Much ballyhoo is being made of the royal visit to eastern Nepal. I think the conclusions drawn from the visit are pretty misplaced, and even the King (who is a very smart man) himself knows this. ........ After the fall of Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte entered Paris with his army. Oceans of defeated people lined up to see Napoleon, their new master. Napoleon's aide who was accompanying him remarked glowingly: Your Lord, you see, so many people have turned up to welcome you. They love you! There must easily be at least 50,000 people in the crowd. Napoleon thought pensively for a while and retorted: Don't be stupid! The day I'm hanged, three times that number will turn up! Such was Napoleon's genius!!! ........ The moral of the story: self-proclaimed monarchists like bhoonte and his like are a shame to the cause of monarchy. They are merely embarrassing the institution of monarchy with their half-baked views, which smack of sycophancy. They belong to the same category of people who dragged the institution of monarchy into controversy, sullied its image, and created the divide between the people and the institution of monarchy in the first place. There is no doubt people love the king, but it's the sycophants who surround the king that they hate. The sycophants' only aim is to gain at monarchy's expense. Frankly, not half baked sycophantic views such as those espoused by Bhoonte and his like who are only embarrasing the institution of monarchy, but only penetrating analysis can help strengthen it (institution of monarchy) by pointing out where this revered institution's gone wrong and how it can be corrected to restore people's faith in it. Criticising the institution of monarchy for all its recently-acquired faults is not an anti monarchy position: it's a public service! And this fact is very much misunderstood by many Sajhaites, with the result that sycophants are on the ascendancy in this forum.