Posted by: Captain Haddock April 14, 2008
History repeats itself in Nepal
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Deshbhakatanepali

Re: the Hrideyendra option, there is an idiom in Nepali "achi gare pachi dhoka dekhnu". What you write is what GPK proposed months ago. Most royalists and monarchists, including those on Sajha, viewed the proposal as a conspiracy by a scheming politician to amass even more power. Such was their delusion about the staying power of the monarchy.

Since this election shattered many delusions, including those of the Congress and the UML, I guess GPK , who I suspect might be drowning himself in scotch right now, can take heart in this: he may have been wrong about the Maoists, but he came pretty darn close to being right on the Monarchy.
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