TITTLE TATTLE

Tittle Tattle

A huge crowd formed within five minutes in Sundhara recently blocking off the traffic. A jeering crowd comprising males only followed a distraught young street girl followed by two policemen. Just goes to show the attitude of our public here and also shows how much spare time they have on their hands.

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High time this small minded city had a gossip club. Many ladies and gentlemen   with nothing better to do would then find an apt outlet. Not that they do not practice their trade already. But wouldn’t getting birds of a feather together create some cacophony! Talk of empty vessels or heads matched with petty hearts and twisted tongues.

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To stop dirty calls at nights...just have a recorder ready. Play it back when they call next or better still,  send it to their wives.

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The private sector looks euphoric about Dr. Tilak Rawal’s appointment as governor of Nepal Rastra Bank. So many congratulatory advertisements with high-sounding adjectives prove this. Congratulations Dr. Rawal for having so many well-wishers (!). Nothing of this sort had happened before. Hope this is not a bait from the private sector, which often is notorious about thinking only about itself, specially so in financial matters.

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Kudos to Minister for Environment Bhakta Bahadur Balyar for publicly saying the authorities will now check both diplomatic and also government  vehicles for their level of emission. However it remains to be seen whether this is a euphoric exhaust of the Minister or something really “solid” to clear up the thickly polluted air of Kathmandu.

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The government taking suggestions to appoint a “clean” man as the head of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority is a positive development. However, apart from an obscure organisation called Pro Public, which has made it a point to try and get much media mileage, how many others has the government consulted for this task? Can they be transparent about this as well?

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But to give credit to Pro Public, if they really are the only competent organisation to advice the government, then how have they selected the candidates whose names they have forwarded? It would be wrong if this was not done in a transparent manner, with a room full of only afno manchey.