GP ji, If you want to be identified as a Congressi, great. But my point was that I do not see any congressi-ness in your postings that I have read during last three years. You are cursing and swearing on everybody but are silent about Gyane and the institution he represents. That is the only consistency about you I have seen in Sajha during last three good years. I know you were a Congressi once upon a time. But, are you saying you are still a Congressi ? Which group, idea and inclination at present are you close to, then ? Tara Nath Ranabhat, perhaps ? Deuba ? KP Bhattarai ? GPK definetly not. Nara Hari Acharya, I doubt. Daman Nath Dhungana, no need to pronounce his name. Let's forget about persons and the neeti/prabritti they represent. Even on a pure ideological basis, you do not sound like a Congressi at all. I have never heard or met a strange Congressi like you who think Freedom and Democracy (my personal ideals and what I believe I have been promoting in Sajha all the time) are Maoist things. Look how silly assertion you are making about me, I am drawing this line based on your continuous support on Maoists. There was no better guard to Maoist issues in this Sajha.com than you are. Either you are a khusket unable to make distinctions between different things or have a jaundiced eyes with your attachment to the monarchy to see me supporting the Maoists or being one. There is nobody in Sajha more anti-Maoist than me if being anti-Maoist takes more than swearing and, I would call, masterbating (like Prem Dai and often GP ji yourself do). I am anti-Maoist for their date-expired ideology, the communism. I am anti-Maoist for their violence against the innocent. Not only that, I am anti-Maoist for the very reason you probably put me (a republican) and the Maoists (also republicans) in the same basket for. I know you have not been able to comprehend this for whatever weakness you have. But I have been making very clear distinction between the kind of commitment (actually the lack of) the Maoists have for the democratic republicanism and the kind I have. For me, the democratic republicanism is the ultimate, final, last, that's it, political system. Being myself a former Maoist, in a sense, and watching them closely over the years, I know, and I believe every student of elementary politics know that the Maoists are not ideologically committed to the democratic republicanism. Their goal is so called people's republicanism- a communist republic state, the standard western media tag for the news related to the maoists, for those not well versed in communist jargons. These are so elementary things, GP ji. And I am surprised that a Doctor of Philosophy does not get it. Okay, let's leave the Ph.D. Let's take on your Congressi credentials. So what kind of a good old Congressi are you who does not have this much elementary knowledge of politics ? ================= Ashu wrote: That ["I want my NTV"] was a piece of humor, written around 1996 at the expense of the state-run Nepal Television, and later recycled on Sajha for amusement. The reason I did not respond to your criticisms earlier was that your complaint was so pathetically nit-picking over issues that were not even there that I thougt it was best to keep quiet. I have already given the link to the conversation between you and me on 'I want my NTV'. So I will leave it to the readers to decide for themselves how PATHETIC my criticism and inquiry were. Pathetically nit-picking they might be, however you did respond to those pathetic nit-pickings with a great enthusiasm then. You had defended yourself by presenting two pieces of evidences that would prove you have guts to take on the monarchy ! One was your criticism of Naya Sixa Neeti of King Birendra and the next one was your signature on the petition against then adirajkumar Paras Shah. And I believe I had admired you for that not knowing too much about you then. Over the years following that conversation, I would have dozens of debates with you and learn your position regarding the monarchy in Nepal and so on. As I have made an astrological prediction about you that someday you are going to be a hardcore republican like myself, I take some comfort in your phrase "my alleged pro-monarch bias" for a hint of refusal to have that dreadful thing. A small thing in right direction, I would say. Be kind also to at least give some hint on how you took on the monarchy in your stand-up. Don't leave this hopeful fella in limbo.