'king gave democracy' is democray the king's property, to give and take away at will? the real blame lies with the feudal monarchial system under which nepal has remained a poverty-laden state for the past 300 years you can tell how insidious this system is by the fact that people are blind to its faults. you criticize the whole democratic structure because one generation of leaders were corrupt however, you want 'proof' that 'gyane is bad', even after he basically took nepal back to a middle-age type system of governance. folks, the natural nature of authoritarian rule is BAD. it takes an exceptionally moral person, an 'enlightened dictator' to make things right in a monarchy. the natural nature of a democratic system is GOOD. it takes the whole spectrum of the political leadership to be corrupt before it shows signs of failing. id rather have a system where people need to suck in order for the system to suck over a system where the leadership needs to be amazingly good before the system can do good.