Dear Sarita Thapajee, Thanks once again for your affable attitude towards students, teachers and staffs of KU. We are really grateful to you that you have recognized their contributions in shaping up the KU. Obviously, their contributions are recognized because these contributions are devoid of ulterior motives. They all want to work, study and teach there in KU while dazzling the name of KU. It is a matter of great pride for the KU fraternity that many amongst them have been able to prove themselves as trailblazers. This has been possible largely because they were taught to work hard, with honesty and integrity and they too translated whatever they were taught into concrete reality. However, the same thing cannot be said about the coming graduates of KU as they are silently learning that to succeed in life what one needs to have powerful, corrupt and nepotistic parents. In terms of KU, they are likely to presume that to be a successful in one’s life, one has to have father and uncles as Registrar and VC respectively. This is so because they have learnt that despite incompetence, and inefficiency one can get easy chances of studying abroad for both the masters and PhD’s if they are lucky to have Registrar and VC as their guardians. With such lessons given by KU setup, I am wondering what effect it will have on their formative minds. And this detestable environment is set up in KU by none other than VC and registrar themselves. When they took initiative to provide leadership in KU, people thought that an egalitarian leadership is emerging in academic area of Nepal. Everybody, at that time, whole-heartedly supported them. Moreover, they were praised and lauded openly because everybody believed that they would develop an impartial, fair, totally academic organization, which is free of corruption, nepotism, and despotism. So, at that time, No body thought that these two gentlemen would put the University at the service of powerful people, turn it into a certificate issuing organization for the limited number of offsprings of powerful people and even collaborate with the palace to perpetuate their reign in KU and ultimately turn KU into family fiefdom. What was appreciation for the great initiation initially has by now turned into widespread boos because Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary have given birth a monstrosity called greed for eternal power. There would now be few people who would claim that Suresh Raj Sharma is an academician. People now prefer to refer to him as administrator because his promotion of nepotism in KU, his jettisoning academic values at the altar of his insatiable greed for power has now left no doubt that his initiatives for establishing KU was solely for self-promotion. Now nobody is under his spell to believe in his false promises that there will be equitable organization in Nepal. In return of their innocent faith and belief, what people got is an organization heavily infested with Sharma and Adhikary clan and where family members are promoted at the cost of values, ethics, morality and spirit of academia. This is the reason why people now consider Suresh Raj Sharma as a master manipulator, Machiavellian thug, academic fraud and glib charlatan. Now, tell me how can we respect this person despite knowing very well that his cruel, heinous, and murderous act against the academia of Nepal is going to stagnate the development of academic sector for some time to come. No conscientious person would ever respect this man called Suresh Raj Sharma and he also knows it very well. Consequently, he has moved into PR overdrive by mobilizing all his contacts who were unduly benefited by his reign in KU to salvage his image and he has exhorted everyone of his contacts to start pleading in public forum that everybody needs to respect Suresh Raj Sharma. Yeah, Suresh Raj Sharma will be respected now onwards only by his vigilantes, sycophants and some parasites. Now regarding nepotism charges, there is no doubt that it is 100% true. All the students are aware how registrar and VC groomed their relatives in KU. First they would employ their relatives, sons and daughters as some kind of trainee. In the process, they would try to get their progenies familiarize themselves with the system of KU. Meanwhile, both Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary systematically sound out all others responsible positions like Dean, HODs and Incharges of their desires of having these relatives in KU. Since nobody is in position to go against the wishes of VC and registrar, everywhere, be it the selection committee or be it at the interview, these offsprings of VC and registrar are automatically qualified. In nut shell, VC and registrar uses their good offices to influence everybody in KU to hire their sons, daughters and other relatives as faculty members, and managers in KU. In addition, if needed, they can even manipulate or change basic norms/regulations like lower ceiling of required percentage for entrance into certain course, or indispensable eligibility criteria for entrance into academia as a teacher. After making systematic changes for inducting their relatives, they finally claim that everything is honky dory in KU. They exclaim that they have few relatives in KU and their inductions in KU were also conducted in usual manner by the usual selection committee. While making these claims, it is true that they would have altered those decisions, which were effected simply for the purpose of inducting their sons, daughters and other relatives in KU. Since KU is run with iron fist, they are in position to make every change and still come clean. This is why everybody is claiming that Nepotism is systematic in KU. And everybody knows that everything that is so systematic gives an impression to an outsider as a logical approach. And then the outsiders starts making demands like let us look into vita, qualifications and so on. On the other hand, VC and registrar can never escape their moral culpability and they are likely to be caught red handed. This has happened once earlier also, when they, I think VC, started bragging on his meeting with chairman of Infosys Narayana Murthy. Yeah, at that time when VC was going eloquent on his meeting with Narayana Murthy, then one teacher quipped him, “Sir, what is the best quality of Narayana Murthy?” Then, VC, Suresh Raj Sharma, “Of course, it’s his vision to have world class software company,” The teacher, ”No, it is the good foundation of Infosys which prevents induction of one’s relatives in Infosys” That teacher had unfailingly delivered the message that nepotism destroys organizations and because of that Narayan Murthy always despised such practices in Infosys. Moreover, by that interaction, the concerned teacher told Suresh Raj Sharma in unequivocal terms what is ailing KU and why he should not consider himself at par with Narayana Murthy. However, VC listened but did not speak because he knew that he could never be like Narayana Murthy as he has been blatantly destroying academic foundation of KU. Therefore, even Suresh Raj Sharma knows that he is spreading Nepotism in KU and there is no confusion about its existence in KU. Now, when there is nepotism in KU and Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary are running KU with their nepotism Party, it is natural that they object to ordinary Nepalese challenging them at their own citadel. And whenever someone challenges this Nepotism party of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary, they start passing on different traits to the challenger. They start labeling that challenger as belonging to NC, UML, CPI(M) and, they claim that that challenger is trying to do politics in KU. In their definition, however much nepotism, unhealthy practices they resort to by establishing their nepotistic family group in KU, it is OK because their actions can never be questioned. But, if some other faculty member starts speaking; it will be branded as politics. For them, their own family party alone should rule KU and no other person should come forward in KU. This is the vicious mindsets of Suresh Raj Sharma and Sitaram Adhikary that they see rise of saner voices as politics in KU while their unpardonable blunders would be touted as indispensable dutiful work. Therefore, everybody must know that the teachers, who are alleged to be linked with NC, CPN-UML or even CPN-M, is never resorting to any politicking in KU. Neither any student is doing politics in KU. Therefore, no student or teacher is responsible for slow deterioration of academic values in KU. The only politics that is responsible for putting KU slowly on deathbed is the politics of Sharma and Adhikary family, which espouses nepotism as a sole driving principle in KU. Destroy Nepotism in KU!