Thanks for starting the thread sitara, it is a privilege seeing you shed deep emotions. I often ask myself what would buddha do if he encountered such predicament fostered by capricious politics and ever increasing despair and enmity among nepalese people. I remember my childhood walking with grandpa through the rustic streets of jawalakhel with sparrows chirping. A good story teller he was, he never ceased talking about the good old halycon times, birth of Israel, leadership of Gandhi and Kennedy and the power packed jabs of Cacius Clay...his voice was at a perfect pitch...slow and snorous. And I wonder if anyone sounds like him today.I call it a voice of peace because he knew what he was saying and he knew what came after him. I carry my nine month old daughter Grace through the golf course sometime talking to her like my grandfather did....I try to talk about the fall of berlin wall and end of iran iraq war....only finding myself trying to follow up saying discrimination and hatred still retain in the hearts of germans and that Uncle sam found himself fighting iraqis again. I do not know what comes after me...yet another tsunami, another bin laden or chemical ali? another fidel castro or prachanda? and ah well..the good old gaddafi? One fine morning I might wake up to see the world had ended and I did not even know. I often ask myself if we really need Gandhi, Kennedy or Buddha to save the world, but they are long dead...probably vowing never to return back again. But we need a savior...not just one.... the global population demands more. In the wake of this crisis and the absence of our so called leader why can't we be our own buddha or gandhi? Why can't we disseminate love and carmaderie among us all? Why can't we all crave for peace instead of inventing a new software chip? I would want my daughter Grace to be a messenger of peace and go off to darchula, khartoum or ulan bator. We have enough lawyers to squabble and enough engineers to build the whole world. May all be in peace.... John (along with grace)