India, March 5 -- The images were seared into the world's memory in just 72 hours, with both fear and awe at what was happening in Nepal in September 2025. The parliament building in Kathmandu was set on fire. The Prime Minister's residence was looted and set alight. Military helicopters were seen evacuating ministers from besieged homes.

All this ignited, in the immediate, by a ban on Instagram; though years of popular dissatisfaction with entrenched elites was the fuel. The protesters were mostly from 'Generation Z', a pop-culture name for those barely 30 or younger, born roughly between 1997 and 2012

And, at the end of it all, a 73-year-old former judge - who later remembered fondly her days studying peacefully beside the river Ganga...