So the debate goes on. First, the jubiliant mood of Sajhaittes to find the phone lines connected in Nepal. The supporters of the King's move have taken this as a great privilege offered by the monarch to his beloved people. The reconnection of telephone communication after a drought of 1 week is depicted as a big step towards democracy by the ex and neo-panchas. They couldn't have got a better point to argue with the opposing cult. But cutting off telephone lines for a whole week in the 21st century and creating a communication black out is, in my view an extremely unjustifiable act of despotism. There was no alternative to them then to reconnect phone lines. They did it now better then later for their own sake otherwise the public outrage against them was inevitable. At least the King's new administration (I wouldn't call this a government) got some wisdom to nullify a probable public onslaught by restoring telephone lines. Thank you Mr. Gyanendra for this. I hope you will make sure the lines will be operated without interruption as before and you will not repeat the same mistake again. I agree with your administration's arguement that pre-paid mobile phones may be helping the Maoists to organize themselves. In principle I may not support this idea, but for the time being let the pre paid mobiles stop functioning until the new army operation(according to your own words) gains momentum. The Gyanendra administration have given arrays of hopes to two groups of people. One who were directly benefitting from the Panchayat and got their flow of fortune stopped once the system collapsed. Their joy has no bound after the King's move of panchayat ressurection. They will take this oppurtunity to explicitly welcome the reconnection of phone lines and hype it as a giant leap forward to 'real democracy' and 'pure curbing of corruption'. They think the more they praise the King, more will be their chance of fortunes flowing back in their life. The second group comprise of people frustrated from the mess created by politicians and scared of the Maoists violence. They will be grateful for the King to have got their phones restored. They will be very hopeful that the King will gradually restore all fundamental civil liberties and human rights soon. They won't bother if the King acted unlawfully against the dissidents as long as they are not directly affected by security forces' activities. But for the people who think that human rights and civil liberties are entitled to human beings right from their birth, the reconnection of telephones do not have any significance. Disconnecting them for a week was just a travesty. We need all of those rights back plus the promises made by the King translated into action. The new administration has full support of all the democrats to prosecute the corrupted politicians within the judicial framework of the country. But apart from that, other politicians should be allowed to exercise their political activities, media should be allowed to publish and broadcast their news and views and the Maoists should be given the oppertunity to have dialogues before the army launches its assault against them. Because the King has taken the responsibility of leading the country and it's his responsibility to try to avoid bloodshed, for the Maoists are also the children of Nepalis. If he has the willingness to win the hearts of every people he can do all of these things and he must do. Otherwise Monarchy will fall apart.