The day old Satchmo (Louis Amstrong) died I was a young student in Kathmandu and lived at the Ascol hostel. And I thought, what an event, what a happening, a great musician and one of the greatest trumpeters has left this world and no one in Kathmandu writes even something about him. I felt a burning desire to do it and handed a typed article in at The Rising Nepal. And they published it. That was how I became a journalist & writer.