Nepe, That was quite a verbal tsunami, I must say. Thank God, it remains so damn easy to trigger you off with a few chosen remarks, and off you will go, Nepe, spraying fire-and-brimstone over those who dare question your cherished hypothesis and providing us with free political entertainment. Fortunately, I remain amused by your performance, and have no interest in returning the compliments. Still, your outburst above, with the usual false accusations, has all the hallmarks of the famous Nepe Method. That is: Accuse, ridicule, show that those disagree with you are closet royalists (even when they are not), cling on to scraps of information and baloon them up to make grand theories, and insist that others are wrong and you are right even when the ground below is shifting, murky and unclear. Keep it up, Nepe. Meantime, I look forward to meeting Hari Roka again when I'm next in Kathmandu, and sharpening my understanding of 'republicanism' by reading Ron Chernow's extremely gripping biography of Alexander Hamilton later this week-end. I am half-way into that book, and I do recommend that you do read it at some point. oohi ashu