Given the fine scale on which different ethnic groups are intermixed across the landscape of Nepal I find this Maoist idea total lunacy and a sure way to create major ethnic tensions. Chitwan is no longer the home of Tharus only; the Kathmandu valley has not been the home of Newars only for centuries. Why give to any one ethnic group more recognition in part of the country than to other citizens living on that area? And what about all the ethnic groups who don't get a part of the country named after themselves (after all we are far more than nine ethnic groups!)? It is time that we rise beyond caste, beyond ethnicity, get everyone in the country up to a state of having equal opportunities and equal recognition. The only way to break down the feudal hierarchies created by the past monarchies is by providing equal opportunity and equal recognition to everyone, and not by creating new hierarchies based on birth!