Yes. The starting line of one sentence is: "To his detractors, and they are legion, Dhamala . . . But the posting ALSO said: See the EXACT QUOTE below: START "In the last six years Reporters’ Club Nepal has invited even the most inaccessible and media shy public figures for the pleasure of being grilled by Kathmandu’s hacks. Controversial political leaders, timid bureaucrats, diplomats, ministers and prime ministers from home and abroad have all gone through the wringer. Dhamala says his job is symbiotic: the journalists get access to figures they could not otherwise interview, and his guests get to talk to the entire press corps at one go. Whatever one may say about his abrasive style and self-publicity, Dhamala is self-made. He was jailed for hawking anti-Panchayat newspapers when he was just a high school student. The 30-year-old political science graduate was a full-time journalist until he founded Reporters’ Club six years ago." END QUOTE Point of this? If one wants to focus ONLY on the EXTREME sides of a person's personality, then, one will soon be writing nasty things about one's parents too. After all, who is perfect? No one is. And that's fine. As a reader, I tolerate Dhamala's 'extreme behaviour' so long as they do NOT get in the way of -- and rather add to -- his doing this much-needed job of getting all sorts of people to come together in Kathmandu to talk publicly on issues of national importance. Dhamala is a maverick; an eccentric; he does not follow the established rules and well-laid-down scripts written by others for him. He seems to make his own rules and does whatever he wants to do and is prepared to live with the consequences. How refreshing!! oohi ashu