Poonte wrote: "When the very basic tenets of democracy are either questioned (Nepali pariprekchhya maa maattra bhayeni) by you on this forum, or threatened by KingG's supporters, or traunced by him . . ." No. Why are you this insecure about democracy? Didn't you read The Nepali Times which had a report of a poll (conducted by ID Analysts and AC Nielsen pre-Feb 2005) that concluded that: *Three-quarters of Nepalis believe in democracy Source: http://www.nepalitimes.com/issue239/headline.htm The basic tenets of democracy, Poonte, as the poll results too verify, have never been questioned as such. Let's not have this "chicken little" syndrome, shall we? The fundamental question is: How do we make our democracy work for us so that it better reflects the hopes and the aspirations of ALL Nepalis? Obviously, chanting the stock phrases just to be some sort of martyr will not do us any good, I am afraid. But thinking hard about what we want out of our democracy and how we can legally achieve what we want (with incentives, competitions and representations in place) is going to require a lot of debates, kura-kani, pnethy of looking at counter-examples and trade-offs and trials-and-errors and so on. oohi ashu