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Last week’s youth-led toppling of the elected government in Nepal completes the chain of political displacements around India. In the last three years following the Taliban’s capture of power in Afghanistan, the Aung San-headed government in Myanmar was pushed out by the Army. The wave of disappointment and despair with the status quo then widened first to the Maldives and soon thereafter to Sri Lanka. In the summer of 2024, student factions in Bangladesh came together to ease out the democratically elected two-term Premier Sheikh Hasina. The previous year, Pakistan’s government under cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was deposed in a well-orchestrated military coup.
Only in Bhutan did public dissatisfaction and dissent, so visible in other neighbouring countries, not come to the fore. The Wangchuk monarchy continues to rule for decades in what it tactfully calls the Land of Happiness.
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