Goodness me madam, that was pretty quick as always. Procrastinating is my forte but the reverse applies to your case - fast, furious and always with the usual dose of your formidable wit. Blimey, I am finding it hard to keep pace ke - come on, where's me' can o Red Bull! :-) Yes, I do indeed know. That you are brutally frank and honest. Oh yes. And brutally accurate too in hitting the nail on the head - I know, it did on someone's head above really massively. Ouchh... or is that aaiyaa! :-) A true 'marksman' rather, in my mil parlance! Your wit to stay resolutely put in the face of charging counter-logics in discussions amazes me to the point of bewilderment - it's quite beyond any description. No joking here mind you. No wonder you're law-trained eh. A would-be QC, no? Or whatever they call it there in Amrikaa. "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." An all too typical Nepali mindset there - nothing else and I abhor it doubtless as much as you do. I abhor the way people tend to easily present their cosy assumptions on one as a fact, purely based on the loose premise that one's family background/naataa gotaa spoke a great deal about one's success. Very disheartening that is to find when one goes on to define the other's creative works in such a sweepingly unfair, broad-brush terms. Are we to assume that Manjushree would not have been what she is if it were not for her father and his supposedly high profile public standing. How else will it fit with the case of other 'Manjushrees' then? Take for instance that of Paarijaat. She had no influential 'aafno maanchhe' as far as I know or certainly had no intention of using one as a short cut to further her literary ambitions and she obviously sported no such famous surnames viz Rana, Shah or even Thapa. Yes, she has doubtless worked hard to reach where she is now - not anyone's cup of tea, mind you. Her success must be gauged purely on personal merit rather than anything else. So you know her or have met her in person. Gleaming. I'd better close for the day - I have this little fever to take care of. A few CETAMOLS will do just fine. G'nite.