Shirish, I think the people here are talking about unpremeditated rather than premeditated or, at least, what can be called a SUBTLE bias. The points you made earlier are, therefore, not quite corresponding to the allegations made. As far as Rabindra Mishra's article cited by the original poster is concerned, the concluding line of the following statement made by Rabindra is not even a bias or bending. It's somebody's pure imagination. Rabindra's concluding para: >The king has been repeatedly emphasising that >the people and the international community must >choose either him or the rebels, whom he always >refers to as criminals. >And, it seems, many are ready to choose him - >despite the conditions attached. Many are ready to choose the King ???? No, I am not questioning Rabindra's speculation. I mean he is entitled to his speculations. What is disturbing here is an implied assumption that King's case (me or the Maoists) has been bought/validated by public. I have never heard any report (by BBC correspondence or any media) in which even a single person, forget about the whole public, buying King's "either me or them" case. So the assertion that "many are ready to choose the King" is not originating from an objective reality. And whether the assertion is right or wrong, I will leave this to the readers themselves. Nepe