One sure indication that the country is preparing to open up to multinational banks now that we have to be WTO-compliant is that their logos have already arrived. But who is going to protect Nepali banks from copyright infringement by Citibank, Commonwealth Bank and the Farm Credit Bank of Texas from shamelessly copying our logos?

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Kollywood hunks are not anymore the heroes they appear to be on the silver screen. Usually the good guy dispatches 10 baddies off the edge of the cliff with a flick of his wrist, runs through an inferno to rescue the girl and then croons a full-throated mating call while chasing girl around a tree during a squall. Alas, real life is different from reel life. Just the other week Nepali Rambo Bhuban KC found himself in the middle of a love triangle in Tinkuney. Caught in flagrante with someone else's wife after a high speed car chase, hubby dragged Mr Casey out of the car by his hair and proceeded to thrash him to pulp before a shocked crowd of fans. The audience at first thought this was a movie shoot, and waited in vain for the hero to start dishing out the dhisum-dhisum. In this reality show, however, the hero had no gravity-defying powers, he was mercilessly flogged and was left with a bloody nose. This was one fight scene in which the good guy lost, and on-lookers went home shaking their heads in disappointment.

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It's not just the UML, the festering feud within the Baddies is also approaching the status of a carbuncle that is about to burst. Com Yummy went to Baluwatar the other day on a recce to check out the furniture. She was overheard telling admin staff to get ready for Hubby Boy becoming PM soon. However, she must know better than us that the biggest obstacle to BRB being PM are not the NC or UML but PKD. Comrade Chairman would rather have Deuba as prime minister than his deputy, and has even been trying to entice Comrade Cloud to be PM. Which brings us to the intriguing question about why after hankering for JN's resignation, both the Oli faction and the NC have suddenly gone cold on that demand.

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Comrade Ugly has been trying to clear his name by groveling to the press and presenting journalism awards left and right. Being the Minister of Misinformation helps, and Comrade Conflagration has been using strong-arm tactics in the courts by populating the bench with black-coated red lawyers and either buying off or intimidating the prosecution. Even Bhimarjun Bhai seems to have chickened out. But the Baddies are in a dilemma, if they lose the case Ugly will probably face further prosecution, if they win the human rights wallahs are sure to take him to Geneva. And it is only a hop skip away from there to The Hague.