Figure this one out: In ten years 12,000 Nepali lives were lost in the battlefor people’s power. Yet in nineteen days of protests, the king capitulatedafter barely 16 lives were lost. People in Kathmandu say this is because acritical mass has been attained, and people realise that change doesn’t happenbecause you put fancy words into the constitution. It happens because the peoplespontaneously will it through protests. On the first day of protests, April 6,Nepal’s two top comedians Madan Krishna Shresta and Hari Dhansa Acharya wenton air to say they were going to raise funds to treat the injured. Between themthey deposited Rs 1,00,000/- The very next day the account had become Rs 3,00,000/-.On day nineteen it stood at Rs 1.4 crore. And this was only in one fund, at theModel Hospital Kathmandu.