Abuse of the word 'democracy' is not unique to Nepal. That said, I agree, at least when I am in a philosophical mood, "Nepal Democracy Forum" is a self-aggrandizing name. One justification could be that the 150 members of the forum have 150 different model of democracy for Nepal. We already have a 'to do' list with 150 priority tasks for new government of Nepal. One hot thread that is running has this title "Crown should be inactivated until CA gives the verdict" Here is the original posting of that thread. From: ... Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:44:53 -0000 Subject: Re: Crown should be inactivated until CA gives the verdict To: "nepal democracy" I [ ] missed the list. Somewhere I saw a black list of people. If Gyanendra Shah is excluded from the list, then I have a strong objection to that. It is both morally and legally (yes, Natural Law !) wrong to exclude one person from the group of people who together committed the same wrongdoing. If somebody has argument against it, I would like to hear. I presume "practicality" might be one such argument. I say, what practicality ? Is it against the mandate of Jana-andolan ? Will it not be supported by the people ? Will it make the King do another coup ? As far as my view is concerned, [the] bottom line about the mandate of Jana-andolan is that Jana-andolan said NO to monarchy but gave one chance of CA for it to survive if it can. So, we (this forum and the politicians) should treat the crown as inactivated for now until and if CA re-instated it. No "His Majesty" please. The new government should call itself "Nepal Government". I would personally make an appeal to Prof. .......jyu (Thank you for your comments in BBC yesterday) and .........jyu to give legal counseling regarding this matter ("Nepal Government") to us and to our counterpart in Nepal. ...... _______