Listen guys, For no reason and in a one-sided way, you attacked me in that "Narayan wins Madan" thread -- practically ruining that thread. You know this -- and everyone saw that, though most Nepalis, by nature, prefer to keep quiet even when they see injustice being done to others. [We Nepalis are great at railing against abstract sense of injustice; give us something specific to fight against, and we freeze... and that's the way we are!] But, anyway, what the hell was I supposed to do with your needless and irrelevant public attacks? Feel sorry for myself? Lash out at you? Keep quiet? Shrink away? Instead, I publicly reassured myself by posting that: "What does not kill you only makes you stronger". By that, I was saying: ALL your false attacks were NOT going to disturb me, and they have not. And that saying, BTW, is a WELL-KNOWN ookhan/statement/bhanai in English. Anyone can Google it and find out its source. What's more, I tried to humour the situation by further adding that attacking others needlessly and with ZERO evidence comes naturally to most Nepalis, and that those who aspire to some sort of a public position (from ward chariman to whatever else) must start getting used to coping with such attacks for they are part of the public territory in Nepal and among Nepali communities. But you were not satisfied. You needed another 'attack line'. That was why, you started jumping up and down and started accusing me of plagiarism for using that one-line well-known statement in a by-the-way manner here. NOW: Did I claim that that the statement was blindingly orginally mine? No. Did I make money by 'selling' that statement in this public forum? No. Did I use that statement to earn a grade of A for some Sajha paper? No. Did people really believe that I came up with that line myself? No. What I did was appeal to most people's general knowledge or their ability to Google stuff themselves if they were interested, used that statement and brushed aside your attacks. If you are not happy about it, well, tough luck. ***** Generally: If you put all the people who know you on some sort of a bell curve, there's ALWAYS going to be at least 5 per cent of those, at one end of the curve, who will NEVER like you no matter what you do and say. They will always -- often with ZERO evidence -- try to bring you down. Everyone has such 5 percent; and I have mine that includes these two gentleman. And that's life. End of this story. oohi ashu