I am wondering may be one of my replies to your response in another thread might have offended you, I hope i am wrong. Let me allow making some of the comments on your account of present movement and politics... Yes, you are right most of the leaders are "corrupt and inept" BUT how about Gayne who has increased his salary and allowances some 50 times or more than his brother used to draw then. He spends couple of lakhs to build western-style toilet in district for his less than a day visit. Several lakhs have been spent to make welcome gates and all those rallies in his support. He can not use toilet that common Nepali uses. He spent tax payer’s money in his daughter's marriage. Kamal Thapa has been given authority by the king to spend 5 lakhs per day as a pocket money. I don't have to talk about Pancheharu Tulsi Giri et al. We can not blame party for the corruption without looking at why they are inclined to be corrupt even though some of them must have been aware of moral and legal implication of the corruption. Running a political party is an expensive business. Taking part in the election needs heck lot of money and most of the politicians are full timers. If, the party leaders get 10% of what king is looting now then I think they would work hard for the nation building! You can not expect someone to work full time with highest efficiency and dedication and not get paid well. Unlike in US and other developed countries where politicians come into politics after they get established into their respective professions and once they complete their terms into public offices they return to their respective professions, for example, this is exactly what Al Gore did couple of years back, politicians in Nepal and other south Asian countries do not have strong professional background. They get pray of short comings in our system. We may have to look at this part of the equation too. We need to develop some short of provisions within the constitution to have certain amount of funding to run the political parties (like in here) so that we will create an atmosphere where leaders with outmost moral virtues can join and lead the party politics but not a fool but rich like “Narayan Koirala” come into play party politics. This takes time and it does not happen over night, it is like an evolution. But to have these kind of set up you need to have multiparty democracy in place. This is why you need Loktantra. King or Maoist will never let this to happen. The bottom-line is you can not always distrust party politics; they are the only legitimate forces to govern people of 21st century, whether you personally like some leaders or not, it does not matter, you can mistrust a politician, a politician could be corrupt and inept, But the existence, effective functioning as per the inspiration of people and improvement of the institution of political party is more important than defending an autocratic and regressive monarchy. Some specific criticism to the remarks that you made yesterday in another thread and in here… You mentioned that “He… crying his lungs out ignorant people urging them to cast vote does not make one a leader, neither does a number of years he has spent in jail, writing political jargons which sounded good only while reading.” You are absolutely right; BUT silent submission to autocratic King never generates good leaders as well. You also mentioned that “Nepal was still not decentralized, corruption reached its acme, projects were suspended, Kathmandu ran out of water, load shedding evoked series of crimes and we still rant for political freedom. If I say I do not support any kind of political movement, I am darted with strings of stinging rebuke and stigmatized as non Nepalese. Why can’t I just be a simple person who just wants to write sometimes, listen to music, play with my daughter and help others if time and money permits. Why do I have to support or disregard any political movement to vouchsafe my existence?” Absolutely you don’t necessarily have to vouchsafe, but when you said in another thread that the present movement is just “a political stunt”, and “you feel no pain, guilt and happiness for the present movement” and “the diseased in Kalanki has witnessed the death because it was his call”, to me these were insensitive and off the line for someone who wants to be an apolitical. Teti hoo, I hope u would take this as a constructive criticism. I agree to disagree with your views on present people’s movement and the matter of politics, for the rest of the matters we are together. How is Bhauju doing these days and lots of love to Urvi; I may visit you guys soon. BTW, earlier i was referring to this thread: http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/OpenThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=30403