What intrigues me about the revolution in Nepal being led by angry, young people is how they have turned #nepokidz into a rallying cry. The habit of breeding nepo-babies that nearly all political leaders in this sub-continent embrace makes me personally very angry. So, I have sympathy for all jobless, despairing young people without being an advocate of anarchy. Nepal’s ‘Gen-Z’ seems to have been enraged about nepotism for a long while and have expressed these feelings on social media.

Unsurprisingly, it was the ban on social media that acted as a trigger for the anarchy we saw play out in the streets of Kathmandu and spread slowly into rural districts. A young man from Nepal who works in Mumbai told me that he had an aunt who was a rural politician and she had been advised to go into hiding when they saw how the uncontrollable violence in Kathmandu forced the prime minister to resign.

Since monarchy was abolished in Nepal in 2008, there have been four elections and 14 prime ministers. Most prime ministers came from communist or Leftist political parties. They should have known better than to immediately start behaving like kings in a country that had got tired of kings. But, just as we in........

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