Kathmandu: Nepali psychology is very difficult to understand. It changes according to the season, which gets reflected in the double standard manner they react to any particular event.

Consider the case of the Royal killings of June 1 evening.

The government could not supply any information regarding the ghastly killing that occurred inside the ramparts of Nepal’s most secured place-the Royal Palace.

The government controlled media maintained the time honored tradition of toeing the government dictated versions on the sad incident. The rest was only the mourning tune which is only but natural on such sad occasions.

Then comes the report through the international media, read the BBC, the CNN and Zee News followed by Star News, that the killer of the entire Royal family members was none less than Crown Prince Dipendra who later shot himself.

Unbelievable as it might appear, however, the fact is that all the international media agencies quoted Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister cum Home Minister Ram Chandra Poudel to be the news source that summarily charged Crown Prince Dipendra to be the real killer.

Later, the rest of the media organizations followed the suit, which continues till to date.

How Minister Poudel concluded that Crown Prince Dipendra was the killer and supplied the news to those foreign media institutions will remain shrouded in the mystery until Poudel himself kindly clarifies his source of the news.

Considering minister Poudel’s news source to be very smart and accurate enough, then question could also be asked as to why Poudel’s intelligence unit could not inform him about the smell of the would be event?

Be that as it may, the Nepali limitations encouraged the international media to play the Nepali event in a manner that suited them politically most. The net result was that we were forced to listen to their half truth-half false and at times planted stories regarding the Palace events.

However, one must admire the international media coverage on Nepali events that at least kept the Nepali population well abreast with the rumors. Thanks the Zee TV, BBC, the CNN and the likes that informed about the Nepali incident which in effect should have come from our own media channels.

There is nothing to panic. If we are weak and if we lack such technologies even in this cyber age, who else should be blamed other than we the Nepalese ourselves.

It is time that, as congress Minister Omkar Shrestha too opined the other day, Nepali establishment offer the needed green signal to the Space Time Network television which claims that its approach would be up to 52 countries of the globe.

In our opinion minister Shrestha has spoke the minds of the majority of the population.

It is time that the government acts in this direction or else the hegemony of foreign media will further increase. A word to the wise should be enough.