Sangraula is a wonderful writer, and a lovely human being. BUT It's just that some of us who know him personally and have followed his writings over a five-year period have long known -- and I have brought this up on Sajha several times with BOTH evidence and puzzlement -- that his sense of intellectual honesty (at least, in the way that phrase is defined on Western college/campuses) leaves much to be desired. Sangraula misquotes people, interprets events in a one-sided manner to serve his own political agenda, and then attacks his critics by calling them names. I call this sort of behaviour an entrenched hangover from Sangraula's days as "an underground communist" during the Panchayat days. (And, I might testily add, I see this sort of behaviour in Nepe too -- his charm and scientific credentials notwithstanding!) But Sangraula has displayed this sort of behaviour again and again in these relatively open times when his facts and his versions of the stories can be checked and re-checked. Those of us who actually RESPECT him wonder whether he thinks of his readers are idiots who are unable to exercise their brains. Still, his saving grace is that: he writes lucidly, in mitho, mitho, naram, ramro, chamro Nepali which can very seductively lull readers into believing what he is saying is the truth, when the REAL truth might be uncomfortably complicated. After all, as any good columist knows: The moment you play footsie with facts and the truth to trumpet your righteous-sounding views, your readers have less of a reason to believe you. oohi ashu