Sunday, June 18, 2006

Lack of breast-feeding caused Nepal royal family's downfall? (India News)

Kathmandu - A Nepali writer has come up with a different cause for the downfall of Nepal’s King Gyanendra and the Shah dynasty that ruled the kingdom for over 200 years - the lack of breast-feeding by the Shah queens.

Peter J. Karthak, author and columnist, attributes the disintegration of Nepal’s royals and their growing unpopularity to the royal babies’ never knowing ‘the comfy zones of their mothers’ bucket-seat laps and pillow-like soft bosoms’.

Karthak, who was educated in North Point school in Darjeeling, India, where the current king and his two brothers also studied around the same time, wrote in his column in the Kathmandu Post daily Sunday that the lack of breast-feeding, symbolising the meagre role mothers played in royal childrens’ lives, caused the ‘male brats’ to grow up as ‘drunkies (sic), junkies, spoilers, wastrels and mean murderers’.



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