Lawyers in Nepal are debating whether Wagle should be thrown into jail or not. Obviously, the issue is not as clear-cut as one would assume. ****** Garibjanata wrote: "Ashu, We need people like you to save Nepal but who is going to listen you? You don't have money. You don't have power. You are a Harvard educated fellow, I am sure you are honest and upright but does it matter at all in a place like NEPAL?" Well, I don't know about that. Al I know is such sentences make me nervous. In all honesty, I have never really thought of myself important enough to "save Nepal" or make other people listen to me. I mean, I do what I can, and if people like it, that's fine. If they don't like it, then, that's also fine . . . and so it goes -- the process of thinking about Nepal and doing work in Nepal, for what it is worth. For now, I have CHOSEN to live and work in Nepal, and, despite all kinds of poltical problems, I cannot imagine a happier place to be for myself at the moment. It's been fun getting to know all sorts of people here, asking questions, quietly doing some (what I hope is) solid work professionally and learning an enormous amount and all that . . . One advantage of living in Nepal is that you are never too far away -- literaly and metaphorically -- from all the concerns of almost all these Sajha topics :-( I have long been a poponent of creating small, small positive changes here and there, and let those changes, over time, add up to bigger changes. But many Nepalis appear to have no patience for that kind of thinking, and, some -- like Baburam -- want radical changes now, even if that means resorting to brutal violence. Still, all said and done, my attitude is certainly critical but NOT cynical. I do remain an OPTIMIST when it comes to Nepal. The country is too young (in terms of population) to be able to turn it around within a generation -- and that's the hope. And so, Nepal does have this enormous potential to be good and to be well if only we can get our collective act together .. . and that too going to happen someday. oohi ashu