Ashu, The original reference to Kul Chandra Gautam was to make a point about DYNAMIC approach versus STATIC approach to understand the political developments in Nepal. It had less to do with republicanism. However, I do appreciate the fact that Kul Chandra jee, unlike some of his peers and people like Ashu, is not in denial about growing voice for republicanism in Nepal. Kura tetti ho. *** *** *** I have not said anything about Akhilesh Upadhyay's personal "survey" he talks about in his article. Because there was really nothing to talk about. Firstly he is not presenting his findings in numbers and figures. Secondly, all he said was that certain classes of people are giving more benefit of doubt to the king than certain other class. That was not a spectacularly surprising finding for me to talk about. And why are you talking about Akhilesh' survey anyway ? His is not backing, at least not explicitly, your recent claim (okay observation) that the majority of (okay more, whatever that means) Nepalis are following the King. Why Akhilesh, Akhilesh, Akhilesh, then ? *** *** *** Regarding AcNielsen survey, everything -the questionnaire, the interpretation of data and the conclusion- about REPUBLICANISM is questionable and, more interestingly, inconsistent with the findings of other polls. The 5% republican group it reports, as Pramod Aryal speculated, most likely represented a fraction (fearless interviewees ) of the Maoists. It certainly do not represent "Democratic republicans" ? the group that boasts representing 90% of college going youth (Student Referendum 2004) *** *** *** And why are you pretending like you saw the result of the Student Referendum for the first time ? You have trashed it in Sajha countless of times, remember ? *** *** *** I am ready to talk more about AcNielsen survey. However, other stuffs are getiing boring. Write only if you have something new. Otherwise, I am probably not going to respond to them. I had a chance to talk about AcNielsen survey with Deepak Thapa at the get-together at Anil's place. Deepak -who knows Sharma and Sen personally too- was suggesting a group discussion about it. I am all for it. The Google group "Nepal Democracy" (a non-anonymous discussion forum) might be the best place. Nepe