Ghunghat of Madhesh: A Profusion of Anti-democracy or Caches of Soft Ritual?

Cultural hegemony devises people. It segregates the people from two or more distinct culture. Especially people who come from first class find second class citizens of their own country culturally backward and uncivilized. The caste system in hindu countries like our has typically refortified those class and caste who have been privileged from decades ago. Thus its not surprising for Kathmanduites to find Janakpurian a way backward than them because they live in capital city. Living in sophisticated plaace and thus glorifying oneself is the matter of ego satisfaction on the circumstance of materialism. Materialistic thoughts and movement of people also creates fraction among them. People with privilege of all the necessary and advanced suppliers regard them more advantaged. Thus binary and heterogeneous cultural formation are the results of society’s geographical and cultural practices. Such cultural practices are vague because they don’t have scientific measures to define their parameters.

No big matter that Kathmandu and Janakpur both are holy cities. Both share common culture of hindu doctrines but the problem with them is class and caste system. Caste system has even become successful to keep one in border of indifference. Another most striking cause is the varied cultural practices that have made Janakpurians far way to catch the status of Bihar’s and Uttar Pradesh identity. Culturally the social dogmas make them for incompatible cultures of hilly and Himalayan region. The practices of marriage, family life and daily life behavioral are much ruled posed. The private life of women in Janakpur has been presented as much ideal and prestigious because they are regularized in strict paternal society. The cultural practices of putting a woman under “Ghunghat” represents not civilized and most prestigious culture for those western loving women of valley.

Civilization and city culture has been able to put us far from each other. We hardly find the person from other culture mere tolerant and as good as us. This is typically much bigger problem in valley because of education and fast pacing internet. Being accustomed with western culture and trying oneself to put on level of westerners by copying their dress style and phony language valley dwellers have been able to marginalize the Madhesh ideology. City dwellers are nothing more than a mannequin dressed and tongued in western discourses. Should we let them construct this identiy or should Madhesh need to change the ideology? The cultural construction of ideology and habitual practices are the reasons that have surely kept Madesh in periphery of cultural progression. S

Janakpur and Kathmandu are the emblems of two culturally distinct orientations. Former is cosmopolitically governed whereas latter remains as historically governed. The cultural ambivalence between them is defining them in their own terms. The right hand of binary opposiotion always functions as the powerful device to subvert the left hand side of the powerful regime. Thus, the distraction of civic culture found in Madhesh culture must be put to access of a bit global and scientific education. Culturally forming binary and oppsiting ideas were there in history and will continue to exist despite persistent activism and call for recognized appearance. The appearance doesn’t seem problem here rather the acquisition of self purity. Confronting the current crisis of cultural binary opposition must thus be challenged and subtracted from the egotistical notion of caste and class superhot by valley dwellers. Resolute and prudent consciousness of city dwellers will help to curtail such detestable ideas for each other.