Dancing, dancing in the streets...

... more likely danse macabre! Same old faces, same bamboo lathis and shoving people like cattle onto trucks. Today we saw strange scene: at least 50 "prisoners" being carted away standing-up in the truck, shouting waving red falgs, and heavy downpour... with hailstones! The fatalistic nepalis learnt weeks time ago not to come closer than 100 m around Ratna Park and few nearby campuses after 2 in the afternoon. The taxi drivers take it into stride as just another closed road. It's hard to make revolution in a country which is so fatalistic... unexcitable! And the media - the hammering the poor King gets, and no ONE speaks for him, much less against this hectoring! Like ALL Nepalis are for Republic, it's done thing, cooked goose. I might know the proverbial SILENT MAJORITY, or at least few of it's prominet, articulate members, out here, 10 miles from Ratna-madness: nobody thinks ANY good will come from this obstinate, day-after-day demonstrations!
And the media, interviewing only the same old, tainted leaders... Is there really no one else, who could speak for the Palace? Seems the untiring Kamal Thapa, who filled with great panache this role - is being kept very BUSY (in his function as Minster of Interior)by the endless afternoon street battles!
One way or the other, by street tactics, bad press and endless gyrations, the Palace is being worn down... to the great pity for the future of Nepal. So the gyrations are getting more RPMs as the Ali Baba GP and his 40 robbers smell the blood and the see the plum minister-posts, travel abroad and jobs for relatives...