OK, now that my real work is completed, I can finally turn some attention to good ole Sajha.com. **** Nepe who's incapable of speaking ill of his personal and ideological friends no matter how many mistakes they commit while fully capable of twisting the words of those who disagree with his ideas and against whom he's prepared to throw a sense of fair play out of the window to ridicule them beyond recognition, grandlly pronounces that this piece published in Himal Khabar Patrika (HKP) is a "relatively comprehensive review" of Nepali music . . . compared to, well, what one normally gets on Sajha.com -- no doubt, a worthy rival of HKP! In this vein, next time, let's go a step further, and start comparing Sajha discussions on democracy to, well, articles appearing in where else but The Journal of Democracy! :-) **** With no offense to Anup, it's fair to say that HKP's editors in Nepal, who love to have their cover stories researched and written NOT by ordinary mortals known as mere journalists but by credential-wielding "social scientists" (who are supposed to give us a thoughtful interpretation of what's going on in our society) MISLED us readers by publishing what amounts to, to borrow own Anup's words, "a celebratory [aside: my undiplomatic phrase was: a rah-rah piece] rather than an openly critical piece" in the guise of 'social-science-for-masses'. I mean, HKP editors could have given the CONTEXT out of which this piece came out, and that would have been honest enough. Again, what happened was NOT Anup's fault. And my comments here add up to a suggestion to the editors not to raise their readers' expectations unnecessarily! That said, I thought that there is ENOUGH celebration about Nepali music and musicians in magazines such as NEPAL, KAMANA, AHA-SANGEET, BIMOCHAN and others. What is missing is a discussion of what this so-called resurgence of Nepali music means. oohi ashu