Thank you again everyone for your best wishes. I hope I can live up to your expectations. Karmarana: I look forward to the day it appears online in PDF form, and I will be sure to post a message in sajha that day. It is the policy of my department and research group to post dissertation PDFs online; I need to check with them how quickly they will do so. I look forward to critical feedback. Paradoxnemesis, if this thread appears at the top again it is because people are posting to it. I recommend that you don't open it. Meanwhile to set the record straight, while there have been more generous donors than me, I *have* made a contribution to the andolan injured people's relief fund. If you need proof, send me an e-mail, I will direct you to website that lists donors and amounts contributed. But give me your name also so that I may check whether you have contributed.