Good thing E-Day has come and gone. With the broken limbs, fractured skulls, perforated abdomen and dislocated hips this campaign inflicted on party faithful across the political spectrum, it has been a hospital bharo karyakram. Nursing homes throughout the land have no room for normal patients.
Strange, because Nepal has also got the highest per capita number of elections observers observing our elections. Besides the farangs we also have our national ones with rhyming acronyms like GEOC and NEOC. Then there is DEAN and NEMA, which are fairly wholesome acronyms compared with the ngos we already have: INSECT, HERPES and FUCKOFEN. But, as is customary in Nepal, the election monitoring groups have already bifurcated, and one hears there are now NEOC (Krantikari) and NEOC (Prajatnatrik).
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We had indelible ink donated by the Koreans, the ballot boxes from Japan, and the Tiang Xian multifunction pad from the People's Republic of China (email: shuli58@163.com).
One suggestion to the EC for the next time round, please also spell out the names of the parties besides their symbols. Not everyone in Nepal is illiterate, you know. It wasn't just the Ass who was flummoxed by the pink and blue ballot papers on Thursday. It was a toss-up between Duck and Pigeon, but now it can be told that the donkey voted for Duck.
And in samanupatik, the Ass's swastika went to Radio of Takashi Miyahara because under him one can be sure that Nepal will have a shinkansen between Kathmandu and Pokhara, whereas the Fearsome One just wants a chhoti line to Lumbini.
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It's not just the Indians who command our destiny. The royal palace has been known in the past to slip in a few karods here and there to like-minded Indian politicos at their election time. Now it looks like the Indians are returning the favour. Laloo Prasad has helped out a fellow Yadav in our own tarai, and Bijay the Defector apparently crossed over recently to collect his own five million smackeroos.