Gopal Sharma has been Reuters correspondent in Nepal since 1995, covering the Maoist insurgency as well as the peace process which led to the fall of the monarchy. In the following story, slugged NEPAL-MONARCHY and headlined 'WITNESS-Royal flaws in focus at birth of Nepal's republic", Gopal recounts the royal family's decline.
A schoolboy shouts slogans against the education ministry who he says did not make textbooks available, in Kathmandu June 1, 2008. Nepal went back to work on Sunday as government offices ...