First book reading for women’s literacy (
by hon- madam Hisila Yami ). 26
September 2021

There is a saying“If you educate a man you educate a person
if you educate a woman you educate a generation. ”
Respected Chairperson, chief guest, guest and all the
participants warm greeting. First of all I would like to thank
the program for giving me this opportunity to speak about
my view.
I would like to thank hon. Hisila Yami for writing this book
and also making children and adults realize about the
hardship that people face in the civil war. The civil war
started in Nepal in 1992 and ended in 2002. I was born in
2011 so I did not know about the people war that much.
But this book made me realize about the hardship that
the people faced during the war and much more about
the war than I know. I think this book is more political
and ideological. There are so many contains inside the
book which I cannot understand because subjects are to
vast for me. So I might be wrong in some points. Please
correct me at last if I do so.
Anyway now I am standing here to speak of small review
from my view. Among the 38 topics of this book I am
going to try to say something from topic 18 named “love,
marriage and children”.

In this chapter Hisila has written about the affairs in the
people war and how Maoist cadres used to marry when
the wars were happening. It is a paining as well as an
inspiring and interesting story. Everyone had their own
opinion about their marriage and affairs. Some said it was
good but some said that it blocks the path of carrier.
Those people who understood the both and went ahead
became successful is my thinking.
Now I am going to concentrate in the suffering of children
during the war as I am a child myself. Hisila has written
many people think that the Maoist used children cadres in
the battlefield. But she clarified that it isn’t true. The
truth is those people who died in the battle and those
people who were participating in the battle their children
and family were in compulsion to get involved in the
movement. Otherwise government police and army
would capture and kill them. They didn’t have any other
options to live their life. According to the writer many
lives of children were affected and many children were
the victim of the battle. Definitely, during the war children
didn’t get to have proper food, clothes, education and
even medicine when needed because war is war. People
had to go through hardship because of the war. Child
rights didn’t matter in war.
But, has anyone ever questioned that is child rights
prevailing today? I know that the war has stopped in
Nepal, there is peace. But children problem are still a

major problem existing in our society. Many of us were not
educated but let’s leave the past. Let’s concentrate on the
present. These days children’s are not getting proper food,
clothes and education. Children are not getting to follow
their passion because they don’t have the needed essentials.
For simple example I was born and am living in Kathmandu. I
have an interest on space science, but I am not getting the
available books and places I need to see in order to be a
space scientist. For example I am not getting to see the place
I want to see the most planetarium and the books I want to
read the most in Kathmandu the capital city of Nepal. Let’s
not talk about the other remote districts but the books I need
aren’t available on Kathmandu. So I would like to question
everybody shouldn’t we think about the children’s future.
We all say that children are our future, children will develop
the country but what if the children don’t have the necessary
equipment, has anyone though about that. It’s time we see
children’s needs and rights differently. And one more thing. I
think most of you have already visited the whole city
Kathmandu. But have you ever seen a library or a children’s
park there. Definitely not. Because there are not many
libraries or children park in Kathmandu. In order for children
to be creative these things must be established at all places.
Has anyone ever thought about it that way? That’s why I
think that war and difficulty for children is still going on. So
we need to continue and continue fighting for this issue.
Thank you.
Medhavi Bhusal
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