Poonte aka AnilJShahi, The pro-democracy movement is on its way to a climax. Instead of exhorting people from afar to do this or that (which is an easy thing to do!), is it NOT time for you to honor your own PUBLIC announcement on Sajha -- that you would return to Nepal fight for democracy? If not now, when? If not you, who? Surely, your coming back in 2010 after all this is over will be a disappointment, no? Forgive me, if I piss you and some of your political buddies off with this posting. You see, as a democrat, I am making sure that what you said in public here about yourself surfaces once again for the public record before some of us decide take any of your grand pronouncements seriously. Of courrse, if you have changed your mind about returning to Nepal, that's fine too. A public update will be nice. You don't have to defend yourself with anger or anything. Just come back to Nepal, if you can -- since, by your own admission, you haven't been back for long since 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down. Nepal needs you at this crucial hour. That said, I thought Pratyoush Onta, a Nepali historian, gave excellent analyses of the king's speech on BBC World Service. oohi "demanding democratic behaviours from those who chant the loudest about democracy" ashu