Prakash Bom
His writings are focused on socio-political and economic issues of South Asia. He has written extensively on the federalism in regard to the current political movements of Nepal.
His writings are also published on American Chronicle, California Chronicle....
He is affiliated with
KFA: Krishnamurti Foundation USA,
KFI: Krishnamurti Foundation India
International Humanist and Ethical Union
Secular Humanist Association of New York
KSCN: Krishnamurti Study Center Nepal
Nepal Civil Society
Nepal Humanist Association
His personal thoughts are secular humanist and his writings are social critique.
As a deconstructionist he has endorsed federal republic democratic political system for Nepal to be established under the multi-party Parliamentary Democracy after the historic National Constituent Assembly elections.
In his opinion, the integrity of a nation depends on the prosperity not solely granted with the grace of ruling elites from the central control of the government mechanism but rendered with the dignity of its people whose right and liberty to participate in the nation building processes at the local level of governance is guaranteed under the federal democratic constitution of a republic nation.
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Articles by Prakash Bom
November 10, 2009
International community has recognized that a national unity government for Nepal is desirable at this point in order to drafting a new constitution and managing Maoist combatants. However, a national unity government does not necessarily mean Maoist or UML or NC led government.
Perhaps under ...
October 19, 2009
Perhaps it is in the entire history of representative (Parliamentary) democratic system Nepal could be the only one nation, which honors those political leaders who lost people´s electoral mandate from nation´s historic elections of Constituent Assembly upon the daylight of 21st century....
October 05, 2009
Drafting of a new constitution ought to be inspired with revolutionary expectations against the establishment of status quo. In spite of the revolution born of diverse and conflicting perspectives the new proposal must redirect the nation for an overall structural change. The new proposal must addr...
September 23, 2009
Who wants change in Nepal, not with the rhetoric to make Nepal Switzerland overnight, but to transform Nepal with the legislations that can deliver good governance and justice? This means the Parliament or the elected representatives of legislative body of the government take comprehensive respon...
September 07, 2009
In my opinion that those who opposed the bill that the Committee for Determining the Judicial System of Constituent Assembly has passed recently for appointing Supreme Court justices by the Parliament need further understanding on the question of check and balance of power in Democracy beyond the st...
August 31, 2009
It is an ethical question for the elected representatives in Democracy to enforce with their piece of legislation the true administration of justice which is the firmest pillar of good government all beyond their party-line-politics. This means supporting that bill whichever political party endorses...
July 28, 2009
The so-called main democratic political parties such as Nepali Congress, UML and their certain leaders who think along the line of GP Koirala can try to fool Nepali people forget all about how state army violated the human rights, but not the world-community at their expense which are concern about ...
June 14, 2009
If the status quo Nepali politicians and their counsels could have been realistic with their cognitive and optimistic bias towards Democracy they would have second thought for not to adore a ceremonial president with the executive power of supreme commander of Nepal Army. Instead such a constitutio...
May 20, 2009
Had Nepali Congress joined Maoist-led government could that had helped form a consensus government for non-partisan politics to prevail? It is easier to blame Nepali Congress than to really see its likelihood. The current political turmoil is the evidence of partisan politics in real-time power stru...
May 12, 2009
As per Nepal´s legal experts if the excessive use of power in an arbitrary mode, specifically against the unilateral decision of Maoist-led civil government, by the ceremonial president as a commander in-chief of Nepal Army under the Parliamentary system in Democracy is not unconstitutional th...
May 07, 2009
One does not need to be a Nepal´s constitutional expert to understand that a ceremonial president in the Parliamentary system of government in Democracy has no constitutional provision to veto people elected government´s decision regardless of civil or military decision. However, if the...
May 05, 2009
What kind of Parliamentary system is this where the army chief who has disobeyed decisions of people elected civil government on several occasions can defy government order on his discharge by claiming that the president but not the Prime Minister who has constitutional power to lay him off from his...
April 23, 2009
The conflict between people elected Maoist-led government and Nepal Army establishment is the result of institutional discoordination in regard to dealing with Maoist-led civil government despite Nepal Army´s commitment to Democracy. Had the civil government been led by Nepali Congress, which faile...
April 08, 2009
Nepal Communist party United-Maoist (UM) has taken the leadership of government with the simple majority of Constituent Assembly elections. The fundamental objective of the government is to draft a secular constitution of ´Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal´ that has been declared with the overwh...
March 29, 2009
In 561 BCE when Siddhartha Gautama, the prince of Kapilavastu - one of the small kingdoms of the northern delta of Ganges became a Buddha there was neither the modern India nor Nepal nor Brahminist Sanskrit Bharat. However, the modern India has not clearly backed off from its early projection of cl...
March 21, 2009
Can leaders of major political parties of Nepal transcend themselves from "self-serving" politics at least for this transition period? Obviously, it is a question of conscientious to honestly address the political challenges that nation has been confronted at this stage. Unquestionably, the more t...
March 08, 2009
How a glory of a nation on the tip of the two massive plate tectonics movement can be appraised in the first place with "Daura-Suruwal-Topi" as Nepali-men´s national dress over the geological time with the 21st century´s technology that has almost reached the point for new direction to shape process...
February 20, 2009
Of course, the consensus politics cannot overrule the authority of electoral process in multiparty Democracy, particularly electing leaders and representatives, and nominating political appointees in all three branches of government – legislative, executive and judiciary. However, consensus politic...
February 16, 2009
Argument: Why should NRN have dual citizenship provision in a new constitution of Nepal? There have been many street views of fellow Nepali published in Kathmandu local news papers against NRN´s demand for dual citizenship provision with their own repressing notion of politics and depressing persona...
February 05, 2009
Despite Nepal Maoists´ repeated rhetoric against "status quo", unless for both soft and hardliner Maoists the norms and principle of democracy are roadblocks, the attempt of Maoist-let government to issue ordinances during Parliament recess without the political consensus of people´s elected Constit...
January 28, 2009
Perhaps the people´s aspiration for a new Nepal is easy said than edifice without conflicts. However, conflicts are unavoidable despite the common agreement of all. But the outcome depends on how sensibly the parties involved in the conflict take the responsibility. For example, in the case...
January 24, 2009
Nepal has failed historically in complying with the "Rule of Law" in government practices and made itself world renown for its ongoing tradition of impunity all time in all three branches of government. The question is "why Nepal has to be doomed with such traditions that perpetuate party favoritis...
January 12, 2009
Perhaps it is very difficult for Indian-Hindus to accept the fact that Nepal is a multi-religion nation. The multi-ethnic and the multi-culture population of Nepal in big-time was brainwashed by mere mythological aspect of Hindu religion in order to enforce caste system based on Manusmirti by inhab...
January 04, 2009
When twelve years´ pseudo-democratic practice under the monarchical setup was suspended for the rule of absolute dictatorship by Gyanendra Shah the top leaders of main political parties were hung-up and shaken for their willingness to confess mistakes. But now what they have become with their confe...
December 23, 2008
What commitments Maoists have or have not fulfilled towards 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord despite the political pressures so far will determine the future of Nepal, if conscientious democratic forces from every corner – politics, media, elites, civil society and intellectuals fail to scrutinize th...
December 16, 2008
First of all, the international institutions such as UN, World Bank, and Asian Development Bank have to understand whether they are willing to sacrifice democracy with their financial supports for the socio-economic transformation that Maoist led government has prioritized knowing that Maoists have ...
December 09, 2008
Perhaps Maoist insurgency could have never been merged with "People´s April Uprising" if Maoists had not revealed their fundamental demand for the Constituent Assembly elections to draft a new constitution of Nepal. That is to say, if Maoist insurgency did not have surfaced demands along the ...
November 27, 2008
Despite the media reporting on minister of culture and state restructuring Gopal Kirati´s gold-rush for innovation, once before criticized by the constitutional pundits and CA secretariats for his attempt to rule-out CA jurisdiction, minister Kirati´s recent draft for federal government system resem...
November 17, 2008
Anxiety of the status quo ante pundits of justice system of Nepal over the demand of quota system for the inclusiveness that challenges the age-old tradition of appointment of judges, which is exclusively feudalistic – "dominated by upper caste group"; which is processed arbitrarily without scrutiny...
November 15, 2008
People do not know the motives of either leader whose hat is on or whose hat is off of the government power. If the tradition of "national hat" over the heads of party leaders in government power symbolizes nationalism – "seriousness in political behavior" then what symbolizes when the hat is off o...
November 10, 2008
Failure of public school system of Nepal is the result of centrally controlled government mechanism of "employee-expert-run" education system. The system is anti-democratic because it is devoid of electoral representations of people to play responsible rule in education. The model is communist rep...
November 03, 2008
First of all, it has become a question whether Nepali Congress leaderships are serious about the multi-facet national crises that can drag entire nation to a civil war with the probability of socio-economic anarchism if the political consensus among major political parties failed.
Therefore, it...
October 18, 2008
When a nation is departing through transitional democratic processes with the grave socio-political and economic crises honestly no party agenda of any political party can play an effective role. It is rather the national consensus becomes indispensably pertinent for laying the foundation of self-s...
October 12, 2008
Perhaps the time has come for Nepal to acknowledge the long-term prospect of Non-Resident Nepali from North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other developed nations of the world to play significant role in economic developments at this global financial crisis. Most probably the gl...
October 08, 2008
People´s aspiration for democracy though can awaken historical momentum such as "April Uprising" for nation to initiate its foundation but it alone itself cannot build the nation. For this nation needs visionary leaderships, not as heavily conditioned ideologist such as of hardliner Maoists of Nepa...
September 28, 2008
It has been less ambiguous in recent times that "Prachandpath" or the awe-inspiring vision for a new Nepal has had begun with the honest inquiry of Nepal Maoist party leaderships during People´s War up on the history of the communist movements, particularly the Russian Revolution that perverted peop...
September 22, 2008
First of all, communists of Nepal, mainly the Maoist and UML political parties have to understand clearly that communism or socialism or liberalism or conservatism or feudalism is not the political system but the ideology similar to the doctrines of religion.
Unlike the ideology or doctrine or ...
September 17, 2008
Judges of Kathmandu District Court does not need to protest against the charge of the President of Nepal Bar Association. Instead judges should take the charge an opportunity to look into for the transformation of district courts of entire nation to make them free of corruption. It is the need of ...
September 10, 2008
Nepal a nation of the most primordial form of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-religion enclaves of diverse society since Neolithic period of human history never has dared to evolve out of its feudal way of life that has been obscured with multifaceted superstitions and religious propaganda. T...
September 03, 2008
The current public transport of Nepal is based on syndicate system of private sectors. The question is – "how does such a syndicate system has been running under a semi-feudal business organization level?" Basically, it is a business organization which is run under the sweepstake rule of selections...
August 26, 2008
It is a political question if the provision of interim constitution permits a political party to nominate individuals from its party leaderships or celebrities who are other than the current members of Parliament, then what electoral democratic culture such a nomination will set? Obviously, it will...
August 23, 2008
The nation like Nepal, which has been ruled for century by feudal tradition of arbitrary rule of law at this point in 21st century, does not care political parties´ political rhetoric or ideological gobbledygook in the name of people and democracy. But people´s historic movements for democracy and ...
August 19, 2008
Average south Asian immigrants who have come to America are middle class of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka whose whole infant life for generations have been nourished with the fatty water-buffalo-milk products. The water-buffalo-milk is high in LDL (low-density-l...
August 16, 2008
First of all, congratulations to Maoist party for winning premiership of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal with the overwhelming majority of votes of Constituent Assembly. International community has extended its congratulations promptly to the elected Prime Minister Maoist chairman Puspa Kamal ...
August 11, 2008
People of Nepal have been misled in the name of democracy with the conspiracies of politics of double standard – promising one thing but doing completely opposite, for half a century by every leadership who made a public pledge. But the democracy is the process that cannot be accomplished with such...
August 04, 2008
What is common minimum program of Maoist Nepal? Does it play a significant role in drafting a new constitution of Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal? Could it accomplish the fundamental objective of Constituent Assembly and its government? We must question and reason rather than make immediate j...
July 29, 2008
In democracy it is considered reactionary if an individual strikes tactlessly in order to establish the agenda of his or her party, gang or tribe because such spank violates the rule of law. But it is not reasonable for one to fight back in the same manner under a lawful democratic society that mi...
July 27, 2008
An elected vice president is accountable as an individual citizen of Nepal to the entire nation because Paramananda Jha was not solely elected by the votes of his political party, which has nominated him as one of the candidates of Nepal´s first vice-president. Therefore, his choice of language for...
July 23, 2008
In democracy those political party leaders who are either afraid of competing refrain from the ballot, or compete only if all-party consensus is reached for making sure to win or compete with the peculiar warning – "if you do not elect us, we will walk out from our responsibility" have indeed no res...
July 19, 2008
First of all, Dr. Ram Baran Yadav has secured 294 votes of Constituent Assembly out of the first round of the presidential election. He could have been the first elected president of Nepal yesterday if twenty-four votes of president were not cancelled.
However, it is politically clear that the C...
July 18, 2008
The best of democracy is the practice of electoral competition. The political consensus driven democratic rule in a multiparty democracy is necessary when the nation´s electoral institutions either are politically dismantled or had been suspended by the coup d'état but reinstated with the protests ...
July 15, 2008
If Maoist as a major political party in Constituent Assembly of Nepal is going to facilitate drafting of a new constitution of Federal Democratic Republic Nepal, then it should better balance the power in order to form a stable cabinet by electing the first president of Nepal not necessarily for sak...
July 14, 2008
World has witnessed over a year Nepal Terai´s marginalized ethnic and indigenous people´s movement for the federal government system to secure their right to self-governance for their different indigenous nationalities, Indian origin Hindu ethnic group known as "Madhesi" and "Dalits" by restructurin...
July 11, 2008
It has been clear at least metaphorically with the protest letter of Jaya Prakash Prasad Gupta of Madhesi People's Rights Forum at Constituent Assembly that Madhesi demand for an autonomous one-Madhes-one Province is truly meant to split Nepal vertically whether their agreement with the interim gove...
July 06, 2008
Leaders of almost all political parties´ have clearly realized at this difficult transition period that whatever agreement Nepali Congress led SPA interim government signed with United Madhesi Democratic Front prior to Constituent Assembly elections has not only entrapped the government and obstruct...
July 04, 2008
Definitely, it has not yet been public whether main political parties have ever been doubtful of those Madhesi political parties´ agenda, which demand repulsively one Madhes and one province or one autonomous Madhes, what if it is vested with a future format of disintegrating the nation. However, t...
July 02, 2008
Geographically, Nepal is made up of three physical regions highlands, hills and plains known as Himalayas, Pahad and Terai. Anthropologically, the aboriginal people of these three regions of Nepal are Tharus, Magars, and Kirats. None the less, all autochthonous people of Nepal are indigenous natio...
July 01, 2008
Nepal as a nation of multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual in its entire history of state formation since the period of Kirat and Lichhivi dynasty prior to this modern republic period its national integrity had never ever been politically trivialized as of the Madhesi political parties´ dem...
June 28, 2008
First of all, no government agreements with any political party or organization or foreign government can bypass the electoral right of people´s representatives either in the transitional Constituent Assembly or in the future Parliament of a new democratic Nepal. This is the most hard-earned people...
June 25, 2008
First all, in defense of democracy from being violated by the poor and ill minded politics of politicians of Nepal it has to be absolutely clear that neither the government cabinet nor its national security council can overrule the electoral power of people´s representatives either in the transition...
June 22, 2008
It´s been hard for SPA leaderships to acknowledge the fact that their rule of political consensus has come to a logical end with the people´s elected representatives of Constituent Assembly. If the main political parties simply fail to make political consensus on issues due to their differences the...
June 17, 2008
People are fed-up to their nose with the political parties´ dirty politics, particularly of Nepali Congress party. People no longer want dirty politics that creates imprudent and self-contradictory standoffs. Because no matter how the political parties set it up the game for their bargaining chips...
June 14, 2008
People´s elected representatives of Constituent Assembly have declared Nepal a secular federal democratic republic. Of course, political consensus of major political parties and their leaderships have led the people´s electoral power to arrive to this historic achievement. But without institutiona...
June 11, 2008
Basically, what Nepali contemporary political leaderships have to understand that the democratic culture can only flourish with the justice and justice is neither equivalent to the retaliatory game of tit-for-tat nor comparable to the South Asian religious tradition of love and compassion. Under th...
June 09, 2008
Nepal is declared according to the proposal statement an independent, indivisible, inclusive, secular federal democratic republic with the sovereignty and state authority vested in people. What state authority is other than the controlling-electoral-mechanism by the elected people´s representatives...
June 07, 2008
Why do elected people´s representatives represent in the Parliament or Assembly or Senate in democracy? If the government head, cabinet and political parties dictate the political consensus for the people and nation then what for do we elect people´s representatives? Do not think peopl...
June 02, 2008
Based on the principle of political consensus as per the mandate of people that was incorporated during April Uprising no single party is the winner and none the other are loser. But all parties have established people´s representations out of constituent Assembly elections. All representativ...
May 30, 2008
Why have people of Nepal been so passionate about the declaration of secular republic and why have they been so happy about abolishing two-hundred-forty years old institution of monarchy at this point in the history of Nepal? As a matter of fact, Nepal has had never been a nation in its history tha...
May 08, 2008
Had SPA – ´Seven-Party Alliance of Nepal´, chosen Open-List method of proportional representation electoral system for constituent assembly elections instead of Closed-List, political parties could have been challenged to nominate their candidates more democratically. Since no political parties wit...
May 03, 2008
Politically, it is unethical for Maoist leaderships to lead the government prior to abolishing the institution of the feudal monarchy and declaring Nepal a federal democratic republic to set the guideline for drafting the new constitution of a secular state. If they did then they will be re-enforcin...
April 26, 2008
People have on April Uprising and on the successful CA elections demonstrated the historical people´s mandate. Now it is up to the political parties to follow its logical sequence in coordination with their political consensus for creating a new democratic Nepal. Obviously as per the interim c...
April 21, 2008
The dangerous of all about the institution of monarchy of Nepal is the retention of its feudal tradition that sustains on Hindu religion of beliefs and superstitions in the name of culture. It will be rather creating a non-win situation for people against their aspiration after all that two hundred ...
April 15, 2008
Status quo driven main political party - Nepali Congress (NC) and United Marxist Leninist (UML) leaderships and their cadres were confident in winning substantial constituent assembly seats. Similarly, cognitively biased ruling elites, diplomats, intellectuals and main media sitcoms were sure that M...
April 06, 2008
What could be the radical change and how could that be materialized even in socio-political and economic sense for one of the poorest nations of the world in the global economics of the 21st century? If the Communist Party of Nepal Maoist leaderships think for the radical change in terms of capturin...
April 02, 2008
Just as humans inherit their genetic make-up and socio-familial collective consciousness in course of their upbringings so as the nation and its political entities carry on their influence as their heritage from the contemporary socio-political processes. How sensibly an individual responds to other...
March 27, 2008
Nepal as a diverse ethnic society had long been ram-shackled with the feudal Hindu socio-religious values that are dishonorably convoluted and foolishly perverted from its original source – Vedic religion of philosophies. This fact to the feudal authorities such as the institution of the monarchy an...
March 22, 2008
On several occasions international community has called ´The Law Enforcement Tradition of Nepal´ the culture of impunity. What elements of society encourage the culture of impunity is the question perhaps nation´s ruling elites, responsible judiciary personalities and political leaderships are prim...
March 19, 2008
Is Tibet geographically part of South Asia? If not then when socio-political and economic crises occur in Tibet troubles should not pour down on to the nations of the South Asia. Nevertheless, historically that is not true since 500 BCE after Siddhartha Gautama established his philosophy of Buddhis...