‘Gaurav, Smithu! Guys you gotta stay awhile!’ I would have insisted my news buddies to stay back or either of them would have pressed the other two to stay depending on who was the anchor for the day. The new constitution passed by the Constituent Assembly would have created quite a ruckus in news desks, Nepali and English alike, both needing modifications in their previous news orders, headlines and caption. Folks at the visual/editing department would have had their share of work cut out picking out the momentous shots and comments from the leaders. Not an odd timing would it have been considered going by the track record of political decisions being made late night, midnight or even in the wee hours.  But a timing good enough or bad enough to get a broadcast media running. Fellow working journalists duo would have obliged  hurriedly altering the news script, turning ‘voting underway’ to ‘statute passed’, mulling whether to use words like watershed or epoch making and the other struggling to subtitle the immediate remarks of the right honorable prime minister! No caption could have been a perfect one for the news and in any case there would not have been time for a thoughtful caption, so one would most probably remain on the safe side to go with the likes of ‘Statute Passed!’ or ‘The Wait is over!’  Amidst all the scamper and hullabaloo in the run up to the evening bulletin, It’s my firm belief, after 2 years of stint as a news anchor, that anyone in the studio in those shoes, would have had a contended feeling of reading with a beaming countenance the long-awaited news for most, if not all fellow citizens. What a break from the usual and clichéd ‘The meeting ended inconclusively’, ‘House postponed after obstruction’ and all sorts of developments that made the statute-drafting process seem like a never ending failed project. But here it was, the news that would give people a renewed hope, and the anchor would have had a wonderful feeling and sharing it on air. While the visuals of the news rolled, the anchor would have made sure of looking fine and presentable in the studio TV thinking  more people would  watch the news than usual being high on the night. Besides, this would be a news bulletin worth saving to enrich one’s CV for a roving journalistic profession, unless the new status gives it a status of permanence!