The programme, 'Nepal Sandarbha' ( 'Nepali Context'), had become synonymous with one name, Rabindra Mishra, the BBC's Nepali Service Editor.Mishra's pointed questions and 'cross-examination' was a hit among the listeners who would write to the BBC to commend his interviews. However, last night (Wednesday, March 1), it was someone else who was who was running Nepal Sandarbha show. The reason: Mishra quit the BBC just the previous day to launch his own political party, 'Sajha' (Common). When Mishra announced his resignation from one of the most reputed media houses in the world, with which he was associated for over 22 years, his boss had one thing to say to him: You are taking a big leap of faith. Mishra's boss quite aptly sums up the first few pages of Mishra's foray into politics.Born to a family in Kathmandu, Mishra spent most of his childhood in one of Nepal's remotest corners, Darchula and Doti. "My uncle was a government employee, and that is why I studied in government schools in Darchula and Doti," says Mishra, the son of literateur and artist Manujbabu Mishra, who has 'confined' himself to his own quarters for the last 25 years . The senior Mishra has remained away from the outside world to the extent that he even skipped the launch of his own biography.
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