the main thing i got from that interview was: that goddam commie is over-rated! i mean he cannot even answer simple questions, and people make him out to be this great intellectual. maybe its a case of "laato ko deshma gaado tanneri" just kidding... anwyay, i dont want to dwell too much on the interview. once_in_a_while: of course the maoists organized the whole thing. the democratic parties have held rallies in the past. how many people showed up then? a few hundred. this time, it was a few hundred THOUSAND. some claim 20 lakhs. these were not ordinary kathmandu dwellers, but people (not necessarily maoists) hte maoists had sent to the valley. why did the maoists need the SPA cover? simply becauese if it was announced that a bunch of maoists were on the streets of ktm, they would have been showered with bullets, as has been the case in the jungles. now, with the SPA cover, and a few ordinary ktm citizens in the crowd, it no longer looks like a bunch of maoists, now does it? anway, this whole announcemtn is a game. its a bargainign game. in KG's first announcement, he asked for a PM nominee. why did he not agree to reinstate the parliament then? well, because 1) he wanted to get a feel for the situation, to decide home much to concede 2) even if he knew all along, it sounds better coming on TV the second time, cos it makes it look like he conceded a LOT more than he had originally intended, with the hope that it would make the protestors happy. the goddam commies are playing a game. if they quietly come to the table now, they don't come with an upper hand. they want that upper hand when they walk into the constituent assembly, which is why they are making all this fuss. they want some sort of concessions right now, when the bargaining chips are in their favor. it's pretty clear. one reason for this is commie baburam's statements are inconsistent in the interview. he was just trying to come up with lame ass excuses on the fly (that mishra is good) and you can tell that they just devised their new strategy. secondly and most importantly, that pushpe is nowehre in sight. pushpe should have been the one talking. but since its baburame talking now, pushpe can always overrule baburame's statemtns. i forsee the commies and the 7 cronies doing a photo op sometime in the near future.