Nepe wrote: "Wallstreet को जागिर त्याग गरेर स्वदेशमा फर्कि राजतन्त्रको सेवा गर्ने देशभक्त . . ." Thank you, Nepe. The first half of your sentence is true The second half is verifiably FALSE. But both halves are entertaining and hilarious. Alas, I lack your kind of poetic wrath, nor to mention your sense of unfairness, to hurl similarly juicy words and phrases at you. ************* Paramendra asked: Why retain monarchy? Why go for a republic? My response: This monarchy and republic ka kura is premature and diversionary in Nepal at this time. No matter how polished our arguments are for either case, they remain -- and this is what Nepe never understands -- NOTHING more than conjectures and hypotheses at this time. [Nepe mistakes projected-in-the-future hypothesis as the truth, and his sort of attitude is similar to that of the Maoists who too take their their projected hypotheises as certainties!] It's only pie-in-the-sky Nepali intellectuals, doomed to look at Nepal with their face pressed against the glass while being based in comfy Washington DC who have the goddamn luxury to engage in such utterly silly kura-kani, far removed as they are from the killing fields of Nepal. The more pressing reality in Nepal is that all should aim to be united FIRST to completely defang the Maoists (who are NOT to be trusted at all) WHILE raising hell against the army's excesses. Once we take care of these priorities, the roles of the parties and the King will become clearer in a post-Maoist Nepal, and then we can have a second round of debate re: monarchy versus republicanism, if need be. Anything else just allows the Maoists to buy time at everyone's expense and more people continue to get killed. After all, Nepalis cannot be expectged to fight too many battles (against the Maoists, King and the political parties) on too many fronts at the same time. We have to fight one battle at a time. oohi ashu