Too close to the bone

Perhaps there's more truth in the song than what politicians want us to believe.

A song can usually awaken the inner conscience of a person because it has the added element of melody. It tends to touch humans at a much deeper level than dry words. And just so, a song titled ‘Pir’ by Prakash Saput seems to have resonated with Nepalis right across the country, perhaps because there's more truth in the song than the narrative politicians would want us to believe. The video may seem to target a particular political group, but in reality, it reflects the failures of the political actors. A story of Nepalis in general, enduring untold hardships in all areas of life while our representatives sail through life, by no means falls into the genre of fiction writing.