I don't know if I should be taking the charge of this thread of Ashu and respond to all the postings posted here. Since some of the questions/points/remarks are really important and interesting too, I take liberty to reply to this round of quiries/comments. ---- Brighteyes, A Roundabout Way. Very interesting phrase ! And hey, you seem to have bright eyes. How did you make them ? ---- Pieces, I am genuinely moved by your sincere thoughts and feelings and your wonder for a perfect world. How wonderful this world would have been, had we all been as compassionate as you are. But we are not. Humans are animals. They live with their animal instinct for survival - competing with each other individually or by forming classes for resources. A gentleman had a brilliant idea - eliminating classes might eliminate that animal instinct. A very expensive experiment was carried out. Did not work. It created one more class of the classes. The Eliminator class and the marked-for-elimination class. And the competition became even more severe and more brutal. The lesson ? We have no other than accepting the competition as the way of our life. All we can do is to strive for making that competition as fair as possible, and that too by the competition itself. And that's what Democracy is in a nutshell. UML, NC, RPP, the King, the Maoists, you, me, testdirector, Pink Floyd all are parties to a competiton for survival in various forms. I can not answer all the questions you've asked. However, I am sure if you start with what I have just said you will get answers to those powerful questions yourself. ------------------------ Lazywally wrote: If democracy (as a means) is what you want, surely you are smart enough to know that before implementing it, we need to patch the holes in the system that were exploited by corrupt politicians who brought democracy to its knees. What changes are necessary to the multi party democratic system of government for it to not fail like it did before? Ever thought about that? If you have no answer, wait for someone who has one, instead of wasting our time with pointless mud slinging. I am 100% with you. And it might not be THE answer if you have already a ready answer. But here is my views on how to patch the holes in the system that is failing now. target=new href="HowTo Patch the Holes in Nepali Democracy" target="http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/column.cfm?extraid=622"