I smell some Marxists here. >>But it is only obvious that his INSTANTANEOUS free will had been, like many other Nepalis', manipulated over time by how he grew up. Just because you have been staying in America for few years, and that you don?t give a ?dhog? to anyone but rather have accustomed yourself to handshakes does not mean that giving a ?dhog? is a bad thing. On one hand you shout about ?free yourselves? kinds of slogans while on the other hand you deride someone just because he bowed a little much than what is considered to be conventional. What does it mean to be ?free? anyway? Is it being against royals or being against conventional traditions? Coming to this manipulation thing, I don?t think there is this big problem of ?manipulation? by royals, as you seem to suggest. We are most vulnerable to manipulations when we ourselves are ignorant. My grandparents would probably have believed that the King was a form of good. Do I believe the same thing? Hell no. Does Shiva Shrestha believe the same thing? Probably not.