Posted by: Chip_of_the_OldBlock March 8, 2005
Kanak Dixit arrested
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Prem Dai, You must be thinking Himalayan Times as in "direct indian investment". Himal Media is also true, in an obscure kinda way. Kanak's great grand pop was Madan Shumshere's PA or Purohit. Madan Shumshere's wife, Jagadamba Maharani, came from Benares with a whole lot of priceless jewelry as her dowry. Dixits got all of Madan Shumshere's property as they didn't have children. But, Kanak's pop, Kamal Mani runs Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP),the principal archive of books and periodicals in the nepali language and also manages two of Nepal's most prestigious literary prizes, the Madan Puraskar and the Jagadamba Shree.
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