(Courtesy: el Mariachi)
Did you read that Nepal Airlines used a picture of Machu Picchu, the famous Inca ruin in Peru, to promote the airline and tourism in Nepal? The Palace must have actually encouraged dropping the “R” in RNAC.
Don’t we have Mount Everest and hundreds of other peaks right here in our back yard? Its not like its HARD to get a picture of a mountain in Nepal. You can’t help but take a picture without a home-grown Himalayan mountain getting in the way.
How did the whole thing happen? Did the peon assigned by the RNAC PR guy accidentally stumble into the Peruvian guy’s house who moonlights as a salsa instructor in Babar Mahal Revisited but has a day job as a photographer? Did the Peruvian salsa instructor simply give the peon a picture of Macha Picchu because those Peruvians just love a good practical joke?
Uh, oh, I feel a high-level commission coming.
And has anyone read what Incas did to their prisoners? They would make Puspa “Chunkmuffin” Dahal and Baburam “Hatchet Face” Bhattarai look like saints. Speaking of which I have to ask: Is shampoo against Maoist doctrine? With their greasy hair and faces, shouldn’t we give the Maoists the Oil Portfolio and have them help the Nepal Oil Corporation get out of debt?
The Machu Picchu incident has to be Exhibit number 80 on why you need to privatize that airline.
Brace yourself for we had the Shahs give us the “Zone of Peace” and now we get the Maoist version of whacky foreign policy, drum rooolll please - Panchsheel (so that’s what Gajurel was doing in jail). Apparently, the whole policy is now comprised of two sentences repeated over and over again – “We hate Moriarty. If it wasn’t for him, we’d have a republic.”
Have you noticed that our high-minded media and activists have replaced the word “democracy” and “republic” by “gadatantra” and “loktantra” – even when they are writing in English (oh dear, democracy is soooooo Janaandolan I and its so boringly Western.).
What I don’t understand is why Ambassador Moriarty gets a bad rap when all he’s done is think straight. The reason just may be that Americans (brace yourself now) actually don’t go around and crush someone that bad mouths them. Call it my nah, nah, nah, ne nah nah theory of anti-Americanism.
Remember when our parliament wanted to pass a resolution condemning the Thai coup? Next thing you know, there’s a letter from the Ambassador from Thailand threatening to take some heads off with no questions asked. You don’t hear any comments from the Maoists, our media and “activists” railing on the Chinese do you? The Russians? No high-falutin morality on Tibet or commentary on rollbacks on democracy by Putin?
Why? Because they might just get an answer that might prevent them from attending the French Ambassador’s next cocktail party.
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