No more Mr. op-ed contributor

I'm in a reasonably disciplined and productive phase writing-wise to be able to produce two 800-word opinion pieces a week that people could take Seriously. Capital s please. Back in the day, TKP had a section in its op-ed pages called 'post platform', a place for pieces that were not fully prime real-estate worthy but still worth enough to be published. Funny pieces, pieces on environment and acid rain, rising price of momo in restairan, importance of sharing, etcetera. It was a platform for people to get themselves known to make themselves ready for the adult version of those takes

I'd be a good candidate for regular contributor to those pieces. My writings are not entirely full of hot air surrounded by more hot air but I don't write much real good serious stuff either. Anything to do with politics or analysis in the Nepali context I'm too cynical to even consider. They force upon a framework of systematic analysis on  threadbare institutions that don't follow the base assumptions of those analytical models. Here's a simpler model. Everyone is selfish and thinks selfishly in terms of personal gains organizational or institutional strength be damned.

That was the plan anyway. Me, good old me, your biweekly newspaper contributor. Parents would introduce me to girls as a writer. Papers would quote me. Retweet and quote me on twitter. I'd be an intellectual. An IRL intellectual.

Well that's not happening anymore so boo boo hoo. Tkp removed their post platform section and I don't see anything equivalent anymore in their new layout. Maybe I didn't check well but it seems there's no place for people like me in there anymore. Sad times