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Kathmandu,Saturday January 22, 2000 Magh 08th, 2056.
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OFF THE BEAT
Showing work
This scribe was never convinced with
them when a bunch of men clad in blue-jersey tried to give him the impression the other
day that the customs office in Kathmandu was shifted to open streets. But for your kind
information, it was just true. So don’t ask further question when local cops demand
to open your bags, including the purse and a toffee pack you may be carrying home for your
kids from one of your brief shopping errands outside your own houseyards. On Thursday
evening, those blue cops were busy doing the same at New Baneshwar Crossroads. Guess how
much they might have added to the public revenue. -(CK)
Hollow claims
Working on a newspaper desk, this
scribe is sometimes impelled to make a review of news coming on different dates in the
past. One of the topics featuring recurrently is the concern over the Bhutanese refugees.
UML’s KP Oli was claiming to resolve the issue as back as five years ago. Foreign
Minister Dr RS Mahat has claimed to do the same within a month now. I for one claim the
real solution is not forthcoming unless ministers complete the cycle of hollow claims in
this regard. What say you? -(KC)
Charismatic Kedia
Give him anything and he is going to
give you something in return. Controversial businessman Shankarlal Kedia is known to be
allegedly involved in ISI activities. He is keeping in close touch with Pakistan.
But what is common in Kedia’s
active involvement in education and terrorism? Perhaps he can only unearth it. If not,
give him some more time and see Kedia ko charismatic karishma! -(DPR)
Wagging tail
Any one
expecting change in government, please take note that the KP’s tail is wagging
superbly in the current “trying” series. The contest is between veteran batsman
(ask Ms AK) and someone who got out hit wicket once (1994) and had to pack up before the
innings got underway the second time around (Koirala had to leave the field open to KP
after the elections). Fielders (Deuba and others), if I need to tell, are people who drop
catches and throw matches. With crowd impatient and umpires yet to come to decision, the
outcome stands wide open.-(DL)
Mum Manisha
A leading
Indian journal a few days ago published the century’s 100 sexiest women. I’ve
nothing to say on the list ranging from Madhubala to Madhuri and Priyanka to Indira
Gandhi. But one name -- that of Manisha Koirala -- in the list has kept me agape. Are our
big bros so possessed by Manisha magic that they have even forgotten Manisha belongs to
Nepal? Even surprising is that so far Manisha has kept mum about the issue.- (ASH)
Yet to learn?
The recent
Indian media hype has not awakened CAN. With such embarrassing match conclusions, the
country’s only cricket association seems to have pulled backward the local media here
to its pell-mell standard. Can’t you sports persons stop depending upon steroids
provided by such media?
It’s
high time we stopped believing on TV channels, especially when the Indian Ambassador to
Nepal has started to claim his model of TV is different from others. What say you CAN?
-(SJS)
Whither match fixing?
Both are not
in sound health. PM KP Bhattarai and ML leader Bamdev Gautam are said to be ill, thanks to
the weather.
But whether
it is natural weather or political weather that has brought them to bed is to be seen.
Why is it
then other parties are doing good? There is something hidden in it. Or is it that the two
are in the look out of some match fixing?- (DJ)
Surprise packet
The much
awaited ‘surprise packet’ of Sports Minister surprised everyone but did not make
anybody happy. Hold on! The real surprise from the minister is yet to come. Now that he
has decided to act in a movie, that too as a villain, is certainly a bigger surprise but
again may not be for all those SAF awardees who consider him a real villain. But watching
him getting beaten by silver screen heroes may provide them with a sense of poetic
justice.-(AP)
Wrong choice
Actor-turned-producer
Bhuban KC is in to feature Culture minister Sarat Singh Bhandari as a villain in his
upcoming venture, Superstar. The ageing ‘playboy’ (as his first wife once
announced publicly) is sure to present himself and his second wife in this new venture’s
lead roles. But one thing Bhuban did not take into consideration is that if he could hire
the House-in minister BB KC, it would have been much better. The latter’s experience
in breaking into woman’s houses would prove an added asset for him. What do you
think? (LYNX)
Attention!
The arrest
of Indian cops initially sounded as if the Nepal cops had arrested dreaded terrorists or
operatives about to launch another offensive within a fortnight of IC-814 drama. But it
did not take long to learn that they were “renegade” railway cops blissfully
ignorant of terrain. But is it the end of the story in real connotation of the word? The
arrest should be exciting to the people who have failed to smell the presence of a
terrorist and litter of lamas, who hijacked a plane and sneaked into India, respectively.
May Pashupatinath bless us all! -(DB)
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