Nepe, I'll request San to change the date from November 2004 to December 2001. But I must tell you that my genuine surprise at your finding or not finding rerferences to the monarchy in that humor piece (see Sajha guild: "I want my NTV") remains unabated. Other than that, hey, I greatly enjoyed reading your postings above, especially when obviously we disagree on how to interpret certain events/postings and news. Then again, if everyone agreed with me or with you on everything, we'd have a blandly unchallenging Society for Mutual Admiration (SMA) on Sajha, and though we had had something like that in the past, we, wiser now, don't want that anymore, do we? In addition, I smiled at your particularly this DEFENSE of the Nepali Pragyas. START QUOTE: Begging the king to come and save the Royal Nepal Academy does not contradict with the pro-democracy agenda- in terms of limiting the King to a cultural role. I don't think this begging was meant to give greater POLITICAL role/power to the King . . .but the intention of these finest intellectual was to depoliticize the Academy. . . .But I don't think this group of our 'finest' intellectuals have given TILANJALI to democracy. END OF QUOTE When some people (certainly not me!) pretty much say, "Raja Aau, Desh bachau", that's a vigorous a no-no to you, and you reserve some of your juiciest words to be hurled at those people, practically reducing them to caricatures. BUT When a group of self-styled Nepali intellectuals say "Raja Aau, Pragya Bachau", that's so excusable to you that you are actually able to explain away their action by saying that as long as their intentions are "good", their actions do not matter much. And was that you used that "Iraqi Minister of Information" metaphor to describe how others change positions? Life's full of surprises, isn't it? oohi "too much work and travel; gone a few days" ashu