CK Lal\'s column this week ("Another world", #127) was woolly. It is astonishing why hidebound lefties like Lal refuse to wake up. No amount of wailing can hide the reality that globalisation is going to triumph in the end. Evevn in our own country Nepal, His Majesty King Gyanendra has rightly recognised that Nepal must accept globalisation. Then only industrialisation can take place, employment opportunities can be created and poverty can be eradicated. Democracy is secondary. First of all we must join WTO like China and work more to export products to the world market. When the country becomes rich people will drive out Maoists and peace will return. All these so-called leaders are creating hurdles. CK Lal should grow up and write more about economic and management issues. There is no "another world", Mr Lal. This is the only world. You better accept it.

Shivananda Adhikary,
email