Specter, I avoided all my life during my stay at a hotel around the Sundhara area. I was taught that this was something not to be seen. This disturbing reality of the metropolis with its sleazy underbellies was never part of my imagination. After watching this great documentary, the haunting is inevitable.
Kathmandu in its bustling pace leaves most lives to go unnoticed, in fact, it sucks the life out of the most vulnerable ones. Just as I anticipated, Dalit children, abandoned by their parents under precarious conditions and rejected by the societies. The minority link is strong here, even if you say otherwise.
Nepal has political, social, structural, ethnic, and cultural complexities, that are hard to make sense of adequately. To say it another way, it is truly a postmodern nightmare. Unfortunately, charity or orphanage isn't the case here, things are much deeper. The hierarchical nature of our societies leaves most things systemic at all levels. The outcasts fall out of the discourse. Poverty associated with them is hard to overcome because of this strong resistance created by Nepalese symbolic order which doesn't welcome the so called inappropriate. Can't describe this enough.
The children shown in this documentary have a long way to go or their lives are just fleeting ethereal on the streets of this hellhole. I hope the least. Am I a pessimist? I don't know, but I can precisely see things from their shoes. And if this has to be resolved, a very big radical step has to be taken here or there will be more Sonus in the street curled into shivering ball pulling blankets.
Thank you for making this piece of art. Facepalm moment for society makers. Huge respect !!!!
Kathmandu in its bustling pace leaves most lives to go unnoticed, in fact, it sucks the life out of the most vulnerable ones. Just as I anticipated, Dalit children, abandoned by their parents under precarious conditions and rejected by the societies. The minority link is strong here, even if you say otherwise.
Nepal has political, social, structural, ethnic, and cultural complexities, that are hard to make sense of adequately. To say it another way, it is truly a postmodern nightmare. Unfortunately, charity or orphanage isn't the case here, things are much deeper. The hierarchical nature of our societies leaves most things systemic at all levels. The outcasts fall out of the discourse. Poverty associated with them is hard to overcome because of this strong resistance created by Nepalese symbolic order which doesn't welcome the so called inappropriate. Can't describe this enough.
The children shown in this documentary have a long way to go or their lives are just fleeting ethereal on the streets of this hellhole. I hope the least. Am I a pessimist? I don't know, but I can precisely see things from their shoes. And if this has to be resolved, a very big radical step has to be taken here or there will be more Sonus in the street curled into shivering ball pulling blankets.
Thank you for making this piece of art. Facepalm moment for society makers. Huge respect !!!!
