Ashu, I found your first sentence quite assertive. ''This is what your little sisters and brothers will be studying in Nepal in a few years' time.'' Hence the word 'decided'. The original article had something different. ''This is what children in classes four and five will study, if Maoist plans are implemented.'' Unlike you, I don't see the Nepali people as sheep who can just vote. Therefore I am more certain about the maoists having no chance to rule the country on their own than your -that sort of certainty- about the maoists ruling Nepal in a few years time. Everyone does the same - making observations based on what they read, see, interpret and experience. Overall its been fantastic. It takes a lot of political astuteness to contain a decade long armed insurgency. Tell you what? Compared to other countries facing similar situations, ours have done remarkably well. Ofcourse there are Maoists excesses against which rest of all should unite to force them back. But curriculum? Man, thats too far-sighted rather than sheer short-sighted. Well, if hardly a hundred thousand maoists including their combatants could rule Nepal in a few years, its time for the tens of millions of Nepalese lower middle, middle and upperclasses to pack their bags and leave the country.