Hi everyone, Thanks to those who shared their ideas. I know that being a concerned Nepali noone can ignore this situation of our country at the moment. There are many of us who think about it everyday and many more who wish things were better. Anyways, I personally think that this has also got to do with our cultures, traditions and the social structure. By saying "culture and traditions", I mean those practices in our society which do not seem to be contagious but are the root cause of many problems. 1.the hierarchial structure of our government offices where a good relation with a senior officer is a must. it is more important than their job. 2.the feeling that there is nothing that can be done. what can I alone achieve when noone else seems to care. this is because we had many bad experiences in the past. 3.the higher level education system of our country which is highly politicized. i know there are many students who do not think pelting stones or burning tyres would do any good. but daily protest by students against trivial matters have been a daily routine. i acknowledge the fact that they are resentful due to the poor leadership. but many of them do not come to protest because of genuiene reasons. 4.we hate our political leaders. but how can every political leader be bad? so instead of saying all of them are corrupt, i believe that even if many of them want to do good they do not have the potential. so i say we have incapable leaders instead of saying bad leaders (incapabe imply bad to some extent). it is not an easy task to lead a country as diverse as Nepal where people are uneducated and their leaders can always use them to their advantage. (the present terai unrest) 5.in a way there is a feudalistic model everywhere in our societies. the King was the head of state and had enourmous power(i still believe that the King has enormous influence in the political scenario even if his constitutional status is almost that of a common citizen). then there is a King in every gvt offices (i am not trying to say that every gvt officer is as bad as the king). then there is a King in every family (the father or in other words our male dominated society which still mostly functions on a belief that women are supposed to stay at home and work in the kitchen which automatically renders almost half the population unproductive in a way) I belive that people are dumb in every country. So it depends upon the leaders to show them the way. afterall the leaders wouldn't be called leaders unless they could make everyone else follow them. (common people make their decisions on what everyone else is saying and they act more on their emotions then their intelluctual abilities. it was the same people who hailed the king when he took power. the same people revolted against him to overthrow him. Same in the then Nazi Germany/Iraq). These are some of my not-so-mature thoughts. But i think they make some sense at least to me. I have nothing personal against anyone and am not trying to portray a certain group/organization as being inherently bad/wrong. I hope you people can also see something here if not find the clues that are missing/do not make sense. Please feel free to drop a few words ! YuvA