Kathmandu, February 18- The King Gyanendra in his address to the nation today said Nepal is a kaleidoscope of diverse people - be they indigenous, dalits or those living in villages, cities, or the terai, hills or the mountainous regions, eKantipur.com reports. He made this remark in his what was apparently an unsolicited message on the occasion of the “Falgun 7 Democracy Day”. The King no longer holds any official authority of the head of the state kind like in the past years, but is more like a royal citizen.

Throughout the history of all powerful absolute monarchial rule of the Shah dynasty, there has been no explicit mention about ‘Dalits’, the most oppressed people of Nepal in any royal address to the nation. Every time, there was a royal address, it was all rosy royal, as if the people were all well as was the King, while the truth was no where near the address.

[The nepaldalitinfo brief].