Kathmandu: Former aide-de-camp (ADC) of Nepal’s popular monarch King Birendra and military secretary at Royal Palace of Nepal released yet another book capturing the main events of Nepal’s monarchy.
Vivek Kumar Shah’s Darbarbata Dekheko Nepal (“Nepal as I saw from Royal Palace”) was released in Kathmandu on Saturday. Shah was Military Secretary to the King of Nepal. His 2010 book Maile Dekheko Darbar, which was translated into English as Witnessing Palace Power and Politics, was among a best seller in contemporary times. Darbarbata Dekheko Nepal can also be read as a sequel or addendum to Maile Dekheko Darbar. “I received many messages calling on me to write about what I saw from the palace. In a way, this book is an address to those requests,” said Shah during launching of the book.
The book was jointly unveiled by Professor Dr Bipin Adhikari, former secretary of the government of Nepal Dr Dwarikanath Dhungel, Senior journalist Dhruba Hari Adhikari, former AIG of Nepal Police Dr Govinda Prasad Thapa, Vivek Shah (the author himself), Akashi Shah (his granddaughter) and Kritanya Bikram Shah (his grandson) at the ceremony attended by officials, intellectuals and civil society leaders in Kathmandu.
Maile Dekheko Durbar provides views about Royal Palace Massacre, King Gyanendra’s takeover of power, Maoist war, peace process, among others.
Darbarbata Dekheko Nepal chronicles, among other things, Shah’s experience of working with Nepal’s last monarch king Gyanendra, King Birendra and King Mahendra.
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