Thank you for that most forthright and plain-speaking article by Pashupati Shumshere JB Rana (Reform vs revolution, #76) and your editorial The morning after in the same issue that bolsters his argument that this is the time the government should launch a serious drive to address rural development, control corruption and to simply show that it is there. The government must use the emergency to galvanise the political will to raise internal resources, give the economy a kick-start and address the roots of the Maoist crisis. Time is running out.

Gaurab Regmi
Tokyo