I enjoy Sangraula's pieces. They are always entertaining. All his pieces share: an unimitable style and a mixture of facts with fiction lumped against (a rotating cast of) villains the his readers in his side of the gallery can laugh at and feel smug about. In other words, truth be damned! Let supposed literary entertainment reign supreme! Playing to the gallery and getting the wah-wah is all that it counts. Nothing wrong with all that, really -- so long as readers know what they are getting. Indeeed, when some readers dared challenge the truth of some of Sangraula's pieces in the pages of Kantipur, Sangraula famously retorted, "I am a fiction writer. I approach my newspaper columns in the same spirit . . . the spirit of writing sahitya." Even lesser mortals, I would think, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez or V S Naipaul -- who have written BOTH fiction and non-fiction -- would be wary about making such grand statements. But in Nepal, as long as the politics is shared, the means of how one reaches certain conclusions, is often immaterial. Finally, Sangraula writes: "मेरो विचारमा १२ बुँदे समझदारी अशान्तिलाई न्यायपूर्ण शान्तिमा फेर्ने एक विचारशील र साहसिक फड्को हो । यो जनस्तरीय बृहत् मोर्चाको शिलान्यास हो ।" Amen to that! Meantime, let us now wait for the Nepali Supreme Court issue another verdict soon: The re-instatement of the parliament . . . a decision, let me not laught at this, the Honorable Court (composed of king-appointed judges) will reach after hours of deliberations!! oohi ashu