After reading Kunda Dixit's 'Touching a raw nerve' (Under My Hat, #298) about tooth extractions I realised that there is rather a lot of defanging going on in the kingdom lately.

Dubby Bhagat,
Lalitpur

. As always Kunda Dixit really knows how to see the absurdities in Nepal's reality in his Under My Hat ('Living in a supernatural state', #296). But I don't think Nepali leaders see the irony in it and will change their behaviour, whether they are left, right, royal or loyal.

B Raj Giri,
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