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...bronze bells are ringing in the temples of Bhaktapur, about ten miles outside Kathmandu, and people are lighting small wax candles. The morning after King Gyanendra went on television late Monday night to announce that he was capitulating to popular protests by restoring Nepal's parliament - an announcement that put an end to a nineteen-day cycle of protests, curfews, tear gas, rubber bullets and several deaths - the people of this ancient town of temples and palaces, which was once the capital of a medieval kingdom of Nepal, are offering thanks to the gods...
...democracy movement so far may be on the verge of deteriorating. The strike imposed by the leaders of the popular protest - and enforced by the protestors, who throw stones and sticks at shops that dare to stay open - has meant that very little food or fuel has come into Kathmandu for nearly twenty days. The result: there is barely three days' supply of fuel left in the city, prices have shot up for food staples, and the hardship is ruining the lives of many in Nepal, already one of the world's poorest countries. Nepal's economy was expected...
...covered with blood and he is reeling about in a daze, too weak even to protest; yet blows from sticks and fists of the angry men keep raining down on him. This kind of scene, taking place on a main road in the neighborhood of Chabhail, a suburb of Kathmandu, has been all too common in the past two weeks in Nepal, where the police have often brutally attacked peaceful protestors with sticks and batons...
...parliament, which was dissolved in 2002 - thus meeting an important demand of the pro-democracy movement not met by his first offer to the political parties heading the movement, which was rejected. The King's offer was met with loud cheers and firecrackers from the streets in parts of Kathmandu, the capital, where protestors were gearing up for a gargantuan rally that was due to be held on Tuesday. However, it was still too early to say if the King's offer, even though it is the biggest concession he has so far made to the pro-democracy movement, will...
...Many people on the streets of Kathmandu agree with him. But not everyone. In the Kathmandu neighborhood of Kalanki, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting - at least three people were shot dead here by the police a few days ago - the locals say that the price of every vegetable except carrots, which are grown locally, has shot up by 500% or more: lemons, for instance, two rupees apiece a couple of weeks ago, now sell for fifteen rupees. "We are already facing a problem," says Umesh Gupta, a teacher. "We get by because we help each other...