Nepe sir, You wrote: "Yes the visible emergence of the pro-democratic civil society and the youth is a loss to the strength of the Maoists as I explained earlier. However, it has not reached to the desired level at which things like, let's say, massive defection of the Maoist cadres to the democratic side shall take place. This time will come, however. And you will see only a handful of war criminals and silly leaders will remain on the totalitarian side and as I said earlier they will be reduced at most (that in case they continue their guerrilla warfare) to a nuisance that we can live with." I am very happy to read this paragraph. This is what I was predicting all the time. It will need a few more years and my prediction of that happening is around 2009 -2010. GP