In the past before the invention of Internet, particularly, before the weblogging (BLOG) culture was developed, CK Lal likes opinion writers have sole access and monopoly in the newsmedia to run their opinion as if it represents the whole population. Today, CK Lal like opinion writers see BLOG and access to comment section in newsportals as threat, and challenge to their rhetorics, and come up with such silly and hateful phrases "echo chambers", "regular posters" .... targetting these commentators. CK Lal does not have courage to take these comments in positive way, but goes on old ways of name calling.

CK Lal fails to understand that in democracy (unfortunately he was turned himself to Maoists aligned writer after GPK's demise) every one whether literate or illeterate or rich or poor have the same say in election "one vote no matter how intelligent or rich you are", in the same way in unmoderated web-portals, everyone gets the same access to their say whether it is shout or intelligent write ups. You have to accept it, not try to discredit them by using name calls as CK Lal did in this web. I remember once Govind did similar attack on these commentators in Myrepublica.com (earlier avatar was Dainikee, and he was the moderator of the comments section). I know for CK Lal these comments are annoying, frustrating, time consuming, and painful to find a right and useful comment, but if you don't have time, why don't you go through these regular posters, and get the essence of their comments, and scan the rest. WWW has such tremendous information, that it is not for only you, and you can never ever read all these contents, so forget about dreaming like that. I remember the video of discussion between Yahoo's CEO, Yale Univ's President, plus other three great people in planet, they told in the video that next generation will have abundance of information, but finding an information that suits your need will be a great issue, and the biz model will be moving towards that direction.

In the past, there were few opinion writers like CK Lal, but now because of open forum like (moderated to keep sanity) NepaliTimes.com, CK Lal does have sole access in printed form, but in this discussion forum,  have several commentators who can scissor the issue, and explore and educate us all the facets of the discussion topic. Therefore, CK Lal should rather improve the quality of his writing, but not feel challenged and discredited by these commentators. Your old rhetorics do not work. You need keep updated, and informed more. As in the video mentioned above, when write an article, better well prepared and write contents not based on what you believe or perceive, but what evdience you have to present to validate that you belief is acceptable to the readers. You should be proud that you are getting much better readers, and the old way of flowing your vested interest based statements are gone, but it is the age of two way communication no matter what type of article or information you try to pass on to readers. CK Lal, you must accept the reality, and avoid the mistake Govind did in Republica and corrected later after realizing the power internet based readers.

GyaRel

Oooi Nirmal,

Forget about being in utopia by getting rid of prejudices, greed, selfish, .... Face the real world. These are relative terms, and we are human beings, therefore, they define us. These characters motivate us to remain unique from others. Therefore, it is not about getting rid of these characters, because getting rid means you have to waste a lot of money, and it is about minimising to the lowest level that is acceptable to all of us based on our resources. It is matter of time. Prejudice, greed, selfishness, egos that we have today, will be of no worth tomorrow, as the history tells us. You can not kill someone to get rid of his prejudices, greed, selfish, and ego characters, but as the generation moves ahead, these will change, and reshape our world. Yesterday, Bahun were superior just by having Janai, their pride of having janai is no worth today. Majority elder Nepalis are still cynical, because they had never seen positive things in their life. If you tell anything positive about a fellow Nepali, the senior Nepali's first answer will be "denial" e.g. the persone most have some influential, he must have cheated, he must have misused ..... like that kind of excuses of denials. But, if you look at the young Nepalis they are mostly positive, very optimistic, and they have pride and ego, that is why when you say something negative about a fellow Nepali or fellow human, they will ask you why are telling it to me, why should I know, do you think I will enjoy it? But, if you tell the same story to someone who is very senior in age, and is not related to that person, then you will find him very interested and the person enjoys the failure of fellow Nepali because majority of Senior nepalis have less successes, and not many positive things happend in their whole life. Young Nepalis son and daughter of the cynical "senior" Nepal have transformed to a new level pride and ego, and have slowly competing with the Y and the X generation. Thanks to these senior nepalis who gave them the ability to think positively by sending them in best schools the ability they lacked knowingly or unknowingly. I am very proud of the next generation kids who will lead Nepal for better economy, and better lifestyles with positive attitude. CK Lal, unfortunately, writes most of the articles on failures, cynical, and less on what positive we have, what we can improve, .... he could not realize the positive side of these few echo masters in this forum who with their prejudice, pride, ego, and selfish character try to defend what is right on their mind, and bring evidence one after another to validate their thoughts, and majority of them use head than heart to win fellow reader and commentators. CK Lal should learn that heart is very cosmetic in influencing people, but without head the heart may beat, but it is very selfish because it can not deliver ions to the rest of the body, and keep them working. CK Lal should transform himself and take shower, and be with these young minds if he wish to continue to challenge their thoughts, otherwise, his days are limited on printed form. CK Lal needs paradigm shift in his thoughts and respect to others thought. Period.

GyaRel

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