The unprecedented load shedding of ten hours a day that has gripped Nepal, especially the capital Kathmandu, seems to have very sinister implications. And the warning by the prime minister that it might be increased to even eighteen hours a day impelling the government to impose an emergency, smacks of some kind of premeditated scheme and has, in a way, substantiated the peoples' apprehensions. That it has made life most miserable to the capital-dwellers, apart from totally disrupting the social and economic activities of the nation, needs no emphasis. In a situation when the whole country is groaning under unimaginable chaos and lawlessness the pitch darkness that envelops Kathmandu for the greater part of the night has turned the city into an unsolicited boon for ruffians, thugs and looters. The poor city dwellers helplessly watch their poor homes being looted. The government acts even more helpless. How and where can they find security for their lives and properties the Nepalis don't know. The government, it is being reported, is planning on a rabid scheme of installing a diesel plant to produce 200 mega watt of power. The suggestion might look too loony to ordinary men. But, the seeing eyes cannot miss the extremely smart and wily move of turning a pauper into a wealthy man overnight. Whether it will spell ruin and disaster for the country is none of their concern. If the absence of an honest, dedicated and patriotic administration and partisan policies are the preface of the "New Nepal", the authors should go back to the jungle because the overwhelming poor Nepalis will never accept such perverse projects and policies. Poor Nepalis are very tolerant and will not lose their cool as long they are not driven to extreme. Not that they are not aware who is to blame for their miseries and misfortunes and how and why the fissiparous tendencies are spelling dangers for the nation’s integrity. Since they know their limitations, they would never act in rashness. But no body should have any misapprehensions that they would permit any body to cross their "Lakshman Rekha" they have set for themselves. It is not necessary to remind any one how a Gurkha thinks and works when it comes to defend the values he prizes more than his life. And county's integrity is one and democracy is another. The votaries and defenders of independence and democracy, the regional or global policemen, would not fail to take note that democracy as well as her integrity in Nepal is in great turmoil and danger. And it is their utmost duty to come to her help. It is time that they have to prove to the world that they do practice what they profess. Indeed, they might have their own interests to look after.  But, they cannot leave the smaller and weaker nations to become desperate. It might be even foolish to always believe that big and powerful nations, all the time, are guided by morality and uprightness. But it would also not be fair to think that the world is totally devoid of justice. As such, we would like to exhort all patriotic Nepalis to wake up and gird up their loins to face the extreme eventuality of saving their values, principles and legacies from going into extinction. Would they be willing to lose their identity too?