00:00The last kind of an indication we saw in Nepal, where the youth was actually asserting its
00:07position was when Balendra Sahai, if you remember, Balendra Sahai was a rapper, a musician, a
00:13civil engineer in Kathmandu, who actually owned and became the Kathmandu mayor, one of the youngest
00:22mayors in the 15th Kathmandu mayor. That was the time there was also a lot of talk whether
00:27the youth in Nepal, a country which is completely stricken with poverty and unemployment will come
00:34to that, is actually seeing an assertion of youth or it's a kind of a rise of the youth to take the
00:41center stage. What we are seeing right now in Nepal, there are certain commonalities that the youth is
00:47mobilized and of course they might have drawn certain kind of you know strength, some kind of
00:53moral booster from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, but the issues here are completely different.
01:01But at the same time, I'll just before we move to the next thing, one commonality that cannot be
01:07actually kind of you know overlooked or oversighted is the role of the external actors. What we are
01:15seeing, I'm not reading too much into it, but just to provoke our kind of audience and the thinkers,
01:21you see the India and the US relationship is not in best of the kind of terms right now and we have
01:28certain kind of issues in Nepal and any mishappening there in Nepal has a direct spillover effect on us
01:37okay on India. So that's it. Well, the role of US in a kind of a delegitimizing second comment, the
01:44role of China and the US and Sri Lanka right now, the things are not very clear. Okay, whether tens of
01:50thousands of thousands of students and coming, you know, and storming the states there in Nepal,
01:56I cannot completely rule out the role of the external actors actually provoking and igniting such a protest.
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