Another nepalu ji, I agree with you in all u said except "Democray can exist without politcial parties". I believe poitical parties are at the heart of democratic system. To say that u can have democracy without poilitical parties is just like king Mahendra's saying "dalabihin panchayati system" I feel bad about being too harsh on Ashu. The thing that makes me bad about his articles/ posts is that he always protests agaisnt the parties. That is fine to me. Parties have committed many mistakes. They are not fully democratic. But he never speaks a word agaisnt the undemocratic acts of the king. If he is impartial, he should speak against the undemocratci moves of king also. Otherwise just repeating that he is "democrat" sounds too hollow to me. just teti kura ho. no bad feelings beyond that