Nepal, June 7 -- Odyssey is the story of an adventurous journey. Its semantic association with epic poetry and its protagonist is very well known. We live in times when adventures are made but they fail to create halos around performers. The powerful leader of a powerful country may love to project the image of a hero, but he may end up performing only burlesques. My reason for using the word 'odyssey' for the Nepali media has the following reasons.

I had never focussed on the media as I did in the last couple of months, working under the lockdown. Reading classics, poetry anthologies, and philosophical and historical theories would not have given a picture of the reality around me. So I seriously focussed on Nepali print, audio, and vis...