TITTLE TATTLE

Tittle Tattle

Once firm on using the army to quell the Maoists, PM Koirala then suddenly took a 360 0 turn to say he wont. One political pundit observed it was ‘yes’ earlier and became ‘no’ after Foreign Minister Banstola returned from New Delhi. Some masala for thought!

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Knowing the dead cannot retaliate, a local vernacular stooped so low last week to character assassinate the deceased and the bereaved family. The trash-tabloid which claims to be the peoples hope ran story full of factual errors, the journal perhaps survives at the expanse of people’s tragedies. Height of yellow journalism, this. Wish the Press Council awakes from its deep slumber.

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Politicians are always blamed for passing the buck, but a colleague complained of how even professionals seem to be increasingly shifting responsibilities. “Ke garney, in Nepal, perhaps there is no difference between politicians and professionals,” he said with a resigned shrug.

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Jostles taking place when journalists go off on a jaunt is common, but now it is the women’s brigade that is scrambling to attend the Beijing Plus 5 meet in the Big Apple. There is already talk of how cronyism and nata bad are dominating on who the lucky ones will be to fly off to the US of A. Women’s empowerment will not be achieved if they themselves don’t unite, don’t you agree dear didis and bahinis?