New Years, praxis and hope

It is natural to feel that we are entering the new calendrical times with greater uncertainties.

We in Nepal celebrate several New Years that represent our political, aesthetic, utopic and pragmatic consciousness. We communicate with the worldly and domestic events that affect our lives. Calendrical years represent our cosmogonic consciousness as they measure the rhythms of earth and the heavens. This subject struck me recently when I was working on a theme of Nepali history both in terms of abstract and practical concepts. I am increasingly getting convinced that we will not understand the nature of our history, culture, and in later times, our politics if we fail to understand the phenomenon of multiple years that we live with in this country.