BP, Mahendra and history

King Mahendra cleverly took up the plans of action prepared by BP Koirala and fulfilled some of them.

I heard scholars trying to figure out the nature of the creatively productive years that the important political leader BP Koirala had to lose in prison in the panel discussion at the BP Koirala literary festival on September 11 in Kathmandu. It turns out that events do not follow a pattern that we imagine or recall at one point of time. I find this topic eloquent, but as said by poet TS Eliot in his poem “Gerontion”, “History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors”, it is difficult to say what an individual lost or gained in history. This is a subject of discussion.