biswa, mero tapai sanga sorrai ana sahamati cha. splitting a country, history tells us, will only yeild to worse off conditoins. isreal and palestine, india and pakistan. when i was reading thugged_out's posts, though i did not agree with a lot of it, i did think he was being rational. tara one thing came to my mind, we have had sooooo many problems in nepal, culutrally and socially, (ex: caste system), but i think on some levels we also practise some tolerance. i mean hindus and muslims live side by side, and we never erupt into violence, well we did once, september 1, 2004 after the nepalis got shot in iraq. tara right after that there was this mass rally in kathmandu by hundreds of muslims, hindus and peoples of all cutlural background showing unity and support and denoucing all the violence..taht was when it hit me hard that no matter how teeny tiny we are, it is amazing how diverse we are and how much we are able to respect one another. there are ofcourse exceptions to this argument. nepal is alrady sooooo small. how much smaller can it be? it is not like these cutlural groups are fighting against one another...when we have a mosque and temple and a stoopa side by side, why is there any need to separate chettris and magars and bahuns and rais? yes we are diverse, but diversity does not equate problems in our case. diversity is definetely giving birth to problmes in areas like sudan and iraq. and never would their problems be solved by dividing thier countires.