Prachanda Does 360-degree on KTV

I mean business; he seemed to insist, with the quintessential Nepali (political) flavor of self-conceit, mixed with some mild emotional bouts of rage and cynicism.

Pity the KTV reporter, he managed to ask so many questions, despite the fact that he was the first Nepali TV journalist who was filming “the fearsome" himself. Anyway, that helped Prachanda do a 360-degree on "the popular channel," as he put it. It was a free publicity.

Without a Nepali Neilson, we may not know exactly how many tuned into the tube to see his aggressive gestures. Yet, little doubt, he did speak (some may say rambled) through many of the issues vexing the country today. Again and again, Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal proved he would not miss a PR opportunity.

If dialogue would not work, he warned, he would be ready to kill more. If other nations saw thousands and even millions dead to do away with their feudal past, why not Nepal?—he seemed to argue. Only about 15,000 Nepalis had died so far, he reminded, just to warn the parliamentary parties, whom he bashed again and again.

He did speak in thet Nepali tongue, like an average Joe, directly, and often harshly, and many of his facts were dead-wrong. The self-described “scientist," for instance, could not tell British from Britain, repeatedly.