TITTLE TATTLE

TITTLE TATTLE

Lazimpath, another Thamel in the making will soon have the capital’s newest Newari eating joint. Named Lazana (warm hospitality) the eating outlet just as you enter Hotel Radisson should be ready by the coming eating and gambling season of Tihar.

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This millennium’s last Dasain was in so many ways confusing regarding its timings, dates, and the weather included. By no means it was a dry Dasain, it was wet. Anyway, the traditionally patient Nepalese pulled it through, alright!

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When gas comes online and you pay only Rs 280 per month, you have scant respect for it as exemplified by the residents of the Dhaka city. They’d rather let the gas burn instead of lighting another match or using a gas lighter!

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The custom people seem to have a weakness for big bags, be it a bag stuffed with a thick quilt or used clothes. They have to ask you where you are coming from. If the traveller has come back from affluent areas of the world, they would surely make him open the bag, even after passing it through the X ray machine, while the gold wallahs with a small bag may be able to pass through!

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The streets of Kathmandu last week, reminded one of the blissful Seventies, when there were few people and even fewer vehicles in this City of monuments. But now with the chaos steadily building up, one feels like singing, “Where oh where has my old Kathmandu gone?”. Well, till next Dasain, it has gone to crazy drivers, crazier pedestrians and outsiders who call it a temporary home.

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NC president GP Koirala better be careful what he says. He blurted out at a meeting with eminent journalists before Dasain that Minister Bal Bahadur KC would be ousted in “two or three days”. But as that has not happened even till now, one wonders whether it is a habit with the former PM to make hollow statements, or is it KC who has summoned more (Bhattarai’s) support to his side?