Wednesday, February 15, 2006

N.P.UPADHYAYA

My own experience in the media sector forces me to conclude that my profession is a naughty one. It is in the sense that we the people in this sector at times construct a hill out of a mole. We at times explore the impossible and the unbelievable ones. Though some might disagree but this is a fact. The tragedy has been that the readers have to bear with whatever we write or present to their perusal.

However naughty we might be, at the end of the game our pious duty is to inform and bring out the things that so far have remained in the dark. We expose and in the process at times get exposed as well. This happens after all we too belong to the same society wherein we all live. The impact of the existing society can't be avoided.

Talking of our naughty analysis, one such interpretation has come from a media house that claims so many probable about the place of the interview wherein Comrade Prachanda could have been interviewed by two competent editors in Kathmandu recently.

The weekly maintains that since both the top hats of the Maoists' party have used Woolen Pullovers at time of the interview, it becomes clear that wherever the tête-à-tête has been conducted should be a place where the winter season is at its best. By corollary, the media says that the place chosen for the interview thus can't be the terai plains.

The weekly further says that since the two rebel leader appear seated in a comfortable Sofa, generally made in terai belts and imported to Katmandu r for that matter the urban areas, the place where the interview was managed could not be a remote area of the country plus the house with this sofa can in no way be described as a "shelter".

Thirdly, the weekly goes on to say that Prachanda's hair looks like that he has well taken care of his hair with a Shampoo. His growing beard tells that Prachanda is now in a mood to grow beard.

Similarly, Dr. Bhattarai appears all beaming at time of the interview whose hair have been well combed and his growing moustache does tell that he is all set to remain in a fresh mood ever. With these in the background, the weekly adds, the interview in no way could have been conducted in a remote west village as is being given to understand.

The weekly thus continues that since such Sofa brought from the Terai plains were much in use in Kathmandu so the interview might have been arranged right here in Kathmandu.

Finally the weekly adds that these factors get supported if one were to take in to account a recent Police HQ circular distributed for internal consumption wherein it was stated that some top-hats of the rebels could well have entered Katmandu already.

The weekly, Jan Manch, claims that the paper itself had broken the news of such an arrival of the top hats of the party in Kathmandu some weeks ago.

Whether or not the claims made by the said weekly are correct, nevertheless, the analyses presented by the said weekly are simply superb.

After all they are naughty boys. I guess Prachanda would have laughed reading such mind-boggling guess-works.

The enigma as to where Prachanda was interviewed continues till to day. Enigmatic as it is, the enigma takes a new and surprising dimension when one knows through a separate newspaper which claims that Prachanda and his colleagues were housed right here in Kathmandu in a private residence of an ex-military high ranking official.

The enigma becomes more enigmatic with such an authoritative claim and that too by a widely circulated and well read paper.