Ashudai,

Considering that I am still not plagued by Alzheimer, I recall a similar thread originated by you not too long ago. While I was deeply sorry about whole incident and was exceedingly critical about the extremely partisan yet combative unionism in Nepal, I also realized that I had debased myself to merely being a grouch. What I find more amusing is; a person of your stature has become one too, especially only when such circumstances have surfaced in your own fringes.  Talk is cheap, I know, I cannot possibly imagine myself in your situation, no wonder I’d be petrified. But then you are not me Ashudai. Being a prominent figure of one of the leading journals in Nepal, you should have seen the writing on the wall well ahead of time. Pardon my audacity, but after reading between your lines, I am obliged to say that you are desperately seeking vetoes from anonymous sajha users against maoist -influenced trade unions (if they are at all) - which is more or less like shooting blanks. However, I could very well relate with you in gleaning kudos if it assuages your trepidation to some extent. The upshot of that fateful incident must have been horrific.

Before I rant further, I have few questions for you? Why did you wait so long to start this thread when these incidents occur almost everyday? Did you just scream bloody murder because you assumed it could never happened to a Harvard laureate like you? Now that you just survived an attack does it make you more special than other victims in the past?

Perhaps my allegations are wrong; perhaps I must have completely misconstrued the purpose of your thread. But help me here, I found enough room for criticism. Again, as a media ambassador that you are, I would have wanted you to present a model that could possibly negate such socialist uprisings (if they are leftists at all, proclaiming oneself Maoist can bring back any hoodlum’s heyday). What you delineated in your thread is something we already know.  Tell us something new.

I did not want to muddy the water, the respect remains intact.