Rahulvai wrote: "के त मेलम्चि बनाउन चिनतन् ले बिदेशिको दलालि गरेर कमाएको डलर् खर्च गर्न तयार् हुनु हुन्छ त?" Ah! The level of discourse! Now, we are really in Nepal, the country which -- despite its fragile pride -- itelf is run by bideshi ko dollars :-) This is the kind of statements that I used to hear from zamindars in Kailali in another context in the 1990s. Tharu activists Dilli Chudhary and Yagya Raj Chaudhary would visit these zamindars (I would tag along!), and try to raise issues about turning kamaiya-labor into wage-labor, and the zamindars would say something close to "for that, are you willing to बिदेशिको दलालि गरेर कमाएको डलर् खर्च गर्न तयार् हुनु हुन्छ त?" Deja Vu, indeed. That said, if -- let's say -- a "clever trickster" such as Chintan with very little institutional base and "no knowledge" can indeed sideline "Nepal's genuine intellectuals" (whoever they are!) from the debates that surround Nepal ko Bikas (as some of these anti-Chintan people claim), then, does that NOT say much about the surprising power of Chintan and the intellectual impotence of these ""Nepal's genuine intellectuals"? Hmmmm . . . food for thought. I think, the truth is: Some people just hate Chintan. With a passion. With a vengeance. And that's fine. Now I am finding out that the song-and-dance routine that these critics invent to justify their hatred for Chintan is much more amusing than anything outrageous that Chintan himself does. oohi ashu oohi ashu