Time to End Gurkha Plights
Gopal Siwakoti 'Chintan' ------------------------------------------- To many outsiders in the globe, the Gurkhas are better known after Mt. Everest than this tiny country, Nepal. The reason we all know Gurkhas fought for the biggest colonial power in the human history -- the Great Britain (may come down to a smaller Britain if the Scottish votes for independence this week!). They are also known for their involvement in all the big wars that Britain and the allied powers won -- although wars are bad but victories are good! So the Gurkhas are the glory of not the lost the wars but military victories. I never knew where the Gurkha bravery comes from. When I see them around as my neighbours, brothers, uncles and friends -- they are simply the simpler people of the ethnic-indigenous communities of Nepal. Most of them, as a result of State exclusions of socio-cultural discriminations and the practice of untouchability over the few centuri