Pire,

Your saying "I don't know how "up there" are you, but surely, you are quite up there in Nepal" muddies the water unnecessarily.  

What matters is NOT the fact that rajabaadis are saying "khucching!", or that how wealthy or poor or connected or disconnected someone is in Nepal.

These are all irrelevant details, which when cast in dubiously personal terms against named individuals in public only prejudice one set of readers against another for no reason.

Surely, in these polarised times, we need less of this type of "us versus them" thinking, no? 

And just because others engage in this sort of divisive thinking, you, of all people, need not give in to that temptation in public, just to score a point with or vent your anger at rajabaadis. 

What matters, IMHO, is this:

- That Nepalis -- whoever they are -- peacefully going about their work in their private offices in Nepal should NOT be beaten up by anyone. 

Perhaps, Himal's case was a tipping point, around which  those in other industries -- media, manufacturing, banking, etc -- will come together to say, "enough is enough, and let us run our companies legally in ways so that we can make a profit so that we can continue to produce goods and services and provide jobs to people."

Maybe, that tipping point has not been reached yet, and that more struggle is needed ahead.

At this point, we don't know which is which, and we'll have to see how things unfold in days ahead. 

Meantime, let's take one day at a time so that the basic freedom of all Nepalis to live, work and travel in Nepal without fear is stable at all times, and that disputes are settled in a court of law and not through blows and kut-peet.

Surely. we can expect to press for THAT MUCH freedom in our present-day loktantra, regardless of where one's political sympathies lie, hoina ra?

oohi

ashu