Nepal, the country at the feet of Himalaya, abolished monarchy only quite recently, in the year 2008. In Nepali, the state is currently called Saṅghīya Lokatāntrika Gaṇatantra Nepāla – Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. Strikingly, if you somehow went back twenty five centuries in a time machine, words like saṅghīya – now ‘federal’, back then […]