Ilā Rajpuri

The "East" has not historically appreciated free speech. The value system of Southasia, including Nepal, does not support it. Any form of freedom that people have practiced in this region has been within the bounds that the state deemed free. Thousands of years ago, Buddha was met with physical violence when he went against the conventional wisdom of his time. If that is too far in the past, the assumed liberal arguments undertaken by Adi Shankara never extended to the royal policies. It is not...