive. Since the actual problem – that in the constitution – that needs to be addressed and amended are stacked away. Since the political parties are busy voting for the titles of the chair. Since the paradox that a bullying government of a friendly neighboring country India is taking leverage of Nepali government’s own self-created weaknesses. Since there is the rotten smell of hegemony and failed leadership in the air. Since not one visionary leader and party could stand up all these years to muster pragmatic vision and strength to tackle national and regional politics. Since it has become obvious many of these leaders were long sold-out to higher powers. Since it is clear that they are cheap dream sellers promising to turn Nepal into Singapore and Switzerland within few years.
Since the crucial issues of the Minorities, Dalits, Women, Madhesis, Tharus, Indigenous and ethnic groups are overshadowed by something else. Since the mainstream media, television serials and cultural producers have turned deaf and blind to acknowledge cultural sensibilities while addressing ethnic groups and minorities; and rather make fun of their language, intonation, cultural practices.
Since we are made to wait and wait for the answer from somewhere. Since we are gradually getting used to waiting, waiting and fucking waiting! Since the most important thing of all – Education – itself is under a big threat… What else can one do but to go out and intervene on these ‘waiting and waiting spaces’ physically. What else can one do but to ’embody body and being’ to the psychology of the public spaces. The public spaces that speaks a lot – the living story of our times!
I might as well sit around doing something else, but I might as well be doing this Mob Art – gather energy, call up friends, carry simple props, and Boom! Make it happen!! Keep looking out for more interventions in this series.
And if you would like to do something similar, please don’t even take a second thought – just go out and do it!! An individual or a group, anything works for this public art action! We need to be visible on the streets now people!!
I am curating a massive archive of how the artists and the public from different professions are creatively reacting to this current crisis. Want to be a part of it? Want me and other writers, researchers to discuss your work at public and academic level? Inbox me selected photographs of your performance or action or words with a short writing with two points –
1. What did you do?
2. What was your experience while doing it?
Meanwhile, here are my works updated frequently on this series. I have submitted some of these works to an ongoing MOOC course on public art too. It’s going global folks!#FullPower
Photographs by Shiva Rijal. I thank him for his impromptu “yes” to record this Mob workout on photographs! Special Thanks to Min Magar for short bicycle transport. #Booom!!
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चोभार गल्छी विवाद के हो ? भिडियो

काठमाडौंको चोभार गल्छी आसपासबाट गेग्रान तथा ढुंगा हटाउने सरकारी योजना विवादमा परेको छ।
काठमाडौं उपत्यकालाई डुबानबाट जोगाउन राष्ट्रिय विपद् जोखिम न्यूनीकरण तथा व्यवस्थापन प्राधिकरणले सहरी विकास मन्त्रालयसँग मिलेर ढुंगा हटाउने तयारी गरे पनि स्थानीयको विरोधपछि प्रक्रिया अघि बढ्न सकेको छैन।

सहरी विकास मन्त्रालयले नेपाली सेनाको सहयोगमा चोभार गल्छी सफा गर्ने योजना बनाएको थियो। तर कीर्तिपुर र खोकनावासी आन्दोलित बनेका छन्।

उनीहरूले गल्छीको प्राकृतिक संरचना र ऐतिहासिक सम्पदा संकटमा पर्ने तर्क गर्दै विरोध जनाइरहेका छन्। सम्पदा अभियन्ताहरूले चोभार गल्छीमाथिको पुलमा ब्यानर टाँगेर विरोध जनाएका छन्।
स्थानीयले गल्छीलाई ‘न्हुछिकाप’ भनेर चिन्ने गर्छन्।

गत वर्ष मनसुनको समयमा असोज १०–१३ गतेको भारी वर्षाले बागमती, विष्णुमती, र नख्खु खोलाका किनार क्षेत्रहरू डुबानमा परेका थिए।
सो घटनालाई दृष्टिगत गर्दै चोभार गल्छी साँघुरो भएको र ठूला ढुंगाले पानीको बहाव रोक्ने भन्दै सफा गर्ने तर्क गरिएको हो।
तर स्थानीयको कडा विरोधका कारण योजना अहिले स्थगित छ।



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मिस नेपाल २०२५ को आवेदन खुल्ला

मिस नेपाल २०२५ का लागि आवेदन खुल्ला गरिएको छ । आयोजक संस्था हिडन खुल्लयो वर्षबाट ‘मिस कोस्मो’को उपाधि थप गरिएको जानकारी गराउँदै आवेदन खुल्ला गरेको हो । सहभागी हुन चाहनेले असार २६ गतेसम्म आवेदन दिन सक्नेछ्न्।
मिस नेपालको फिनाले भदौ १४ मा गोदावरीस्थित सनराइज कन्भेन्सन सेन्टरमा सम्पन्न हुनेछ । यो वर्ष प्रतियोगिताबाट चार विजेता घोषणा गरिनेछन् ।
मिस नेपाल वर्ल्ड, मिस नेपाल इन्टरनेस्नल, मिस नेपाल अर्थ र थप गरिएको मिस नेपाल कोस्मो रहेको छ । ‘मिस नेपाल कोस्मो’को उपाधि जित्नेले भियतनाममा हुने ‘मिस कस्मो’मा सहभागी हुन पाउनेछन् ।
आयोजक संस्था मिस नेपाल २०२५ को खोजीका लागि देशका विभिन्न शहरमा पुग्नेछ । त्यसैगरी, अन्तिम अडिसन २८ गते काठमाडौं मा हुनेछ्। छनोट सुन्दरीहरुले ग्रान्ड फिनालेका लागि ग्रुमिङ तथा विशेष प्रशिक्षण प्राप्त गर्नेछन् ।
हिडन ट्रेजरका निर्देशक सुवर्ण बहादुर क्षेत्री विगतका उपलब्धिमा टेक्दै सुनौलो भविष्यतर्फ मिस नेपाल अगाडि बढेको धारणा राखे।









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ग्वार्को ओभरपास सञ्चालनमा (भिडियो)

ग्वार्को ओभरपास अब सञ्चालनमा आएको छ। प्रधानमन्त्री केपी शर्मा ओलीले शुक्रबार उद्घाटन गरेसँगै सवारीसाधन चल्न थालेको हो।
२०७८ फागुनमा थालिएको निर्माण १७ करोड ६ लाख रुपैयाँमा ठेक्का दिइएको थियो। म्याद पटक–पटक थपिँदै पुस १० गतेदेखि जरिवानासहित निर्माण कम्पनीलाई काममा लगाइएको थियो।
चार लेनको यो ओभरपासमा कोटेश्वरतर्फ ३२० मिटर र सातदोबाटोतर्फ १८५ मिटरको र्याम्प बनाइएको छ, जसको चौडाइ १०.२ मिटर छ।
सातदोबाटो र कोटेश्वर गन्तव्यका सवारीले ओभरपास प्रयोग गर्नेछन् भने मंगलबजार–इमाडोलतर्फका सवारी साधन तलको बाटो प्रयोग गर्नेछन्।
यसबाट ट्राफिक जाम न्युनिकरणमा मद्दत पुग्ने अपेक्षा गरिएको छ।





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