Simsim-jyu,

No doubt that both intention and means needs to be good. Otherwise you can go only so far.

Maoists have a lot of things to learn and discover, some regarding means and some regarding intention too.

I have been telling some friends near Maoists that the few controversial things Maoists have been telling recently (like Prachanda’s “Jana-ganatantra” and Mohan Vaidya’s “middle path media” !) are going to be their surprise of life once they find out that they were just trying to invent the wheel with a different name.

There ain’t no jana-ganatantra other than loktantrik-ganatantra and their ain’t no middle-path media other than free media. It’s been discovered a long time ago.

So the most Maoist might end up with is some new brands. However they will be re-inventing the same old and golden “freedom” and “democracy” all over again. Simply because that’s what Nepali people want and will never ever let anybody tamper with that.

However, this might happen not soon but at the end of the learning curve. Meanwhile we shall be seeing all kinds of odd jargons and behaviors from Maoists.

Nepe