Legalizing Prostitution

Legalizing Prostitution
I dont criticize if you are against prostitution. Personally, even I am against it. It's certainly not a good thing to have sex with some other people and basically when you are in relation. It's all through prostitution you gift disease to your spouse. No matter if you use the contraceptives, it's not at all respectable thing to go motels and hotels for your physical satisfaction. You are not a good person if you go there. But even smoking is bad, it is risky too. Still you smoke. So no matter how much the explanation, criticisms or persuasion is done, people go there and the business continues.
Despite the fact prostitution is cursed specially the girl there exists a behind. Let me trace one that I heard on one of the FM station. She came from poor family, both her father and mother died. She had no option than suicide and then her sister's face stops her from it. Being elder it was her responsibility to look after her two sisters. She then got job first in the dance bar and then in prostitution. Today her both sisters are studying in good school. Now do you call this girl good or bad? If you are human, you salute her and if not you would call her good only if she had committed suicide. We never care for such hidden stories thereby. She sold her body and let her sisters learn. Now do you call prostitute bad? Prostitution bad? Take it from economical view, legalizing prostitute will definitely help the country's economy prosper. There are points like corruption that will create obstacle but strict tender system can work out. There are countries that developed after legalizing prostitution. So why are we lagging behind? Now the question comes should Government allow it? Oh! Come on! Government should not allow smoking by closing the factory, but why don't they do? Because they receive heavy tax out for it! Similar is the case of it. Legalizing it will let the Government earn a lot for sure. And even when Government is not allowing, the business is on. Now, I don't mean to open it everywhere for everyone. Let certain area be separated for it with the restrictions in factors like contraceptives, age etc. It' will definitely give direct and indirect job to a lot. Foreign dollars will be welcomed openly then. If Government is that tough, it has to be able to close all alcoholic factories of the country else has to provide full employment and when it can't do both, it not any injustice to launch open sex in Nepal.
It is something really stupid to expect the Government providing employment services to all. So legalizing free sex can really be beneficial from economical vision. Instead Government can warn the prostitutes regarding the misuse that can destroy their life and can provide condoms to them so that they can advise their clients or customers strictly to put it on. More than that Government can also provide a good source of earning to them. People go to the prostitutes even when it is termed illegal, and this has proved something impossible to stop this business basically in towns and cities. It's not bad idea either or the prostitute to live their life selling their body rather than selling kidneys. So why are we still backward in it? The fear can be within Government regarding over all protests, so let's stay prepared to Welcome if Government decides to legalize sex. Have a safe Sex!

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The burden of education

The burden of education
Can't you even carry this thin book?" I remember my teacher scolding me with this line. I wanted to reply, "Ma'am,can you carry ten books and ten notebooks every day? I am sure you would call for someone if
you had to carry three kilos of vegetables. Now compare our size!" but I always stopped myself. I really had a tough time going to and from school carrying a bag that weighed not less than five kilos. These days, I see students carrying similar loads outside my window, and I remember my childhood days.

The education system of Nepal has been admired all around, but it is becoming more and more expensive. The boarding school system divided by various examinations and extra activities are the best parts of boarding schools in Nepal. Providing good and solid English tuition is another great advantage. These probably are the reasons why parents send their children to boarding schools, no matter how expensive it is. However, the monetary cost, physical punishment and sometimes poor teachers are problems, but they can be experienced in many other schools too. My least favourite thing, however, was the weight of my schoolbag.

It's nothing amazing to see an eight year old child carrying a bag that weights more than three kilos everyday while going to school. It is a common thing for students studying in Class Eight to carry something like five kilos. Parents are powerless to change this. A student needs to carry at least eight textbooks every day. Similarly, eight notebooks, which can be further divided; like science gets
divided into biology, chemistry, physics and astronomy; English into literature and grammar; social studies into history, geography etc.

Students hardly realise that the weight is troubling them, but later on in life, symptom like back pain appear. It's difficult carrying weighty bags and walking. There is a lack of school bags designed for
such heavyweight purposes, so bags tear often. Educational institutions need to take this issue seriously. It might be difficult and expensive to launch e-schooling in the present situation, but they can still bring certain changes. Minimising subdivision of subjects enables students to carry less. A good library
with all sorts of required reading will discourage pupils from carrying such large quantities of books. A trusted drinking water service will mean they needn't carry water. Similarly, there is the role of book publishers too. Publishers can bind the books into one to make it perfect. Unnecessary materials from books can be removed by the concerned authority. Good, proper quality reduces the weight of books and notebooks. Why let the students carry such burdens when it troubles them in the end?

{PUBLISHED IN THE KATHMANDU POST JUNE 02, 2011}

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