Ram Gopal Sharma (Letters # 16), wherever he may be living, would be wiser if only he had a bit more respect for Jan Aastha because it is the only Nepali-language paper in Kathmandu that has the guts and the reliable sources to expose the
ever-increasing rot inside the army. The story about the court martial has been lifted by your paper and others precisely because they are true. The reason Jana Aastha seems so biased about the army may be because its author was detained and mentally tortured for a whole night by army intelligence for exposing their dirty linen, but he has continued to he has continued to dutifully inform the public. Take it from me: most of what Jana Astha writes about irregularities in the army (more than 80 percent) is true.

R Gurung
Bhaktapur