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Yuba Nath Lamsal:-- The wheel of history always keeps moving forward. Time does not roll back. Everything in this world is changeable. Change is the permanent feature of nature. Events appear to be repeating but they in reality do not repeat. According to Karl Marx, history repeats itself first as tragedy and second as farce. However, history does not repeat itself in the same fashion as it did in the past. Events may appear to be similar but history does not repeat in the same manner. Thus, it is said, ‘history does not repeat but it only rhymes’. One has to learn from the events of history and accordingly chart out the future course of action. However, one who fails to learn from history, he or she will miserably fail in the future. George Santayana says, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," implying that one must learn lessons from history and past events. Those who do not remember history and fail to learn lessons from the past will defin...

कौटिल्य अथवा चाणक्यलाई आधुनिक कूटनीतिक राज्य सञ्चालन कलाका जनकका रूपमा मानिन्छ । कौटिल्य सूक्ष्म, दूरदर्शी र चतुर राजनीतिक चिन्तक थिए, जसले शासक तथा कूटनीतिज्ञहरूका लागि प्रस्तुत गरेका सिद्धान्त आज पनि विदेश नीति र शासनकलाको आधारस्तम्भका रूपमा प्रयोग भइरहेका छन् । विशेषतः भारतले आफ्नो कूटनीतिक व्यवहारमा कौटिल्यका अनेकौँ रणनीतिलाई अवलम्बन गरेको मानिन्छ । कौटिल्यको सिद्धान्त आधुनिक कूटनीतिक अभ्यासमा यथार्थवादी दृष्टिकोणको प्रारम्भिक अभिव्यक्ति मानिन्छ । यो दृष्टिकोण आदर्शवादी धारणाको ठ्याक्कै विपरीत छ र विद्यमान शक्ति सन्तुलन, क्षमतागत वास्तविकता तथा रणनीतिक परिवेशलाई कूटनीतिक क्रियाकलापको मुख्य आधार मान्छ । कौटिल्यले कूटनीति र शासनकलाका तीन मूल स्तम्भ धन, सेना र जन बललाई मान्छन् । यी तीन स्तम्भमध्ये धनलाई सबैभन्दा शक्तिशाली ठान्छन् । उनले भनेका छन्, ‘ढुकुटीको बलबाटै सेना र सैन्य शक्तिको उत्पन्न र विकास हुन्छ ।’ कौटिल्यको दृष्टिकोणलाई यथार्थवादी मात्र होइन, केही हदसम्म ‘प्रभुत्ववादी र आक्रामक’ शासकीय र विदेश नीतिको मोडेलको रूपमा पनि व्याख्या गरिन्छ । जसलाई आजका केही पश्चिमी शक्ति र तिन...

Yuba Nath Lamsal Journalism had never been on my wish list until the later years of college life. But circumstances led me to be a journalist with The Rising Nepal in the decade of 1980s. Right from the beginning, I held the belief that reading alone does not make a person knowledgeable. Reading makes a person informed on certain matters and issues. Information and knowledge are two different things. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge comes with a deep and accurate understanding of issues. It is often said that reading makes a person better informed, writing more precise, while discussion and interaction make one better. A combination of all three alone equips a person with knowledge, wisdom and leads towards perfection, although perfection is something one can never achieve. Thus, reading, writing and discussion should go hand in hand for everyone to be better, accurate and perfect. Yearning for writing In the beginning, writing was not my cup of tea. Reading was my hobb...

Yuba Nath Lamsal:--- (https://risingnepaldaily.com/news/72393) The world is faced with multiple crises ranging from poverty, economic downturn, global income inequality and armed conflicts to climate change catastrophes. As armed conflicts escalate in different parts of the world, the spectre of nuclear war seems to be looming large. This is not a mere intellectual assumption but is based on the behaviour and rhetoric of leaders of some nuclear-powered countries. Some nuclear-powered countries are already at war. Russia is at war with Ukraine, while Israel is in armed conflict with Palestinians, which has ravaged Gaza and its adjacent areas, killing tens of thousands of civilians. The chances of escalating war in the entire Middle East are high. Israel has already attacked several sites in Lebanon, Yemen and Syria, suspecting hideouts of anti-Israeli militant outfits and also the nuclear sites of Iran. Tehran has designated Israel as the enemy and threatened to eliminate Israel from...