A few days ago, one of my relatives from Biratnagar was here for a visit. She listed the different kinds of pollution that plague us, and her list has very unusual categories — social pollution, knowledge pollution, gossip pollution and ‘sneak pollution’.

She told me a story about a sneak who tortured two friends for about a year after which the two friends found out that the whole misunderstanding between them was only the sneak’s sneaky lies. After finding this out, the old friends became best friends again. The sneak was out of the friends’ circle and was disliked by every one.