it might be worthwhile to mention about "kurchi kanda" in nepal. just after some yrs of his taking into PM's office, girija created some problem because he didnt have a suitable (that "fits his status") chair in one of the public program... and that was widely taken as kurchi kanda... i hope someday we will have PMs (and/or presidents???) and ministers not because they lead some batallions to get the type of system they fought fo, but because they had good grades in their university lives.