Every successive political movement in Nepal has been about taking power away from an entrenced elite. The 1950 revolution took power away from a Kathmandu elite of Ranas, and after a short spell, power was back in the hands of a very Ktm centric Shah clan with a sprinkling of Kathmandu based Chettris and Brahmins. The 1990 revolution resulted in power being taken away from theis newer elite and transfered to other urban elites mostly from the Terai and urban centers in the mid-hills. The Maoists movement, at its core, sought to take power from these urban Terai and hill elites, to the village elites and their associates. The present movement is also pretty much on the same lines. In each case, with the jury still being out on the Maoist movement, those who sought to snatch power from the elites have won. It is time for Kathmandu's well-to-do academic, social and economic elites, especially those of the royalist mould to wake up and smell the coffee : unless there is a system, and democracy inspite of its flaws is the only real one , to handle the aspirations of all sections of society, those on the recieving end of such movement will always be these very elities .