Ashuji, with all due respect: your answer to my previous questions were true to the questioning/answering spirit. however, i am saddened. ok one more question if you don't mind: 1. What is the role of the civic society in the present context? (If you are of the persuasion that civic society does not exist in Nepal, what is the role of the civil society?) your answers and analyses of realpolitik are all fine and good. i won't refute them or refuse them. and i think you are as honest and as accurate as anyone has been in these forums. however, what i felt was sorely lacking was a multidimensional approach - everything is in one-D. ok, maobaadi are bad, but all bad? maobaadi are ideological cousins to the north korean politburo, so we are going to end up exactly like them, should maobaadi come to power? tulsi giri is at the helm, so the onus is upon him (and him alone) to find a solution? you present a case as an uninterested outside observer (now that is not a bad thing per se), and thus my complaint of single dimensionality. sure, the maobaadi and the royal entourage (coterie?) have a lot at stake. so they are going to do something. in fact, they are doing something. but what about us? don't we have anything at stake? don't you have anything at stake? i believe the answer to that will be in the positive. in fact, we as a collective nepali people-unit have more at stake than any individual player in the two camps, i would assert (please tell me if i should revise that). in that case, why do we still adhere to the "wait and watch" (w&w) policy? i am not asking you to make a prediction or to speculate. sorry, that was not my intent if it wasn't clear earlier. i just want you to do a cost-benefit analysis (if it comes down to that) of W&W for you and for us, the nepali people. thank you.