Your story "It's not about Hrithik anymore" (#23) compels me, as an Indian, to be worried. The question, which immediately springs to my mind, is: "Was it about Hrithik at all?" During the last two days, I have been witness to a senseless outpouring of violence targeted at the Indian community. All for an alleged remark which Hrithik vehemently denies he ever made. He has only been made a scapegoat. I wonder why the perpetrators of the violence did not stop to think that even if Hrithik said what he was rumoured to have said, doing what they did would only confirm his views. The only logical conclusion is that they did not want to: they wanted to go ahead and have their party. Senseless violence does not lead anywhere. A nation that ceases to think ceases to grow. I only hope that better sense will prevail and the Nepali people will be able to defeat the forces which are bent upon destroying the very fabric of Nepali life and culture.

Naveen Kumar
Kathmandu



Such a fuss over a small remark by a nobody called Hrithik. Why are we making him so important? When our own prime minister speaks to Nepalis in Hindi, why can't an Indian actor express (if indeed he did) his negative views about Nepal? If an Indian minister had made that remark, it may have been understandable to make an issue out of it. But over a remark by a film star?

Shailja Pradhan
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