Shiv, Thank you for your postiing, For the sake of kura-kani, let me share these thoughts. Calling you repeatedly on the phone is pestering. Flooding your inbox with "give" emails is pestering. Accosting you on the street to make you give money is pestering. BUT Reminders on a PUBLIC FORUM, which people are free to ignore, do not add up to pestering. For this kura-kani, I'd define pestering rather differently. ******* That said, on a DIGRESSIONARY note, maybe we have all these problems in Nepal because no one pesters anyone else over anything. Everyone thinks they are "so above" pestering. For instance, 13 Tamangs got killed in Nagarkot recently. Who is being single-mindedly PESTERED to seek justice for their deaths? No one. Who is doing the single-minded pestering? No one. A week from now, mark my words, those poor Tamangs will ALL be forgotten, and things will have moved just fine on in KTM. Utterly sad, but true. This was the trend in Nepal in the past; this will be the trend in future UNLESS we develop many single-minded Pesters-In-Chief who will put their lives in harm's way and risk popularity to pesteringly find the answers to the question as to why 13 totally innocent villagers had to die because some idiot was running amok near an army barrack. In other words, who in the army hierarchy is going to be suspended, fired and tried over the deaths of 13 poor Nepalis? Sadly, and this may be a jump in logic here, by worrying about the pesterings over small "public" things, we fail to build up "pestering potential" for larger "public" things. ******** oohi ashu