“In all of these 20-plus years that Vijay has held center court in our Nepali Tellydom, how come the rest of Nepali society has FAILED to provide any legitimate competitors to him? “ I think that is a fair question to ask. In any case, I, for one, could do without seeing a day of the competition, or a copycat, in the styles of Vijay Kumar and Dhamala, which, in my opinion, will spare the Nepali journalism from breeding a wrong group of journalists –void of any modesty and self humiliation. The reason the type of Vijay Kumar and Rishi Dhamala thrives in our society is because do not go with the contents they hand over to us, we simply get mesmerized by who they are with. Lack of modesty is often times mistakenly taken as boldness. Take for example, the way our society looks upon a corrupt person. He is never condemned, rather held in respect because of or despite his ill gotten wealth. And the competition never ends to earn more through corrupt means. Unfortunately, many in the civil society and those who can write, in English as well as in vernacular, hold them in awe and fearful lest they be made a subject of their criticism. Right from the school, we have this superficial perception built in among some people just because one can speak and write English fluently, he or she is taken as an intellectual, no matter what a garbage one says or writes. And, on the question of why did we fail to provide competition? I agree 100% competition is good and we ought to ensure a level playing field and equal opportunity for all but that has been just a political talk. If you look around, in the end, it all boils down to a single point of political discussion being focused today that is “samaweshi”. Perhaps there lays the key to the competition question. Again, these are just my thoughts as a consumer...