arcade
Raja Gaja
(written in context of recent pro monarchist protest on March 28, 2025 )
Old men with power and young men with hatred. A powerful combo.
Its the different place but same story, people who are stolen all of their power convincing people who have no power that their power is going to be stolen by other people who have no power. See this through one more time.
Yes the problems are real. Leaders are caught up on their own greed. Citizens are caught up on their own fight for meeting the ends meet. Students are politicised on the same rootless ideologies. Yes, the very system that took 18,000 lives to establish is malfunctioning. Yes, there are problems in our democracy and yes, we have a big hole in our bureaucracy. Yes every leader lies everywhere and yes even the same leader you are choosing as a king lied to you.
Marx would be laughing at the communists, Birendra would be laughing at the monarchists.
And me, i would be laughing at the jokers cosplaying leaders.
what should we want as a solution?
Is what we saw today the solution, not at all in no way. Was what we saw in the maoist insurgence the solution, no it wasnt either. No demonstration will take us anywhere. No bloodbath will take us anywhere. The citizens are lost. They have been lost. I have been lost. We have been lost.
If you think writing about this situation while being abroad is hypocrisy, then make me a hypocrite.
Ralpha: Nepal's Original Rebels Without a Cause or Too Many To Count
It happened in 2024 BS (mid 1960s. As explained by poet, Manjul (poet), the word Ralpha does not have any meaning. Ralpha was initially influenced by the contemporary trends of nihilism and existentialism and partially influenced by Nietzsche’s proclamation that “God is Dead.” Ralpha was also influenced by Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre.
If the Beats had Kerouac and Ginsberg, Ralpha had Dharma Raj Thapa, Govinda Bahadur Gotame, and Parijat. They weren’t just writing poems or painting political slogans on walls; they were reimagining what it meant to be Nepali in a rapidly changing world. Their works carried a raw, untamed energy – part folk, part existential crisis, part underground revolution.
Stylistically, Ralpha was inspired by global literary rebels – the existentialists of France, the progressive poetry of South Asia, and even the hippie countercultures that trickled into Kathmandu through the hash-fueled hippie trails. But it was uniquely Nepali in the way it interrogated caste, class, feudalism, and monarchy with a sharp, poetic edge.
Their art subtly (and sometimes blatantly) mocked the pomp of the kings and the hypocrisy of nationalism. Their poetry, plays, and songs spoke of the struggles of the working class, the poor, the outcasts. It was political, even when it wasn’t trying to be.
The Monks Lent Me Enough Money To Buy A Boat, I Hereby Have Paid The Debt With Interest
Apollo
Pueblo
Backroom 2
Backroom 1
O2 | CONCEPT NOTHING |
Accidental. Incidental. Yet Pivotal
Accidental Incidental.
This journey was like that. Coming to Germany was certainly incidental if not accidental. It was not on the script. Yet at 19 I took a chance. the freedom that i was looking for, independence that i was craving, i had to move out.
It’s chaos with meaning.
Messy magic.
Like life’s bloopers that became plot twists.
म शुन्यमा शुन्य सरि हराए
Ma śun’yamā śun’ya sari harā’ē
