Commandant, I think you know me well enough to know that I can be brutally frank :-)..hitting the nail on the head re! I don't like the fact that children in Nepal are always measured with what their parent's do or did. Manjushree's writing has very little to do with the Political/Civil Service history of her father and to put those two on the same spectrum is ,I think, inherently unfair to her. She is a writer who has worked hard at developing her prose. Her political ideas, I know, having had lenghty conversations with her, are far removed from those that Dr. Thapa subscribes to and I don't think there is any basis for a comparison between the two.