Nepe, Let me put my cards on the table. 1) I have NO problem with your holding republican views, though I do think that so seduced are you by its abstract intellectual appeal that you seriously underestimate its lack of emotional appeal to most Nepalis (given Nepal's particular history, ethnic diversity, long entrenched institutional mechanisms, geography and so on). 2) I think it is ridiculous that for someone like you so wedded to the idea of republicanism, you appear least inclined to put yourself in the line of fire by returning to Nepal and fighting it out to the finish. My question: Why be passionate about something when your passion is so obviously goddamn impotent? [After all, ten more years, Nepe, and you'll probably be over the average life-expectancy-limit of male Nepalis. And we have all seen how old fogies tend to make a mess of things in Nepal. :-)] 2) I do have a serious problem, just as I have problems with Khagendra Sangraula's attitude to his critics, when you start labeling others, ridiculing others and calling them names simply because they do NOT share your views or have other ideas. Why can't you accept the fact there are hard-core republicans AND there are others who are not as wedded to republican views as you are, and there can be a forum for all live and talk? On this forum, you have changed the rules of engagement . . . you have called me --Ashu --countless names; speculated about my career aspirations; suggested that my career is dependent on royalist sympathies, even turned my name into a FALSE adjective and have gone on and on. My question: What gives you, Deepak Khadka, this goddamn moral superiority to judge other posters with such FALSE characterisations and FALSE evidence? 3) You have a habit of SELECTING and posting ONLY certain appealing-to-your-own-ideology information on Sajha. I have NO problem with that habit. My only concern is that you be intellectually honest and STOP calling yourself a scientist and just call yourself a political propagandist, which you are (given your communist background). I say that because I have a much higher regard for science and scientific temperament than you seem to have. And so my request: Don't slur the name of science to lend credibility to your ideologically charged political views. It's not gonna work here. 4) Re: the AC Nielsen survey. Are the results of the survey the absolute truth? No. Could they be discussed? Yes. But again, what I found interesting was that while you would mercilessly pounce on one flawed question, you would STOP short of looking at the available options to that question to see how the answers played out anyway. If you read the answers, even if the question had been changed to something neutral, it's UNLIKELY that more than 50 per cent would THEN be sudden republicans. 5) Dristi is a leftish rag -- of any appeal only to those who already subscribe ot its views. You know it. I know it. Let's not pretend otherwise and fool Sajha readers. I do NOT have any faith in Dristi's reporting (and this is also based in my own personal experience when they once accused a Martin Chautari member -- Pratyoush Onta -- of embezzling funds when that had NOT been the case at all. Pratyoush, being Pratyoush, confronted the editor there and then, but the lying editor would neither produce the evidence nor apologize. Such were and are your Dristi's standards!! I do have a higher faith in the AC Nielsen report, WHILE knowing that the poll, like all polls, give us ONLY A SNAPSHOT of people's thought at one point in time, and in the absence of further polls, that's the latest opinion polls we have to move the discussion forward. As any statistician knows, it's better to have an opinion poll (even if it contains some flawed questions) than to strive for a FLAWLESS poll or have no polls at all. And Nepe, unless you are in a position to commission a fresh new poll, attacking the methodology on minor technical points while IGNORING the bigger picture that the poll paints overall shows that like a true propagandist you'd do anything to have your say. And Futurenepal, it was NOT me who made that comment about three-year-old not understanding my English. It was made by M.P. aka the Crown Prince (of Sajha). oohi ashu