BY OUR DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

You must have heard many times of correction for an incorrectly printed material in a newspaper. But have you ever heard of a "correction" for a "misquoted" memoir being telecast live from a television channel? People's Review's last week's edition had published a revelation that PM G.P. Koirala himself made through his own voice and face regarding India's intelligence agency R&AW's involvement in the hijacking of the RNAC flight in 1973. As an old man, Koirala must have thought that bringing everything out about R&AW's influence in his life through the memoir being aired by Jagat Nepal in Kantipur TV will be a good contribution to the future generation of Nepalese. He has done this before regarding the then Indian Ambassador pestering Koirala about leaking what transcribed between Koirala and late King Mahendra so as to sabotage the budding relationship between the palace and the Nepali Congress back then. Hence, he said everything including secret things like his association with fake currency makers, smugglers of enriched uranium, etc. This was very correctly transcribed verbatim in the "Nepal" weekly magazine also.