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More Essay Contests
In Nepali/Hindu/Urdu and English (you can
participate in as many as you like)
the selected Essays will be suitably
awarded and published.
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1. |
Barring the vanity ridden
idiots and money-hungry
monsters of the world, has
anybody anything to lose by
the demise of capitalism? |
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2. |
The richest people in the
world are the poorest of all |
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3. |
The most powerful man is the
weakest of men |
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4. |
As long as capitalism
survives, everyone will be
wretched |
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5. |
Everybody presently belongs
to some or the other
wretched minority |
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6. |
The fears and sorrows of
belonging to any minority
group |
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7. |
Misers render their lives
voluntarily loathsome |
Closing
Date:
31st June 2007.
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8. |
Causes of the failure of the
Maoist movements (Naxalbari,
India; JVP, Sri Lanka;
Shinning Path, Peru |
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9. |
Contribution of the Maoist
movements to the prospect of
the World Revolution |
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10. |
Maoists have proved
themselves as the
safety-valves for the
continuance of feudalism and
capitalism |
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11. |
Why don’t the Maoists learn
any lessons from their
defeats |
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12. |
Is there any difference
between the Left Socialist
Revolutionaries of 1918–1924
and the Maoists? |
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13. |
Comparison and contrast
between the Maoists and
Anarchist—Proudhon and
Company (Marx’s Poverty of
Philosophy, Capital… Engels’
The Housing Question… and
Lenin’s Imperialism, the
Highest Stage of Capitalism,
State and Revolution, and
other works from 1910–1922
for reference) |
Closing
Date:
30th December 2007.
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14. |
Wherever you draw it, the
border between India and
Pakistan is the
manifestation of a raving
madness |
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15. |
Had Mohammad Ali Jinnah
survived two decades more,
Pakistan wouldn’t be any
better |
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16. |
If Allama Iqbal would have
seen the wholesale massacre
of 1947! (considering the
fact that Iqbal was awfully
sensitive to blood, so much
so that when he saw his son
bleeding one day, he
instantly turned
unconscious—this fact is
reported by Javed Iqbal in
Aapna Giraiban Chawk) |
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17. |
Allama Iqbal as the mirror
of the failure of the
revolution in Hindustan |
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18. |
Critical appreciation of
Allama Iqbal |
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19. |
Not only is the border
in-between Kashmir an insane
problem but all the borders
all over the world are the
manifestation of the Epochs
of Savagery, Barbarism,
Feudalism and Modern
Tyranny—hence all borders
between people must vanish
now |
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20. |
Allama Iqbal and Muhammad
Ali Jinnah, the Victims of
the Congress Party’s
Chicanery |
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21. |
Are the Muslim masses any
better in Pakistan than in
India? |
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22. |
The aims, actors and
propagators of the Mallabar
(Hindustan) communal riots
in 1924 |
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23. |
Malabar communal carnage as
a huge nail in the coffin of
the prospective revolution
in Hindustan |
Closing
Date: 31st June 2008.
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24–25 |
Laxmi Prasad Devkota as a
humanist/moralist |
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26 |
Laxmi Prasad Devkota as the
mirror the national
helplessness, and
desperation of Nepal |
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27 |
Laxmi Prasad Devkota as the
mirror the confused
rebellion against Ranarchy |
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28 |
Ranas were not only the
perpetrators of the
backwardness of people but
their own backwardness also |
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29 |
Ranas were the enemies of
their ownselves also.
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Closing
Date:
31st June 2008.
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30 |
Was Buddha aware about the
Mahabharata? |
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31 |
When was Mahabharata
written? |
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32 |
Fools must live up to the
expectations of fools |
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33 |
Idiots shall always worship
fools |
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34 |
Wise must live up to the
expectations of the wise |
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35 |
Fools will always be
dissatisfied with the wise |
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36 |
Wise shall always be unhappy
about the ways of the fools |
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37 |
Some people are born blind,
others render themselves so |
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38 |
Some are born crippled,
other use their physical
strength to render
themselves so |
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39 |
Some are born dullards,
other use their minds to be
come so |
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40 |
Robbery doesn’t make a man
rich, nor prosperity wise |
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41 |
A donkey is a donkey even if
clad with gold |
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42 |
The river in my
city/town/village is the
mirror of the (Historical)
status of life here (for
example, Jamuna is the
(historical) mirror of the
condition of life in Delhi) |
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43 |
In the process of evolution,
donkeys became/remained
donkeys because? |
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44 |
Every Society is itself
responsible for its own
plight |
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45 |
All the parliamentarians all
over the world are the
worshippers of capitalism. |
Closing
Date:
31st June 2009
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46 |
As Long as there is private
ownership of land and
industries, living and dead
Partners of Allah will be
adored |
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47–51 |
As long as there is no
Global Unity of Humanity;
everyone will remain
wretched/catastrophes will
grow/terrorism will
thrive/frustrations will
increase/desperation will
develop… |
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52 |
Following the Western ruling
class in everything
abominable (while adopting
nothing good in them) is
lifelessness |
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53 |
Positive aspects of the rule
of Western Nations upon the
“barbarian or
semi-barbarian” nations |
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54 |
Leading the world out of the
ultra-savagery of Capitalism
is Life Manifest |
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55 |
Fundamentalism is the
Passport to Death |
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56 |
Cultural diffusion in any
sector of life (including
languages) is the passport
to improvement |
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57 |
The Phenomenon of Stupefying
of the World’s Public |
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58 |
He is dead who doesn’t
devote his life to humanity |
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59 |
Those who devote their lives
to capitalism, feudalism and
pre-feudal crookedness,
vanity and wickedness… |
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60 |
Meat-eating in various
forms—is it justified? |
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61 |
The first
solitary-confinement (Gufa
Basnu) and the monthly
untouchability of women
amongst certain castes—is it
justified? |
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62 |
Barring the exception of
children, everybody has the
will to survive, none the
will to live |
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63 |
Can societies revive from
their dying social souls |
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64–65 |
Humanity will/will not
always be deceived and,
hence, wretched |
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66 |
The holy men of the present
time are surrounded by the
worst of the unholy |
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67 |
All the towering religious
personages are the cultural
ambassadors of capitalism
and feudalism |
Closing
Date:
31st June 2010
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68 |
As long as you are stagnant,
a petty breeze can chill
you; If you move, ice will
melt under your feet |
Closing
Date:
31st December 2006
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