On a Sunday night before the election in 1999, I had bought some election materials for the Nepal Workers and Peasants Party (Nepal Majdur Kisan Sangh ) from a passing peddler. I was sitting on the street corner drinking tea and browsing through the pamphlet. A group of men came over to talk with me. They saw what I was reading and one said, "Are you going to become Chicagošs Rohit?" And I said, "Wešve already got one. His name is Daley." Although I tried to use humor to deflate the incident, I could tell that I had alienated some and made others friendlier. Politics in Bhaktapur is a serious everyday concern, as or even more important than religion. Whom you talk with and whom you associate with not only have an effect on how you are perceived, but a direct impact on your quotidian affairs. And what indicates onešs affiliation is not always clear at first.