" I too grew up reading what THEY made us read, listening to what THEY made us listen to, and privy to information that THEY chose to provide. If this process of brain-washing is not manipulation, then I seriously do not know what is. True, Shiva Shrestha's action has become an issue on this discussion forum now. That is becasue some of us are at least beginning to question the conditions of our growing ups, and are trying to free ourselves. " Ok let me reiterate what I said earlier. Nobody is forced to dhog the royals. No where in our school text books we are taught or asked to do that. We are taught to respect the institution. What Shiva did was out of his free will. If you do not want to respect the constitutional institution of the country, then that is your problem, not Shiva's, or mine or of other people who choose to respect the institution.