Posted by: JPEG May 30, 2009
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Nepali beauty dancing at the Nepal’s first Republic Day.
Nepal's first Republic Day was celebrated on Friday throughout the nation with various programs, exactly one year after the Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a republic on May 29, 2008 ending the 240-year old unpopular monarchy. In his last act before leaving his palace last year, Nepal's former king, Gyanendra, tried something he never attempted during his disastrous experiment with autocratic rule. He decided to call a press conference - and for dismayed royalists the ensuing scene encapsulated the fall of an ancient institution that had collapsed from within. Excited journalists climbed on the palace furniture. They posed for pictures
in the chair where Gyanendra would sit, flanked by two stuffed tigers. When the ex-king arrived they heckled him with the rudest 
words in the Nepali language. Five years after sacking his first prime minister, three years after he used the army to seize absolute power, he had to go
.
The king had seized power to defeat a powerful Maoist insurgency that was fueled by the poverty and injustice of village life. But while the royal army floundered against the rebels in the hills, republican protests swelled on the streets of the capital. A peace process led to elections earlier that year.
The king - seen as a living god, and worshiped as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu
???? - became just another commoner. The chief priest at the temple still recognizes the king and still goes to him to make offerings, although he has been told that he must stop. Gyanendra was the nation's religious leader, as well as its would-be ruler. It was his duty to preside at the rituals which keep Nepal in harmony with its gods. One of those gods is Chanira Bajracharya,
??? the 13-year-old living goddess of Patan who is worshiped as an incarnation of the goddess Telaju
. Every year the king would come and make an offering of rice and coins at her feet.
Now, the 240-year-old monarchy is left behind Nepal is the newest republic in the world. That's the true_beauty_of_Nepal. And when there is equality and peace, progress will follow. Now that is absolutely true_beauty_of_Nepal.
Nepal's first Republic Day was celebrated on Friday throughout the nation with various programs, exactly one year after the Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a republic on May 29, 2008 ending the 240-year old unpopular monarchy. In his last act before leaving his palace last year, Nepal's former king, Gyanendra, tried something he never attempted during his disastrous experiment with autocratic rule. He decided to call a press conference - and for dismayed royalists the ensuing scene encapsulated the fall of an ancient institution that had collapsed from within. Excited journalists climbed on the palace furniture. They posed for pictures
in the chair where Gyanendra would sit, flanked by two stuffed tigers. When the ex-king arrived they heckled him with the rudest words in the Nepali language. Five years after sacking his first prime minister, three years after he used the army to seize absolute power, he had to go.The king had seized power to defeat a powerful Maoist insurgency that was fueled by the poverty and injustice of village life. But while the royal army floundered against the rebels in the hills, republican protests swelled on the streets of the capital. A peace process led to elections earlier that year.
The king - seen as a living god, and worshiped as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu
???? - became just another commoner. The chief priest at the temple still recognizes the king and still goes to him to make offerings, although he has been told that he must stop. Gyanendra was the nation's religious leader, as well as its would-be ruler. It was his duty to preside at the rituals which keep Nepal in harmony with its gods. One of those gods is Chanira Bajracharya, ??? the 13-year-old living goddess of Patan who is worshiped as an incarnation of the goddess Telaju. Every year the king would come and make an offering of rice and coins at her feet. Now, the 240-year-old monarchy is left behind Nepal is the newest republic in the world. That's the true_beauty_of_Nepal. And when there is equality and peace, progress will follow. Now that is absolutely true_beauty_of_Nepal.
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