Blog Column

Now that every Nepali with enough teeth has a column in some newspaper or other — offline or online — I am considering getting one myself. I don’t want to be left behind the times — I have important things to say, rehashed and trite as they may be, and the younger crowd seems to love anyone who will go against the established rules of spelling, grammar and linguistic coherence. LOL.

Hyperbole and exaggeration go a long way in making a good writing, and that applies for everything that’s ever printed here. Be it the release of an ‘unconventional Nepali cinema’, or opening of a new restaurant, the occasion is always marked as being ‘historic’, and ‘first time in Nepal’. A time-frame, or period is never sufficient for us Nepalis, the opening of every third organization is marked by a new ‘era

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