...Perhaps the most telling commentary of Nepal's perception of the Indian media's "exaggerated coverage of the blockade" was a front-page cartoon the Post carried Tuesday.

It showed a journalist sitting on the commode in his hotel bathroom with his trousers round his ankles. The scrawny man, wearing a combat jacket and a safety helmet that said "Foreign media", was speaking into a microphone with the tags of BBC, CNN, NDTV, STAR, Hindustan Times, Times of India and Zee.

"It's becoming very difficult to breathe," the journalist was saying in the cartoon by Rajesh KC, Nepal's Laxman, "...due to the thick smoke of bomb blasts... Reporting live from Kathmandu."

-Indo-Asian News Service