I congratulate Anjana for her success story but after reading this piece of news and comments, I got a feeling that we have a culture (?) of advertising self or attempting to win fake popularity by some false claims. No doubt, her story has lost weight by the added spices in the news - the false claim to be first blah blah. We all know that everybody in the world can have something to claim to be the first in the world, which is not necessarily be important unless it comes with a proven and significant impact to human and society. The media and reporters in Nepal often run on surface. About two years ago, a friend of mine was comparing my bio-data with some others who were described in an issue of Nepal, published by kantipur team. He was saying my bio-data was better than a few of those mentioned in the magazine. I understand I am not a great person because I know many others from Nepal who have done far better than me but they are not known either to nepalese media. Nepalese reporters put little effort to gather information, they hurry to publish, and mostly they tend to pick their relatives and / or peoples they are familiar with. In my short stay in Nepal, few reporters came to meet me after they knew about me. They were describing me how to apply self-promoting tactices and capitalize lucrative positions in Nepal by using media and connection of media persons. They were even talking about political connections, connections to some established INGOs and peoples dominating the news media. These people were luring me to spend money and were watering their mouth for tips and commission. They proposed me for a full page congratulation advertisement and front page news cover with detailed biography. This was a complete collapse of my faith on the news of success stories in nepalese media. Some reporters gave me examples how others had used similar tactices to put them in the frontline; how people called and payed reporters for publishing their interview; how anxiously they ran door to door of media houses with their bio-data for publishing a small coverage and so on. But, I did not like those ideas at all. I refused to involve myself in such foul tactics for winning a fake popularity. I could not agree with them and with their ill-fated practices in the nepalese media. I chose not to appear in the news media rather than having sponsered / purchased popularity with exaggerated claims if not false. Perhaps, my short experience might tell you some aspect of nepalese media and why genuine intellegent people are away from them. It seems this has been a good business in the media and self-apraising society for a long time.