The latest issues of NEPAL newsweekly has a two-page report (p 46-47) on love-starved Maoists. According to the report: a) As a Maoist, if you love somebody, you have to seek the party's approval to proceed further in your romance. b) If the party sees a good 'fit' between you and love interest, it then arranges your marriage. c) Because of party's various [nation-building] activities that involve a lot of travelling, Maoist husbands and wives -- even newly-wedded ones -- may not meet one another for long stretches of time. Duties to the party come first before duties to your spouse. d) The party has issued an order to all couples NOT to have children for the first five years. [Children apparently pose a burden to the party.] e) Maoist females marry Maoist comrades, not non-Maoist guys. f) The party urges its comrades to repress their sexual urges to serve the greater cause of Janayudda. g) What do the Maoists think about homosexuality? The report does not say. h) If you are a jilted lover who is also a Maoist, you can file a charge, and the party, after judicious deliberations, will have your ex-lover sentenced to "Labor Camps". **** Anyway, the details above -- and I am NOT making them up -- give the rest of us a sense of the world we in Nepal WILL live in under the watchful eye of the Party, should Maoism come to pass in Nepal. The Party's aim, of course, is to make our life "easier" by making ALL our personal decisions on our behalf in the name of some greater good. Maybe the Maoists should have a "Department of Love Affairs" to legislate and enforce love-related laws. oohi "Trying to fall in love and get married BEFORE the Maoists come to power" :-) ashu ktm,nepal