Newuser writes: "There is a group of Nepali intellects who have already decided god-knows-on-what-basis that maoists will unilaterally sieze power in a few years time." To my knowledge, nobody has decided anything. The future is too uncertain for anyone to lay a claim on it. What some people, including myself, have done, is this. A. Looked at what Hisila Yami said in March 2007. B. Read the comment by Mark Turin Maoists' educational style (as of March 2006). and then, putting these things together, asked the question: Is this what we are going to get about education in Nepal? If so, we'd better be careful. Nepe is not worried about this. That's because he's been personally promised by some ICG guy -- with a crystal ball clearer than Rani Pokhari's water -- that Maoists can't do what they say they will do. So, why worry? Newuser too has seen the future. Hence his proclamation: "The Maoists have learned tolerance in a year. Now as they will know how it feels to be a part of the government, they will understand what it takes to become a legitimate political force." As for people like me, who tends to think about future in probabilstic terms depending on what I read, see, hear and interpret from all sources while adjusting those probilities on a daily basis, that sort of certainty smacks of sheer short-sightedness. And if Nepali people were so empowered, then, why the hell have they NOT been consulted about the country is being run since May of 2006? What are they -- just sheep who can vote? oohi ashu