Nepal, March 20 -- Sometimes, we need to take a step back to realise what a tectonic movement Nepali politics witnessed this month.

In a region and world ruled by elected authoritarians, Nepalis went to the ballot box freely to express a collective will for change.

These faces in this group photo of the RSP's 180 freshly-minted MPs at the ballroom of the Royal Tulip Hotel on Wednesday is symbolic of what Nepal has come through.

The ship of state righted itself after the September Storm, installing an interim government that held an election within six months in which voters banished obsolete politicians and their parties into oblivion.

Nepalis, fed up with the inept kakistocracy of the past three decades, took the country into a post...