There's no substitute for democracy. I can understand the frustrations, and thinking as if panchayat era was better. Democracy has not failed, it's just the people in politics who has brought to this situation. They will be written as the biggest losers. I don't think that all these chaos, problems, and sufferings of people would be served just by reverting to panchayat or by continuing a monarchy. If it were to happen, I'd be the first die-heart supporter of panchayat. Madhesis and all those people who're revolting are saying that they're against the monarchy. Neither will all the problems be solved just by CA election. But there's a dim hope that CA election will help to bring political stability. Even after the CA election, the politicians in the opposition will be doing 'bandh's and strikes for even a simple lame excuse. I'll say maoists and madhesis issues should be given the first priority. Madhesi problems can be handled, but I don't know about maoists. I'd say that 2046 have opened the door for many people. The state at the time could not trust the people, that's why there was so much censorship at those time, which also resumed after KG's takeover. People are uneducated and have been manipulated; that's why there're so much chaos these days. The major chunk of blame goes the present political leaders who were said to have change their attitude during KG's takeover. The scenario looks dim, but panchayat was never the best and so was the monarchy. We can talk the examples of RNAC (or NAC) having only one plane, reduced from four of panchayat, but how about all those planes by private airlines? Would panchayatis could ever dare to open it for the private sector? Did we've the right of information then? Kantipur may sometimes have manipulated the news, but it lets us know the information, which could never have happened with 'gorkhapatra'. Democracy, which gave the opportunity for 'kantipur' fails to bring the same in state-run 'gorkhapatra'. Would you cite the example of 'gorkhapatra' for arguing that democracy has not brought any improvements or would look little wider to be able to see 'kantipur' as well? Panchayatis were even scared to give the permission to open NGOs. I was not from that time period. But I just think that they were too scared of their own people, and did not trust the public. I agree with foolsparadise that much of the present chaos have arised from out of kathmandu. But the blame also goes to kathmanduites who were living with the illusion of kathmandu being the whole Nepal.