The massacre of the Royal Family in Nepal is no laughing matter. But seriously, have you ever considered the strange goings on there? Le Carre couldn't have written to better thriller nor Wodehouse a greater farce.
Jaal list the really weird stuff there.
1. If Prince Dipendra was stoned out of his mind or what passed for it, what with the booze and the coke (the snorted variety) making for a heady cocktail, just how did he manage to shot straight. Was this an extremely talented marksman or just lucky?
2. While Prince Dipendra may be presumed (with reservation) to be the killer, didn't his parents ever realise they were living with a homicidal maniac. We're sure the Royal psychiatrist has some explaining to do considering the sort of verse he wrote:
Left bonds of affection, having duly understood
If needed soaked in blood, be ready to fight I will
To flames reduce, will lightning halt, spray with blood I will
On this uniform, the country's 'sindur', shake this earth I will
(From Soldier 3. Was Queen Aishwarya really such a Royal B$#*@ that she couldn't countenance Dipendra's marriage into another Rana clan? Doesn't really seem that way given the examples of her writing:
Do not look down upon this love, even in jest
the human mind is fragile and may fade away
enough! don't play with it
4. Okay, we also accept that Devyani was the femme fatale is this episode. Was the fact that she was related to an Indian Minister play a role in some quarters not wanting the marriage to come about? Given the King and Queen's tilt towards India, couldn't have been them.
5. Let's take the case of Prince Paras, that lucky guy. While his entire family was getting massacred, he showed the princely foresight to be somewhere safe. Given that he's been held responsible for running over innocent pedestrians in Nepal, do the Nepalese actually deserve him?
6. Now back to Dipendra and his alleged move of suicide. So he shot himself. But he shot himself in the back? What was he? A star contortionist? And he shot himself with the wrong hand. Was he ambidextrous? Mighty talented, this dear departed Princeling.
7. Referring to points 4 and 5, wasn't it mighty lucky too that King Gyanendra, the king-who-never-was-to-be, was also tripping outside Kathmandu when the bloodbath occurred. Lucky, ain't it? After all, how else could he have been conveniently present to take over the reins to the Kingdom. Hmmm..doesn't he lean Pakwards?
8. Has the investigation actually proved anything except for the fact that the Nepali investigators are probably clumsier than the watchdogs of our stock markets. They can't solve this crime, what can they solve?
9. If not Gyanendra, this royal event also marks a watershed for the country's Maoists. They can now cleverly go about taking over a country that no longer respects its monarch and never really respected its elected Governments. And, aren't they backed by the ISI? How strange!
Finally, why were rumours flying around Nepal that India had plotted the massacre. We know that Indian diplomacy suck, but even the Ministry of External Affairs would have realised that a friendly King was preferable over an unfriendly one.



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