Well Paasa, perhaps some fathers are cold hearted dictators who are absolute authorities in their family. My experience in my family has been a little different.

In my family, the rest of the family has gotten our surname from him. In that way, the identity of the family comes from the history of the family. But it doesn't stop us expressing our individuality and expressing ourselves in our individual way. I don't see an advantage in being 'sterile and identiless.' I used to see the merits of the liberal perspective. But I have hung out with way too many liberals in the States to see what that extreme looks like. I'm too disillusioned with it to have a romantic view of it. The further you get away from your cultural roots, the more you become a 'floater.'

I still feel that having a figure-head king with no power would not have been a bad thing. What's done is done. But there was no reason to get rid of the moniker of a 'Hindu Nepal' from cultural perspective or from a tourism perspective. I don't think any religious group was oppressed or offended by it. Of course now that we've removed it, putting it back, everyone will feign offence.