Your column Under my Hat really makes me laugh and refreshes my mood. After CK Lal's thought-provoking column, I go directly to your column. These days, I am curious to see if your hat will be brand new. Interestingly, it always is. What is the secret?

Subindra Bogati,
The Netherlands

."Blubber" in last week's Letters column was really unnecessary. Some Dr Govinda Luitel character seems to hate Kunda Dixit's guts. I have also found Under my Hat not up to par a few times, but it is usually light reading when you are in a good mood, and on the whole enjoyable.

Whether you were born in the US or UK, Iceland or Ireland, Timbuktu or Zamboanga, male asses are, I think, known as jack-asses and not jenny asses. All of us know Kunda's gender, so is this Washingtonian grammar or slang or what? Keep on hating Kunda, most of us enjoy it.

Dr Amrit KC,
Bishalnagar

. Doesn't Dr Govinda Luitel read US newspapers? Surely even Kunda Dixit cannot outshine Dubya's Bushisms. As to the question of Dixit's genius, the consensus of the Nepali literati is that he is the only Nepali writer fit to pick up crumbs under the table of Bhairav Aryal, the greatest Nepali satirist. But I don't see how this establishes that Dr Luitel is a jenny ass.

Kanden Thebe
Yangrup, Taplejung