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Babu meets the Dada.

Dada: Babu, timi dat kaile dekhaudainau ni. kina? (show me your teeth, babe)

Babu: I firmly see Marx’s dream before me – shooting people in the morning, carrying out surgery in the day, and becoming a hero in the evening. Does it look like I have time to brush my god damn teeth and choose between the capitalistic forces of colgate and closeup versus the imperialistic tendencies of Dabur Lal Dunta Manjan?

Dada: I thought I was the Dada. But hats off to you, you know how to kick start an interview. How do you do it?

Babu: How do I do what?

Dada: How do you do that?

Babu: What that?

Dada: that.

Babu: This is getting no where.

Dada: You think so?

Babu: Am used to it.

Dada: Ok, moving on, your party is called Maoists, what does this mean?

Babu: We are Mao’s decendents from an illegitimate affair he had with a Nepali princess.

Dada: Do communists like wai wai?

Babu: You see, this is the fundamental problem with life in Nepal. The capitalist pigs are able to feed the pigs wai wai before we can brainwash them with ideals. Wai wai tastes better and fills you up. It can be prepared in many ways – can be eaten raw, on the fly, or cooked as a proper meal… but they are reductionists – their package is smaller than what it once was.

Dada: Thank you Babu for taking part in the first interview of the Nepali Dada Party as it awaits the moment to revolutionize the revolutionaries with a counter-revolution to meet the other-revolution. Dhanya ho babu, dhanya ho!