NDTV Explains Nepal’s ‘Return Of The King’ Movement. A Hindu Monarchy Again?

New Delhi: Nearly seventeen years ago – on May 28, 2008, to be exact – Nepal abolished a 239-year-old Hindu monarchy, with Gyanendra Shah as king, and brought the curtain down on a decade-long civil war that had killed over 16,000 people. The Hindu-majority nation was reborn as a federal, secular republic. On Sunday, thousands … Read more