About Pushkar Shah
Puskar Shah was born in a stable. When Pushkar's mom was pregnent she was in her mom's house Gauri shankar village.It is two days walking from Pushkar's raised amidst the cornfields of Makaibari village Dolakha, Nepal. Doughter can not get new baby in mom's house in Nepalese culture. That's why Pushkar mom' was put in a stable. Puskar's father was in the Gurkha army, so he went to school in Assam till the fifth grade. He then studied in Kutidanda Nimna Madhyamik Vidhyala in his village Makaibari till seven. His father died in 1986 during a war with Bodos in Assam province of India. Puskar passed his SLC from Kalinchok Madhyamik Vidhyala in Charikot, and came to the valley for his further studies. That was when the popular moment started. "Everybody wanted democracy," Puskar recalls, "So did I." Puskar wanted it more than most of us, who got it cheap. He took part in demonstrations, meetings, hunger strikes and other activities planned out by the political parties that were fighting jointly for the purpose of throwing the Panchayat System from power and bringing in a multiparty democracy.
"He would sit for hunger strikes in Bhadrakali with his college friends. I wondered what he was fighting for? I used to be worried sick for him all the time. I now know that even if he had died fighting, it would have been for a good cause. It would have paid very well for the sake of the country and its people, though he didn't get anything personally," his mother Naram Kumari, at 48, is a warrior's widow and a warrior's mother.
Puskar was arrested and tortured numerous times by the authorities. They arrested the demonstrators, but released most of them soon due to lack of space. And the demonstrators were back in action from the very next day, campaigning, holding processions and demonstrating as per the appeal from political parties. Then Puskar got shot in his hand. He got some treatment with whatever support his family could give, none from any sector of the government. "I haven't received any relief from any sector as a political victim. It could be because I'm an independent person, not a party worker." People under the umbrella of political parties enjoy favoritism here. "People went to Australia for treatment without even getting a scratch or putting up a fight." Political leaders' children enjoyed the educational quotas meant for the movement victims. I didn't get any relief for the blood I shed."
However, Puskar did enjoy the popularity of being a living martyr for a while. Then gradually pictures began to fade away from the minds of the people. Things began to settle down and Puskar hunted for jobs to live hand to mouth. At such a time, the status of being a living martyr didn't help.
Now he feels incomplete. "I have not done anything for my country, family, no one. I'm jobless. I'm wasting away. So I thought why not utilize my time and see the world.
