A big birthday present for the fiesty septuagenarian who turned 75 on Monday this week.

Pinter is one of the two contemporary British playwrights that I admire most - the other being Tom Stoppard. Been to a few productions of the Pinter plays both in the Edinburgh Fringe festival and London's West End. The most popular of his plays include 'Ashes to Ashes', 'Homecoming', 'No Man's Land' etc but my personal best is ''Old Times' - which according to his biographer Michael Billington, is 'a work of beautiful elegiac obliquity'. Whatever that means!

An enormously fulfilling year for Pinter and indeed for British theatre. 29 plays under his belt, he's recently embarked on a new project - a radio play in collaboration with the composer James Clarke. It was aired on BBC Radio 3 on Monday to coincide with his birthday. The delectable Indira Varma - Meera Nair's protagonist in her film, 'Kama Sutra' - has a part in it.

Congratulations are in order for this good old 'pain in the arse' (by his own admission, mind you!)!!

I thought so, no need to apologise. Wow you got days off? Lucky you..:) Warn me all you want, I ain't scared...:) just make sure the rucksack is nice and clean and I get some space to breathe.

Time for the parachute to land..

mo ta detour sitour haina, tetai destination banauchu:P:P

NepaliPoonte,

Having a second thought! Hmm Not sure if they've got skiing resort there though. Someone's gonna answer that pronto or the rucksack's getting thrown off the Dover cliff! :)

I can swim...:D Name the city please...

or may be fly? :D

::) Sc....in ho??

ho ki hoina? 20, 19, 18...17

Hoina hehe...you are baaaaaaaaaddddddddddddddddd :D

Okay lady, I'm gonna have to now raise my 'white' flag and own up to my defeat with dignity. If you'll allow - or this orienteering route will end up reaching for Scandanavia having traversed the Europe proper. What do you say to that?

Om mane padme hum.

Hehe poor you....i will send you the answer..:)

Shall I murmur too? I think my arrow is pointing in the right direction. :P:P __ lati, ___longi!!eheh:P

NepPoonte, both these arrows won't work - we might as well chuck 'em in the bin for permanent! :(

Okay enjoy the rest of the day. Time for me to shoot off. Cheerio.

Allooooo..:) does this sir's name start from D ?

What's in the name anyway? Hmmm not gonna spill the beans - not now any way, and besides, that's a lot for one to be asking surely considering the pains that someone has put yours truly through: flipping through all his turgid maps for god knows how many times and for how long! All the orienteering check points covered except one, so he thought with a certain air of self-assurance: this game was now finally going to be over for good. Boy, was he in for a rude awakening, especially when yours truly was greeted with a terse piercing shot: You are baaaaaaaaaaaaaad! Ouch! :) The unbearable excruciating pain, quickly replaced by pangs of sadness and pity. On a sore note though, he thought, he would regain his customary verve and energy to try and have a go at his attempts, yet again, to claim that one last check point remaining. It appears that he's given up on his derring-do and is now back to where he left off: finishing up his freshly brewed last cuppa which has gone cold - obviously - so he can head home happy and rejuvenated!

Now, don't know, if someone has got anything to say to that! :)

I always have, but not now....:D

लाहुरे दाइको मुटु अरुले चोरेको जस्तो छ,युरोपको मुटु पत्ता लाम्न नसक्ने गरि...:P....शहरको नामै भन्दा नि नदेख्ने गरि चोरेछ गाँठै मन पनि!!!...:D
अब त थाहा पाउनुस्!!! हेहेहेहे!!!
:) ल है मेरो बेस्ट अफ लक!!!...हर हर महादेव!!!..:D

:) hahah Nirman what would it be like without you in Sajha eh? I wonder.

Have a nice weekend - don't drink too much. Will see you on Monday hai. Ditto to rose.
Cheerio.

hahahahah Sandhurst broda, don't stress yaself out!! you looked bit stressed!! flipping da map ain't gonna help ya if ya don't know what you are lookin for:P:P:P. Now I made sure ma arrows are pointing where it is suppose to. Shall I whisper??:P

I copy below a link for Prof Abhi Subedi's article on Pinter, published in the latest issue of Nepal. Read on. Cheers.

http://www.kantipuronline.com/Nepal/samayarekha.php