Newuser, I am willing to hear your point of view. Why don't you answer my simple question: Ok let's say King G walks out. What then? What are you blabbering about on how to get Nepal on track minus the corruption minus the maoists. How? Even tho I support the kings move, I don't support slogans like 'raja hamro desh pran bhanda pyaro chha'. He is just another human being and needs to be treated like one. Poonte you say, "Democracy is NOT a package that can be delivered once a dictatorial individual decides that "his" people are ready for it -- it is a continuing PROCESS in which it corrects itself of it's misgivings. " There is such a thing as a downward spiral. The politics of Nepal kept on degenerating to a point that Maoist kept getting stronger and stronger and would have infiltrated the capital and taken over if someone didn't stand up. The problem was and is that democracy is not a self correcting process as you have theoretically claimed. We don't have any good politicians. I'm not a blind supporter of the king. In politics you have to choose the better of all available options and right now I don't see any better options. Do you?