When Frustration overflooded

As an aftermath of more than 5 months of undeclared economic blockade by our powerful neighboring nation, my Facebook wall flooded with "Congratulations" messages for our National Nepalese Football Team with their victory in the XII South Asian Games (in Football). The victory was special to all the Nepalese not because they won the Indian squad, but because they defeated them. I realized a thin demarcation between winning and defeating after this situation.

Now, I need to mention that the triumph was against the blockade we (Nepalese) have been facing since September.

We Nepalese were always crazy for football but I had never seen such craze over winning merely a match in the whole tournament. While the host nation, India, bagged 188 gold medals in overall tournament, Nepalese were happy with merely 3 gold medals with the most important one being the victorious 2-1 win in the Football final with India.

What added fuel to the fire was that the Nepalese National Anthem was cut-off in the middle and the Nepalese player continued it with dignity. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gzVrFPqhE)

This achievement was against the fury Nepalese have been facing since past 5 months. The only good news in Nepal after the earthquake strike in April 2015. The frustration they are experiencing because of shortage of cooking fuel and gas, the torment of standing in queue for 3 days for merely half cylinder of gas, the agony against the black market, the outrage against the price hike in everything, the suffering against everything that is going on in the small land-locked country, the stress people are facing because their giant neighbor has imposed a blockade after the destructive earthquake recently hit the country. While, the earthquake pushed back the country's development 10 years back, this undeclared blockade has taken us back to the stone-age. There's more than 14 hours of power cut-off, people use fossil fuel for cooking and there has been medical supplies shortage, students have been deprived of going to schools because the school bus have no fuel and what more. 

Taxis in Kathmandu in queue for fuel  (Source:the guardian website)

People wait for refilling of the cooking gas cylinder (Source:The Economist webpage)

People are compelled for dangerous journey because they have no choice.

Nepalese are generally known to be patient, silent and generous. However, they are also known for their bravery as the "Gorkhas". Now, after all these years, I can't say the same thing about the bravery but despite the chaos going on in the country, I saw Nepalese united again. Every one seemed to be happy for their victory. Friends from all over the world, no matter where they were, expressed their happiness over this accomplishment. 

I still have belief that we are together; be it just in Facebook status. 

Nepalese Team welcomed in Capital city (Source: ekantipur)