Hukka Nepali - I don't mean to pick on you but you are the only one, besides Hi Nanu perhaps, who is so much as making an effort to rationalize things. Even though I disagree with a lot of your observations, I want to put my points across in the spirit of free and open conversation between two Nepalese who love their country but see things differently. " when i read about prachanda talking about ISI, i was just thinking to myself is he really that stupid?? i mean gimme a break, it was just as stupid if not more as king importing ammo from china and trying to play that card. i think prachanda really truly genuinely believes he has india played anyway he want but probably is completely ignorant to the possibility of him being played for india's cause." I am intrigued by this comment as well. I suspect he is just trying to be in their good books. Build credibility, gain trust - that sort of thing. Also maybe a bit of nationalist bravado after landing at TIA - a message to folks back home that he hasn't been softened up by India's corrupt, wine-sipping, darjeeling-tea-drinking , capitalist ruling class. "i for one think, if you are an official representative of a nation in an international arena you owe this much respect to everyone you are representing either by speaking in your national or international language." We are going to have to disagree on that one. If he had been speaking Chinese in Beijing, or Tibetan in Lhasa, he would probably have been applauded for trying to charm his guests. In my opinion, this whole thing of "official language" is a thinly veiled hatred of India and anything Indian and does not have a whole lot of merit to it. Nobody wants to piss their hosts and I don't think Prachanda did either.