Dear Sarita Thapa jee, Thanks for your points of views. I too like to support your feelings that KU is a good institution and there is no doubt about it. Why KU is good institution is because of self-financing students and majority of teachers who are regularly doing their jobs. Yeah, I am saying “majority of teachers” only because not all the teachers or 100% of them are doing their job properly. Teachers are frustrated in KU because there is no policy to check those teachers who wantonly throw away academic values and engage themselves in teaching outside. If all the teachers behave like these teachers, who happen to be closest relatives of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary, then I am damn sure that KU would fall into such condition that no body, including your brother, would say that KU is a good institution. Therefore, KU is good institution, despite having such academic thugs who are earning lots of money without fear as they enjoy patronage of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sita Ram Adhikary. And this “good institution” tag has been made possible because of sheer hard work of all other respected teachers who happen to be daughters and sons of Nepali and who are in no way related to Sharma and Adhikari. Thanks for recognizing the efforts of all these teachers by repeating that KU is a good institution. Please try again, I hope you will find yourself amongst such dutiful teachers in KU. What you heard about KU like "friendly/family hiring" is true and even if you have some connections, I am damn sure that your appointment is a foregone conclusion. What is the most important issue in getting appointment in KU is not your caliber, your enthusiasm for teaching or your interest to pursue academic activities, but your connections with some insiders and your readiness and interests to bear servile attitude towards Sharma and Sitaram for life. Yeah, you are right that there are few organizations in Nepal where nepotism, and all other –isms are not present. We cannot deny that. And we cannot keep on such cancerous tumors. Then, there comes the question where should we begin the clean-up program? – In my opinion, this should start from Educational sector. For instance, in a bank, if nepotism and favoritism were present, these would remain within the organization and may spread to some other banks only if we believe that such practices in one bank induces managements of other banks. However, if it is allowed to grow and sustain in academic organizations, it is likely that it would spread like wildfire and may affect each and every organization of Nepal. I am saying so because I believe that each student of KU who graduates from KU not only carries the formal education he/she has earned in KU but also the informal education imparted to him/her by the nepotistic administrative & academic set-up of KU. Since the students acquire education cognitively also, we should not have NEPOTISM in KU any longer, as it is likely to pollute young and innocent minds, which will have to decorate various organizations both in and outside Nepal. Educating our students in such vicious atmosphere of Nepotism is, therefore, preparing future Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary who would make it a habit to turn every organization into a family business. Therefore, for god’s sake, let us start dismantling this vestige of nepotism in situ before it spreads to all other organizations in Nepal. For the very reason of its being such an influencing institute, we have to single out KU and subject it to strongest ever dose of anti-nepotism by making perpetrators of Nepotism pay the price for such mindless system in any academic organization. Only after this, it will matter of factly establish itself as a pioneering institution that can change both our educational direction and value system. We must keep some perspective here friends, and we should not get carried away be some so called big names who are making mockery of the whole educational system of Nepal. On the other hand, for initiating a healthy debate on the current state of affairs in KU, the present faculties tried a lot. Similarly, when the faculties went to dean, registrar and vice-chancellor to give their opinions on variety of issues, they were accused of politicking and were asked to resign immediately. Never before in any organization, some administrators have resorted to such naked partisan and cruel treatment of faculty members that they need slightest reasons to persecute the faculties. For instance, some of the ex-faculties who were ready to honor their contracts were shamelessly dragged into the courts despite their readiness to pay back whatever they owe to KU as a contractual obligation. This simply shows that Suresh Raj and Sita Ram would never let go a single chance of mercilessly looking down upon the faculty members of KU. Moreover, it is their pastime to resort to name calling game for the faculties and one mistake they would start blasting the faculties. Now, what to talk about their blatant attempts to assassinate the characters of highly dignified faculty members. Therefore, everybody should know that just because it did not come to their notice, they should not misconstrue that Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary are saints and all other teachers are sinners. It must be emphasized that it is these two administrators who are resorting to name calling games by giving unjustified and objectionable epithets to the victimized faculty members. Moreover, when all the responsible officials of KU are maintaining extremely abusive, threatening and insensitive attitude towards everyone who is concerned about the future of KU and who are trying to help saner voices prevail in KU, it is imperative that like minded people come to open and start discussing everything in front of everyone. Therefore, given such ruthless structure and despotic mindsets of VC and registrar, there would never be any healthier approach than approaching a broadsheet and speak whatever injustices are heaped on KU, future of KU, and faculties of KU. This is in no way petty and low, rather courageous and stands out as symbol of righteousness. Regarding barrage of letters and accusatory writings, it should be made clear that these letters were not pointed at defaming anybody. These are just to point out anomaly in one of the influential academic sectors. The faculties there, being associated with academia for a long time, too have a knack for what is good and what is bad for KU. Moreover, when the same students who were taught by themselves starts bossing around them just because they happen to be daughter, sons, and nephews of Sharma and Adhikary, it is natural on the part of the faculties to point out these anomalies. These are anomalies because the people who are now bossing around are not qualified to do so academically and administratively as well. And the only power they have comes from their blood relation. If any organization were to be molded or likely to be molded in such abhorable model, then every conscientious faculty would stand up and call a spade a space. The nepotism is opposed in KU not because all other faculties are incompetent. They are opposing nepotism in KU because incompetent people are being unduly promoted. Now regarding who sent letter, every body must know the truth that there is only one former employee who sent a letter to a publication. Most of other dispatchers are still employed in KU itself and they have done it because they could no longer remain mute witness to daylight murder of academic values in KU by the forces of Nepotism. Therefore, trying to paint the whole episode, as a fight between bad employee and good administrators, is also a part of the propaganda of KU administrator Sharma and Adhikary. So far, they have named some of the faculties who have left KU. However, KU administrators, Sharma and Adhikary, have such a deep-seated grouse against the faculties that they would give any name to any other faculty who take on them face to face. Therefore, misleading stories of Sharma and Adhikary should not sway us. Rather we should look at the truth and honesty of the faculty members to find out whose dealings are fishy? Is it the administrator duo who are hell bent in promoting Nepotism or a faculty member who is ready to bear all the expenses? No body has ever claimed that serving for nine-years should be the sole criteria for promotion or retention in academic field. It is the question of equality. Why certain faculty members alone are provided opportunities to go for higher education on KU arranged scholarships and why other faculties are not provided the same opportunity? Why Sitaram sends his sons for Ph.D. after every two years on full salary paid leave and why not does he send other teachers? Sharma and Adhikary have formulated these draconian provisions with ulterior motives. First they would promise all the faculties that they would be treated equally. Then, they would linger on the issues of other teachers’ going for higher education while silently sending their own progenies for higher education. In the meantime, when their sons and daughters earn degree abroad, they would run the university with the same lot of teachers who are yet to upgrade themselves on qualifications. And finally when their sons and daughters are in possession of requisite qualification and come back to the institute, they fire all other faculties so that these faculties would not bring up inconvenient issues of seniority and uniformity and oppose blatant but systematic promotion of nepotism in KU. Could there be any more instance of systematic exploitation of human sensitivity, feelings and dedication than what is happening in KU? Therefore, if Sitaram and Sharma were not interested to promote other Nepali’s sons and daughters in KU, they should have told them so at the earliest. In that case no body would have ever complained. Moreover, if any University, which is fountainhead of knowledge, cannot ensure equality in treatment of the faculties, how can it effectively preach about honesty, ethics, and equality to all the students? Therefore, to cover up their inability of maintaining organizational equity, KU administrators Sharma and Adhikary are now spreading rumors that these teachers are really incompetent and therefore they have no option but to fire them. As a matter of fact, Sharma and Adhikary grossly destroyed the faith academic administrators are generally supposed to nurture amongst the members of the academic fraternity. By hitting all the faculties below the belt, they have shown that to capture KU and turn it into their family fiefdom, they can go to any extent. They can make false promise, they can incorporate impractical clauses in KU statute, they can remain blind towards inefficiencies of their progenies, they can clandestinely approve of numerous study visits for their progenies and they can ultimately kick on the stomach of the families of honest, and diligent teachers by making such dutiful teachers jobless. Similarly, to prevent opposition to their highhandedness, ruthlessness and nepotism, they have been consistently keeping all the faculties always divided. Sometimes, they put up one faculty against another. Sometimes, they resort to inducements and sometimes they resort to intimidation. Having witnessed their tricks for a long time, the faculties of KU have ultimately decided to form their own association so that arbitrariness of Sharma and Adhikary can be checked. With a strong teachers association, it is likely that Sharma and Adhikary would never be able to exercise their monopoly in KU, as they will have to bow down before the legitimate demands of all the faculty members. And to paralyze this move of the teachers, they are picking some conflict theories and circulating the current problems in KU around as the conflict between the labor and management. They are claiming that teachers represent labor side and they want a raise in salary. Nonsense! This is open to everyone that teachers of KU think that they are also the stakeholders of KU and they have every right to have their say in KU administration both in Executive Council and in the Senate. They are not simply demanding raise in salary, they are demanding their right to decide the academic atmosphere of KU so that academic sanctity can be restored and nepotism can be wiped out from KU. Now, regarding the language, however big he may be, he must know that he could be criticized in harshest terms for such blatant promotion of Nepotism in Kathmandu University. When King Gyanendra was not spared, who the hell Suresh Raj Sharma is? Therefore, only those who are directly or indirectly benefited by their past or present association with Suresh Raj Sharma would blindly overlook gross nepotism Suresh Raj Sharma is presiding over in KU. For all other faculty members who believe that there should be rule of law, systematic procedure and prominence of ability, it is natural that they dislike Suresh Raj Sharma and use strongest terms to criticize this academic charlatan. Therefore, Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram are villain by their spread of nepotism in Kathmandu University. People are terming them as villain only because their designs are slowly destroying academic environment of KU while vitiating your impressionable minds of the students. If these two thugs are not removed from KU, it is sure that KU would become worse than some other colleges in Bihar. Thus, it is high time that every body wakes up from their slumber and give their contributions for forming an investigation committee to look into the affairs of KU. Only this way, KU can be saved and this budding institution can avoid looming crisis. Save KU!