Indi ji, Thanks for your reply. I do not have too much to say. Newuser ji has already elaborated on what I essentially wanted to tell you. So I'll be as brief as I can. 1. My particular interest to talk with you about your recent and ongoing commentaries on Gagan Thapa was coming from our abruptly ended conversation on the same topic in the past. - http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/openthread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=19472&show=all 2. I will come back to Gagan shortly, first let me tell you this: I was not questioning your democratic right or birth right if that's what you were using when you were chastising Gagan Thapa and ridiculing upcoming pro-democracy rally in DC. My question was whether you have earned a moral right to chastise Gagan Thapa and to ridicule the pro-democracy rally somehow, that is, by doing/suggesting better things, by being/suggesting a better person, and things like that. 3. If you are aware you have a defective system, fixing it is wise. Banging your head on the wall and lamenting why it's not working is stupid. 4. You wrote: "My humble opinion Nepe ji, is, can Gyanendra escape the moral obligation (if he has moral) of the 'murtis' he stole, and innumerable crime against nation he committed, along with his infamous son who hands are soaked with blood, no less? Can the inhuman Prachanda & maoist blame the system for those thousands heads and hundreds of thousands suffering, crying fatherless sons & daughters, widows, old parents?" Good to hear that from you. Now, what you gonna do ? What you gonna do about it ? Come to Sajha in disguise, post one lamenting line and then chastise and ridicule the very people who are doing something about it, the best they know, taking personal risks, putting their face, name and life on line, so to speak ? Or you are really doing something somewhere, something better than you are critical of - without disguise, taking personal risks -that you have not shared here in Sajha and so we are unaware of it ? 4. Gagan Thapa. The most wanted person, on the list of Gyanendra's regime. So badly wanted that they had to, according to a journalist, "perform an artless drama" of releasing him for 5 minutes to capture again in the same police compound, just yesterday. I haven't have to chance to talk about Gagan Thapa here in Sajha. Whenever Gagan Thapa is named, a mad Sajha mob tries to cyber-lynch him. It is out of question to talk to this mob. Indisguise, you have been a member to this club. So I was neither particularly interested to talk to you nor was I reading the stuff you write attentively until recently. Recently I happened to see some sane and well said stuff from you in some threads. Hence my initiative to talk to you. All right, about Gagan Thapa. In a single word, he is not good enough, but he is the best available. And at this point it makes more sense to talk about his potential and prospects because there aren't too many leaders of his caliber- in talking the talk and walking the walk. It is true and all of you who said this in various ways, are right that Gagan Thapa comes with a baggage of institutional corruption in Student Unions and their causeless partisan politicizing of educational institutions, on his shoulder. (Until 2046, political activities of students made sense because that was a major part of fighting Monarchical dictatorship. However from 2046 onwards until when it became clear that fighting monarchy has not finished yet and political parties are not doing it, the political activities particularly the partisan one in the colleges was unwanted.) So there is indeed a test of redemption for Gagan Thapa before I worship him. However, he has already shown something that makes me admire him. Look at his courage. So many party leaders fled the country. Even non-political activists fled. This man decided to stay in the country despite being the prime target of Gyanendra regime. And there is no better inspiration than a courage displayed. But the most important of all ?and this has become his identity- is, Gagan Thapa is one of the men who brought student Unions to the street to call for a republic democracy- which broke so many taboos and denials and opened an all out brainstorming and reflection on what was going on and on senselessly in our country. Today things might look worse outwardly. However, inside, important and good things are happening. And that is, we are getting better picture of our malady, things are clearing up for us. We are in much better position to take an informed decision when the moment arrives. Without the storm brought by the brains of Gagan Thapa and likes, this kind of brainstorming would have to wait for years and so would the end of the conflict. So the golden question to you, Indi ji. Do you have better and more creative ideas with you ? Otherwise, I am going to go with Gagan Thapa and so will others who beleives in finding a solution than crying the problem. Nepe