235 years ago today, the founder of Nepalese unity breathed his last and bequeathed a powerful, cohesive state to his son and heir.

Today the legacy of King Prithvi Narayan Shah the Great is more under attack than ever before. The line of Shah Kings has been sundered, the Nepalese Army is being harrassed and humiliated, Hinduism is under assault, the enemies of the Nepalese nation have been granted free rein in Kathmandu, and national unity is being slowly killed in the name of "federalism."

God bless Nepal, and may it emerge from these dark times as it has from every other crisis before now.