Nepal before and after King Gyanendra I have seen it.................. the problem is have you?????? so in your point Nepal was doing great before Gyane????? wow buddy what can I say to you..............well just to refresh you .......before King Gyanendra even cane to the picture.......... people took the power from King Birendra (BIRE CHOR DESH CHHOD, PAMPHA DEVI MURDABAAD) (DEMOCRACY JINDABAAD......PANCHAYAT MURDABAAD) ANY FLASH BACK BRO??? so we elect leaders and let then run the country....am I right so far????? ............but seeing most nepali people dont even know the meaning of democracy and what good it can do.....these leaders raped nepal with corruption, afer that all the different parties (SPA) did was pull eachothers leg to gain the power and peice of bonous(MONEY AND LUXURY) that came attached with the power .............Unnoticed the effect of these lawless corruption gave birth to maoists......a small band of unsatisfied people....... the leaders wer busy engaging in the power struggle.....election after election........One party starts something but before it is completed there is election and new party halts everything.....the rott goes over and over..unchecked and un concerned by the government the maoist faction grows in number and power day by day .....untill they get the governments attention after killing a lot.........WAR IS ON BETWEEN THE POLITICAL LEADERS RUN GOVERNMENT AND THE MAOIST as they are now termed terrorists by the government and the international communities.............................Sadly.......King birendra and almost all his family is murdered..............same people who hated him ...mourned his death like they mourn their own father by shaving their heads and mourning for 13 days.........Situation worsens in Nepal ....thousands die...the government can do nothing ....corruption is at its highest and people have started to loose hope............Without Warning King Gyanendra steps in Sacks the current government...........order harsher battles by the armed and security forces against the maoist factions ...who see defeat comming soon.. they out of desperation start killing more innocent, abducting children from schools to fight and get help from india secretly........politicians are mad with this new change..... ask India to help them........KIng warns India in the SAARC meeting to stay away from Nepals internal matters............King visits all over Nepal despite security concerns.... Birendra hardly did that................he is desprately trying to bring the maoist to stop and bring peace back.................IN INDIA....sworn enemies...the maoist leaders and the SPA thugs form an alliance ....a very strong one.........LOL its like eating your own shit when you are starving................thats how desprate these SPA LEADERS were for power................everything the king does.....they counter it so to make sure that the king doesnot succeed.......KIng Desprately tries but these leaders along with India support block all his efforts......India stops vital supply of daily needs ( BLAME THE KING) politicians failed our country(BLAME THE KING)..india Toys with us to controll nepals developementand king steps up to the plate......we get short supplied(BLAME THE KING) maoists kill more, abduct, extort, destroy national property(BLAME THE KING)........no water electricity (BLAME THE KING).................then enters the enraged and false informed and motivated local poor people of Nepal...whose condition is the result of years of power struggle between the leaders and their parties+ the Maoists too... brain washed that everything that has been going wrong since decades ago when democracy was announced.................was nothing but KING GYANENDRAS FAULT.... The king had the armed forces under him, He could have ordered MARSHALL LAW and created havoc and death everyhwere he wanted with such power under him.......his one command was enough for the army and the armed security forces to unleash hell to the unruly rioting anti king crowds...just like in Burma......what has the international community done for burma who still has a military rule where thousands die unaccounted for huh ??????... King Gyanendra could have done the same .../.........BUT to avoid further bloodshed in his beloved Kingdom and his beloved citizens the king gracefully stepped down and gave up his power to the people........about Paras yeah he is one Bad crown prince.........JUST ONE...but look in nepal now there is thousands of paras running around nepal in the name of maoists...lawless mongers.....who now are above the law and has done far more crimes than JUST ONE PARAS........PAras accidently killed a couple of people while driving carelessly.............and wasnt punished...............................now that was wrong ............................ unlike Prachand and SPA killed thousands of people and they are HEROS? savoirs??????...now all of a sudden they want to change History...we are no longer the Hindu kingdom???? new anthem, new emblem, new currency, new this and that, ....disrespect all that our forefathers died for with blood sweat and tears??????NEW NEPALL>>>....whats NEW NEPAL?????????????.....a broken Nepal....ethnically divided...REPUBLIC??????...what is it dude ?????? the king was the symbol of peace and unity.................and is still the symbol of peace and UNITY............ so bro rockend and all who read correct me if my observation is wrong