Ashu, It's a pleasure to know you enjoyed reading me. And thank you for bringing a chance to me to reveal some secrets of my past too (Now GP ji's got one more pramaan to prove that I am his HARDCORE COMMUNIST REVOLUTIONARY !! ) And I appreciate your admittance of the mistake in the Gulid's foreword to 'I Want My NTV'. However, if you are genuinely trying to be fair, then mere miti paribartan is not enough. A serious reader who seriously read your piece, criticized it and suggested where you can do better does not deserve this ridicule from you- Consider yourself appropriately warned, and don't even dare chuckle without looking around first! You never know what goes on in other people's head I don't want to prolong the debate on this. However, I'd say this much. I don't know what exactly are you defending with that tone, but you could have simply said that your not including of the palace was an innocent omission. But then you will have to appreciate my suggestion of including the 'Behind the Curtain..' show. Which you are not ready, right ? Tai tai, yo pani thapi halun- there have been too many INNOCENT OMISSIONS on part of too many of our intellectuals to question the institution of monarchy throughout our history. And there is a reason for this PATTERN. And this is what I was trying to point to by taking on your piece. That's all. On Academician's plea, you are still refusing to make a distinction between a POLITICAL king and a CULTURAL king. The plea is not good because it has negative implications. However, the plea itself was not bad. And one more point we are not talking is that these guys were rightfully pissed off with undue partisan political interference in the institution. I am pissed off too. However, I would not bring the King to the academy as a remedy. I would do it by resisting the political pressure with pure and therefore superior academic power of the academicians and the rest of the civil society. A small damage has been done, for sure. But I think this can be and will be repaired. As much as I can see in our media, more sensible intellectuals have criiticized these pleaders. I have yet to read anything in support and I will be totally surprised if any of these 'finest' intellectuals will say that this plea is a part of 'Raja Aau Desh Bachaau' aandolan. Anybody who goes that way will find out his 'Habigat' in due course of time.