चाेखाे माया डट कम: जन्मभूमि नेपाल र नेपालीहरूमा समर्पित

Devendra Gautam WAYN?  What is the full form of the above acronym? Let’s hope many of our modern, social media-savvy youths have the answer. After all, they are not mere consumers of all things digital, or are they? Without beating about the bush, let’s crack the world.  Where are you now? That’s what it means. Plain and simple, isn’t it? You see, the Western world, the superpower in particular, doesn’t have time for long expressions. Perhaps it feels exasperated with them as it still has the responsibility to civilize the ‘brutes’, a number of wars to win and many other battlefronts to open, march toward another era of prosperity, planets to conquer, insurmountable challenges like famine, poverty and illiteracy to win over, a fast-heating Earth to cool down a few degrees, to name just a few.  So, Robert continues to become Bob, William has to make do with plain, simple and simply unimaginative Bill (Pay the climate bill, will you, Bill?), Jonathan becomes Joe (poor Joe!)...