Dear PaankopatJi: Thanks for the long writing on nepotism. I am not joking but, I think NC cadres should read this and go after Girija and clean the NC party. It applies to NC party 100%. It would have solved our problem a long time ago and we would not have seen the maoists problem. We should also go after the nepotism stuff in NGOs. It is pretty bad there too. My own relative runs two different NGOs with a big time family network. Back to KU: One of many disputes at KU perhaps, but the accusatory letter written by Mr. Bhatta in TKP represents a typical situation that was well too common in Nepal. 1. Teacher A comes to US with some scholarship (TA,RA,Fulbright,Humphry); 2. Asks for study leave and gest salary for 2/3/4 years with the commitment that he/she would return to Nepal to serve the motherland. He/she writes that in the personal statement to get admissions. 3. Once the Talabi Bida is over starts asking for Betalabi Bida. 4. Towards the end of thesis writing time, starts applying for jobs in the US, and when the parent institution in Nepal begins to bug, resigns. 5. Those under Fulbright and other status run to Canada to kill that two/three years requirement. 6. Eventually gets lost in the lands of opportunity, and goes to Nepal as a tourist. What I am curious is, did Mr. Bhatta draw salary from KU while he was on a study leave in the US? Did he promise to return? Did he string out the stay in the US by several years and yet asked for Bida? Did he eventually say, no I am not coming? Was he fired for not fulfilling his end of the bargain? We do not know these details, so we should not pass any judgement neither on KU nor on Mr. Bhatta. Both should come clean on their explanation. The explanation of KU on Bhatta and Bhatta's explanation both are not very clean. I have been told that there is another letter in TKP by Mr. Bhatta. I have not read it. But, I don't know who is telling the truth. They should both go to court and settle it instead of doing it in the newspaper. ST