I have always been perplexed by Bharat Dutta Koirala. Let me NOT be misunderstood. I like him as a person. Three years ago, he won one of Asia's Nobel Prizes -- The 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts. His Magsaysay citation read, in part, "When a democratic revolution overtook Nepal in 1990, Koirala played an important role in the transition to greater press freedom." OK. Mind you, that role came only four years after his leaving as the Chief of Gorkhapatra, where practiced "a heavy dose of self-censorship". His citation further reads: "As Koirala says of community radio stations, they are "helping create a free, independent, and pluralistic media and promoting public debate in our democracy." -http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationKoiralaBha.htm Against this backdrop, the question is this: Now that press freedoms are gone in Nepal and now that community radio stations are under censorship, can stalwarts such as Koirala afford to stay quiet and do nothing? Just asking. oohi ashu