Thanks to Manjushree Thapa for her article "Putting the media on trial" (#116). It made me understand the reality of the whole event.

I was devastated by Shrisha Karki's suicide. One can imagine the trauma and sexual harassment this young girl must have undergone to choose such a serious act to end her life. She must have spent days in depression and gloom. Again it is so ridiculous that the so-called professionals in the media who published those pictures did not know privacy laws. No wonder so many bogus sub-standard papers are mushrooming in the capital, which prod into people's private lives in an embarrassing and degrading manner. Journalism is supposed to be a respectable profession. Those who do not know their codes of practice or journalistic ethics are unfit to be in the business. And another woman, instead of giving support to a woman in distress, has forgotten her duties and has bowed down to greed to blackmail an innocent soul. All the people involved should be brought to trial so that Shrisha's soul can rest in peace.

Dr Arati Thapa Hamal
Wakefield, UK

. Manjushree Thapa has been "hitting the nail on the head" lately. I want to very much thank her on the one hand for presenting us for Dasain with Laxmi Prasad Devkota's superb poem 'Deranged' (#115) and on the other for her comment on the deplorable incident around Shrisha Karki in your last number (#116). On the latter, I was hoping that someone would openly approach the issue in the way she did and put the blurred facts that lurk behind in clear focus. She did it outstandingly. Hopefully we all could learn from the tragedy to prevent another.

Karin Eichelkraut,
Patan