====================================================================== Here's a message from a person I know in Nepal. This is ... of Nepal. Please use this email address now onward to send me any message, but it may take days to collect the mail and reply to due to the unavoidable circumstances that I am working in and you are aware of that. This is to let me inform you that I am still alive. And like earlier, I managed to sneak out to ... dispatch this mail. The political circumstances are still grave and remained unchanged but more scrutinized. People are under extreme pressure, and are not aware of what is happening where. For the outsiders, it seems "normality" but suppressed. Tourists are stranded. Political, human rights and democracy workers like me are moving from place to place to evade arrest. All the top political leaders were either put on house arrest or under arrest. The king came to power like General Musharraf of Pakistan. :-( All dictators behave like the same, yes? Although the right to gather has been suspended, those supporting the king's unconstitutional and authoritative regime were free to come down on the streets to demonstrate. In order to fly outside the country (currently New Delhi flights have been resumed), the traveler has to first send his name and other details to the army and get clearance and then the travel agency issues a ticket and he has to go to the airport with the ticket physically to okay his ticket and then could fly only if seats are available on the flight date. The leading newspapers are writing editorials on how socks keeps your feel warm, what is archery and such redundant stuffs as all the newspapers, radio and TV stations are censored and are in control of the army. The reports reaching me in my hideout says that the army took over the telephone exchange and they allow the local and domestic services an hour a day but the time is not specified of the day. There is a load-shedding (power cut) from yesterday, too. All the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) were captured by the army and they switched off the routers and the main national gateway from the day one. The country, for the outsiders, seems so calm and quiet like in a graveyard after the macabre. Unconfirmed reports said that India is about to embargo the country. Actually Nepal is a more India-locked than land-locked from the three sides. And China seems to support the monarch's move. Just yesterday, the monarch issued a decree that the establishment shall have the right to nationalize the properties of anyone who is suspected of involvement in any "scrupulous" activities that affects the spirit of the monarch's moves. It is worth mention here that this message falls under the above category! Therefore, I urge you to write to your governments and local parliamentarians to put pressure on the establishment in Nepal. It would be a great contributions.