Posted by: pire December 26, 2008
Himal Media Journalists attacked
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ashu,

Here is what I wrote... (and I have overall been supportive of you in this thread. It is just that this whole thread is filled with god damn royalists, ready to pounce at any chance to re-introduce raja-au-desh-banau slogan.)

"For the record, I think, Kunda Dixit/Ashutosh Tiwari were rarely hardcore democrats, unlike Kanak Dixit. At least, I never saw them in patrakar andolan in Kathmandu during king's rule. May be because they joined patrakarita later. I also think Kunda supported king's first speech --before he delivered his last speech in fear in baisakh 11-- in bbc or something like that. I remembering being pissed off at Kunda for that, especially since Kanak was in jail at the time. In my opinion, they always thought they were wealthy kids who could take any concept--democracy included-- as long as it benefitted them. They surely thought they were better than other ordinary poor patrakar and avoided hanging out with them...."

I mixed you and Kunda and said you are wealthy kids.. by wealthy, I don't know how "up there" are you, but surely, you are quite up there in Nepal. Your defense that "I would NOT be working full-time -- that too in Nepal, trying to earn a decently straightforward living by working six days a week" isn't true in Nepal where people are defined as poor not because they work six days a week as a CEO. However, god bless you for working six hours a day, fighting with the cut throat terrorists who have masked themselves as YCL, contributing to our country as a tax payer, but the truth remains that you hang out with the most powerful and wealthy people in Nepal, and the outcry that has followed rightnow wouldn't have followed had you been a patrakar in Kailali. Furthermore, I hardly believe Himalmedia is the most republican media house in the country--let's not wantonly use superlatives here, but I respect their work.

Don't want to digress too much, but anytime you write something here, the truth is most of the people who come out supporting you are also those who has wishful thinking of getting Gyanendra back. That's what pissed me off when I was reading all these threads. Nobody pisses me off more than those who has these thoughts.

Anyway, goodluck and stay safe. In one of these days, I will drop by at Himal Media house. One of your workers is my highschool friend... and who knows, I may apply for a patrakar job myself when there is an opening and work for you. Doesn't sound possible with the recent cuts, though.

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