Nepal, March 14 -- Jhapa has seen two major cultural events this month so far. Art & Literature Festival 2019 was held in Kakarbhitta from March 2-4. It was organised by Readers Jhapa. The other was a grand satsang (spiritual gathering) organised by Nepal Santmat Satsang at Khajurgachi, Gauriganj 6, from March 11-12. If you look at the roster of speakers at the Kakarbhitta festival, you will see that almost all of them were of hill origin (not a single Koch-Rajbanshi among them). And the issues it discussed were worldly, related to literature, free speech and exclusion, critical sense, class awareness, geopolitical reflection, oppression, rebellion, and cultural nationalism. In short, all related to the concerns of society and the state....