Nepe ji writes:"A lot of issues that our 'experts' link to the Maoist uprising actually can be addressed by the constitutional Monarchy alone." I would have appreciated more if he had given a few examples of those single quoted 'Experts'. I disagree that "The general directionlessness of the whole decade of our 'democracy' was a direct and indirect result of that." When we talk about democracy, its direction is already fixed, that is democracy --freedom--, I don't think we need more elaboration in the definition of democrcacy. What ever happened (some wrong parts) in last dozen of years in Nepal, these were happened in the course of finding a right direction to Democracy, while destination remains again as democracy. The parliamentary parties were trying several different course and in the middle of route the Maoist forces came and hijacked the whole system. So, I disagree with you that "Somebody had to come to fix that. Somebody from outside the system. Somebody illegal ! Maoists got that job !" The section of leadership in those parliamentarian parties who are honestly trying to find right track to the projected destination "democracy" will finally lead and fix the problem. Maoists will be proved wrong and they are not in favor of democracy, lets not forget this. Anyone who says that Maoist leadership is for democracy, then you are trying to confuse peoples. In that case the definition of your democracy and freedom might be different. GP