डल्लीरेशम, वर्ल्डम्याप, सिरे, शुभेच्छाको लागि धन्यवाद छ है । महाराजलाई संयुक्त राष्ट्रसंघको सभा हुँदी कसैले मानमनितो नदिने पक्का भएपछि मुख देखाएर बेईज्जत हुनु भन्दा मुख नदेखाएर बेईज्जत हुनु राम्रो सुझेर सवारी रद्ध गरिबक्सेको अनुमान छ । महाराज सवारी नहुने भनेपछि -यालीका उत्साहीहरुको किञ्चित उत्साह स्वभाविक रुपले कम भयो । परन्तु सवाल सन्देशको हो र खास गरेर नेपालमा आगो झै फैंलदै गईरहेको नागरिक समाजको आफ्नै पहलको लोकतन्त्रको स्पष्ट र दृढ उद्देश्य भएको आन्दोलनप्रति ऐक्यबद्धता देखाउने ट्याम यहि हो भनेर शुकबार काम गर्ने दिनै भएपनि बिदा लिएर -याली गरेरै छाड्ने निर्णय भयो । -यालीमा भाषण कम, कलात्मक प्रस्तुती ज्यादा गर्ने योजना बनेको छ भन्ने खबर छ । रिपोट गर्ने नै छु । *** *** *** *** Raybati, As they say, if you are not a part of the solution, then you are a part of the problem. Your blanket negativism is no better than the very thing you are negative about. Look at the picture below. This was the first civic meeting in Kathmandu where 10-15,000 people brought political leaders not to listen to their bull shit but to tell them what bull shit they have been talking all this time. Civic leaders, artists and poets spat right on the face of political leaders by their criticism and satire on their kartoot and all that. This kind of pressure has started to show it's effects. Political parties are changing. They have made tremendous progress on getting rid of their ambiguity about democracy. There are a lot of other thing they are fumbling. But if the civil society can keep the pressure on, it will surely hasten the process of party's reforms. And NY rally is, as I said, Diaspora's equivalent of a rally of Citizen's movement in Nepal. And you are totally negative about it. What's your suggestion for us to do better ? Citizen's meeting at Baneswar August 5, 2005