thugged_out, #1. Why is it that we always have to think in terms of what's happened elsewhere? Why can't we believe that something radical that has never happened anywhere else before may happen and change Nepal and/or the world? #2. True, it may be too idealistic to imagine a perfect society where there're no classes (I agree with your point about the semantics: I think caste is really a class). However, is it too much to ask that the effects of such a stratification not allow fundamentally unjust (no matter how you look at it) practices, such as "untouchability" and oppression?