It seems to me that Ashuji, an excellent, responsible and articulate writer who perceives things with different prospective than most of us do, may have hastily commented this time around with insufficient homework. My use of two terms 'hastily' and 'insufficient homework' is to indicate that 1) He is commenting on a book which he has not read yet (assuming that being a columnist/journalist/social activist and physically present in Nepal, he would have been able to have access to the book). 2) He wrote.. I just heard from Narayan himself, who accepted my congratulations. I now understand that Nepalaya, the publisher, submitted copies of the novel to Madan Puraskar Guthi MONTHS before the book's formal launch in Kathmandu in July... He could have waited to hear from Wagle! (I am not sure if Ashuji skepticism in Sajha compelled Wagle to respond to Ashuji! if that is the case, i think it brought an important outcome about timing, i.e. answer to his question Number 1). Having commented on being hasty and presumably insufficiency in homework, his skepticism is not something that is incomprehensible. Nut