AP98 Illeteracy and poverty are the two results, not the cause. Give it a thought... Why are people of nepal poor? The Per Capita Income of Nepal is 238 I believe. Where is the money? Do you know that more than 40% of Nepalese do not even earn $50, where is the money folowing then? Do you realize that the yearly salary of the King alone is more than a quarther million dollars constitutionally, forget about queen and prince. Above that the whole budget from the government is spent lavishly in building palaces and foreign tours, buying Jaguar Cars. Does that sound familiar? About the illeteracy, aggreed that Nepalis had poor infrastructure of nepal pushed back the nepalis from education. Foreigners wanted to educate nepalis, the budget of the whole programs was directed towards some other direction. where did the money go, why are the sons and daughter of the wealthiest nepalis all studying with private budget? The country was divided with caste system such that 25% of the nepalis dont even think they should go to school.. how did all this belif of Shudra come? its all integrated into the belif the rulers of nepal groomed into the minds of Nepalis.. Thus are the results of your so called problems. The problems are not poverty and illeteracy, the problem is the system, the way things are handled and money blown. The problem is the hesitance of the society to open their eyes up. I (though not being supporter) believe that Maoist are the reasult of this system. The leaders of Maoist being People of upper cast, did let the people (illeterate and poor) realize whats been going on and are driving them. Now where will they drive them after they acheive their goal is beyond my speculation. So my friend, Understand what and why people are REVOLTING, its not against the King or SPA or Maoist, its against the system