King's Speech

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 A temperate monsoon evening, with 'load shedding holiday' must have brought some delights to much of Kathmanduities. An unrelated but yet anticipated event was the interview with our former King that was to be broadcasted at nine. Having myself watched the sixty minutes interview, i wondered what could a layman audience, like me, with extremely liberal political views make out of the royal interview?

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The impression of a King, although dethroned, was expected to be a heroic figure, with clarity and command of speech, a clinging royal aura and to make a point, without being unduly controversial. It did not turn out completely as per the expectations, probably some part due to poor versed nepali spoken language of our former King. The ambiguity of answers by the King and the incompetence on the interviewer's part to extract the much awaited, occult scoops made the program, but a dull one. Analysts would definitely make a lot of verdicts and extrapolations about the dialogue, but personally for me, it probably was a dull and anticlimatic phenomenon.Sometimes , i wonder if our country are at scarce of good speaking men who have the capacity to spellbound the listener. Laymen, like us remained unchanted and  unthrilled!!!