Palpali jyu, I can't say what happened was a bad thing. I don't know if it was good thing either. Only time will tell. But the one thing I am sure of is if the King succeeds to bring the peace back to the doorstep of Nepali people, he can somewhat clean up his as well as his son's image. History is a witness that time tends to make Nepali people forget about the past. Back in 1990, King Birendra and his family were hated the most. Ten years later, he died as a great king who sacrificed his power in order to bring democracy in the country. That's looks great on the pages of the history books but did he really sacrifice for the sake of democracy? Only those people who lived that period know better. You said, "yo raja le pani is sending nepal backwards. yo panchayat era hoina ki?" which simply contradicts your previous line, "just as the maoists have sent nepal back decades in development through their destruction of infrastructure, roads, schools, health posts, bridges, etc". Those developements you have mentioned happend in Panchayeti era. So don't you think going back to that era actually is a good thing? I am not saying Panchayeti era was good. It was not. Democracy is of course a better thing. But it kind of sounds stupid when one tries to avoid 15 years of dark democratic period and goes back to panchayet era and blame everything to them. 30 years of pride (flashback: 1989 when India closed it's border, we survived in pride and dignity). Is it going to happen again? No way, thanks to Girija, KP Bhattarai, MKN and bunch of morons who practiced democracy and fked it up. So, let's not even talk about Panchayat era and try to avoid the darkest 15 years of democratic era. Blame it on SB Deuba, the impotent PM in the history of the world, blame it on the foolish pride of Girija, Blame it on KP bhattarai, blame it on the political chaos that gave us Maoists. >>he is a lobhi manchhe and i don't trust him at all. Who do you trust? King Birendra? ROTFLOL!! Hoping for better Nepal... snakebite.