Loved Kunda Dixit's "Recently declassified ads" (#115). Someone should alert Lee Kuan Yew to the item: "Country For Rent". I was also intrigued by the web site for idol thieves www.godrobbers.gov. The fact that the URL ends only in "gov" implies that it is a US website. Maybe Dixit meant "gov.np"? Or maybe we should wait for a new domain name: "god.np".

S Peters, Kathmandu

. I am writing to apply for the post of Chief Executive Joker announced by Kunda Dixit in "Recently de-classified ads". I have been serving as the Editor-in-chief of The Sinking Nepal, for the last two months.

Politically, I am "untainted" and I have no intention of running the next election. I have been "laathi-charged" by the "sasastra fulish" only once and have served two days in jail for deriding a police officer. I know how to caricature most of the prominent leaders of Nepal like Girijababu, Makune, Deuba, and even Chand-ji. If selected for this prestigious job, I will do everything possible to ameliorate the quality of humour in your paper. References can be taken from my employer in The Sinking Nepal daily.

"Misunderstood poet",
by email