Nepal is well known as one of the poorest countries on this planet. Figures are categorical: 80% of the population live with less than 2 dollars a day... So do economists say.
Still after travelling there one month, and crossing half of the country on the roof of the bus, i d like to share a vision, an experience, a feeling much different from those empty figures: not a single time have we witnessed similar misery to India. Here human being do not live in wastelands and dumps; nor do they feed themselves with the trashes from upper castes.
Still anchored in a rural way of life, far away from the cancerous urban monstuosities as Dehli, Agra, Varanasi, or any other "civilised" degeneration, the Nepali are indeed considered as extremly poor regarding their low benefit to the world wide capitalism. Most of them work their piece of land for no wage, and therefore do not create value from a modern economic point of view. Yet, all of them, or so, eat every meal; all of them, or so, sleep under a roof; all of them with no exception display a warm and radiant smile on their face.
The village in the western Terai that we have crossed through dont get uselessly proud for a 'brand new five storeys shopping center'; nor do they have to live in the shame of what they do to the mother earth. No instead of those futilities, their faces are tagged with the harsh life in the fields and with the satisafaction of that who everyday feeds his family and heards.
Nepal finally taught us that pauverty is not the state of whoever lives with no material possessions, but the condition of the forever-unsatisfied who runs after a so-called happiness sold on advertising pannels.
damien
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