Addressing amnesia in Nepal

In Nepal, political parties are plunging headlong into a culture of post-truth.

This year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, too brought mails and messages of friends from Nepal and abroad. Browsing through them the theme of amnesia struck me once again. But no plays were staged and no musicals were performed on this day this year. Sabine Lehmann of Hotel Vajra, for example, did not direct or perform any play on the Holocaust Remembrance Day at her Studio 7, Naga Theatre. It is all because of the menace of Covid-19. But I realised this year amnesia has assumed greater meaning; it has come with more challenges than any other time in the past.