Indisguiseji, With due respect to your opinions on a topic related to Nepal, which you have all the rights to express as a citizen of equal status, could I sincerely put my differences on some of your points please? No doubt your comment is very genuine and absolutely flawless, I just want to put some of the things in my perspective to counter your arguments. Hopefully, you will take this in a positive note as part of a healthy debate between the sajhaites. You are doubtful about the purpose of the rally and you've assumed that it doesn't have any signifcance:Aba hune kehi hoina tyai ni aba garcha bhanne gaross ta aba. You have said 'garcha bhane gaross ta aba.' That's truly democratic opinion. You think that the rally is useless and prefer not to join the rally, that's your right. Your decision on whether taking part in it or not solely depends on your own judgement. But pre-empting the result of the program on a negative note (hune kehi hoina) will obviously play down the effort of the organizers. Still it's your right to make predictions but the organisers and the supporters can simultaneously defend their intentions and debate against your arguments. They can certainly say that the points raised by Indisguise are wrong and this rally can obviously make some difference, guys it's worth attending, please do come and so and so. Saying so doesn't mean that they are attacking your personal judgement, rather it is their defence in favour of the rally.Lets suppose you have announced a plan spending considerable amount of your time and resources. If someone comes to you and say-'hey Indi this is useless, it won't work out.' How do you feel? You will surely be frustrated, won't you? When you explicitly presume that the rally will be useless, it relays that you are strictly against the cause of the rally and you don't want others to participate in it. Now as I have already said, it's you who makes your personal preferences. But if you comment negatively about the rally which is organised to voice support for the restoration of democracy, human rights and civil liberties, there will be no fault on the orgainsers' part to point fingers at your commitments on those issues. Forget not taking part, forget making no comments but you have directly questioned the intention and purpose of the programme. When you venture to do that, you should be prepared to take the criticism of being supportive to the King's camp or at least being blindfolded about the political situation of the country. Your notions about the political leaders and maoists and the King are very fair. A truly independent judgement indeed. But as the organisers have never associated this rally to putting the leaders or maoists in the helm of power, you should not connect the issue of restoring fundamental rights and getting back the inept leaders in power together. It's a matter of being in favour of civil rights and press freedom in Nepal or against. We cannot expect the kind of comments that you have made above from a person who supports freedom and democracy in Nepal. Secondly, you have been very critical of the Nepali leaders and at the same time you are unable to provide your service as a leader. May be politics is not your cup of tea, but if you cannot make any contribution for the betterment of leadership, you will loose your rights to criticize against any flaws from the leadership in the future that could have been avoided with the help of your contribution. Hope you got my point. You are such a conscious citizen and still if you dont want to play your part in the process, how can you point fingers at the politicians. If you think Gagan Thapa is not a leader, why don't you become a leader yourself or else why don't you show a third person who is the right candidate? And if you don't have any alternative, why do you resort in criticizing Gagan, who in many people's view is the best among the worsts. I mean, you guys have to participate in politics in some way or atleast make a small contribution that will help correcting politics in Nepal. Otherwise, it's not worthwhile criticizing everybody. Either you have to take the King's camp or the anti-monarch camp or your own camp of leadership, if you want to have your say on the issue. Unless you are involved in the process, criticisms won't help correcting the mess.Don't expect Gyanendra or Girija or Gagan or Nepe to deliver overnight success in Nepal as long as people of your calibre are reluctant to contribute their share in making the political process better. Let us all explore our participatory roles now so that we can force our leaders to act responsibly. If we don't, we have no rights to criticize them. If they have to fight for democracy and freedom in the country without our help, how can we expect them delivering for us. Prajantra layune bela ma maile dukkha garda oo guff lagaera basyo, aile prajantra aaepachhi bhaag khojne? That was the way our leaders treated us before.Good leaders don't do that but it takes good citizens to become good leaders. Now, if we want to ensure them being responsible to us, we must participate in some ways in the process.That would beging by participating in the DC rally (if possible). As far as the cronies of Girija and makune are concerned, genuine democracy and civil rights supporters should outnumber and outclass them so that they wouldn't be able to mess up. (damn, so long Indi bro, trying to debate on the subject only. If you have read fine, if you didn't thats also fine but don't have to take it otherwise)