Excerpted from Kunda Dixit's column Under My Hat in 61, 21-27 Sep 2001. The column ran from 2000-2006.
Under My Hat
A new year Under My Hat satire column by Kunda Dixit from the 2-8 January 2004 edition of Nepali Times
KUNDA DIXIT
Since the festive season has begun, the state of emergency has been lifted, and street protests are once more allowed to snarl traffic, we can…
Security Beefed Up for Umpteenth Time at TIA BY AN INSECURE CORRESPONDENT Responding to a worldwide security alert, the Tribhuban Unintentional…
Not even the most patriarchal male chauvinistic piglet in this country will begrudge parliament's recent proclamation to set aside 33 percent of…
Are we losing the fire in our bellies? Are we slacking off and allowing lethargy and ennui to obliterate the fervour of the April Uprising? The…
News that GP 'Sanubuwa' Koirala and PK 'Awesome' Dahal have sent letters to Kofi Annan has set off a chain reaction of letter-writing to the UN…
It is a disgrace and embarrassment that two months after abolishing the national anthem we still don't have a new one. In fact, it's hard to…
However much you love your country, there comes a time in everyone's life when they have to leave for more salubrious climes. You have to take…
One important trait of us Nepalis (if we may be allowed to modestly toot our own trumpet here) is that we rest on our laurels. Once we achieve…
Given the rapid pace of renovation and beautification taking place in the nation's capital these days, we can be fairly certain that Nepal can…
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT We Apologise to Viewers That We've Had To Poach The Signal For This World Cup Broadcast From Myanmar TV Because ESPN And…
With so much happening these days it is natural for some earth-shattering bits of news to fall between the cracks. That is why from time to time…
At the rate our all-powerful parliament is transmogrifying Nepal's socio-political landscape, it is only a question of time before it declares…
That a relief it is to have our press freedom restored to its former glory so that we can print all the unverified gossip and defamatory…
After the past month of turbulence and turmoil when many of us had to go without regular Friday nights out at the neighbourhood watering hole…
Having spent the better part of the past two weeks in the company of a dentist in a hard hat who has been boring deep inside my oral cavity with…
In any other country they'd have thrown up their hands and given up by now. But not here in Nepal, because we are a hardy and resilient people…
Now that we find ourselves in the cusp of a new Nepal, it has been ordained that all relics of our royal past be replaced with even older…
For a country with the world's most advanced calendar (we are 57 years ahead of our nearest rival) and a nation with the tallest bonsai on earth…
Now that under the one-window policy government ads are only given to newspapers that print news quoting reliable eye-witnesses reports that the…
Once a year on April First we of the journalistic persuasion are allowed by royal ordinance to officially let our hair down. This one day when…
Thanks to the yeoman's service imparted by our country's current rulers in the past year, we can say with confidence that things can't get any…
Every week us multi-award winning nationalistic journalists (Motto: 'For Crown and Country, In That Order') go about our selfless duty of…
