Article: The job of king never an easy one.(Editorial)

In the distant Himalayas, two kingdoms are playing out vastly different scripts involving their kings. Among other things, Bhutan and Nepal are showing that in the modern world, often the only way to remain king may be to give up formal power.

Tiny Bhutan, a protectorate of India and the only country to compile a gross national happiness index, held the first parliamentary elections in its history last week. It was a landslide, with 44 of 47 seats going to the Peace and Prosperity Party, whose platform seemed indistinguishable from that of the People's Democratic Party. The size of the landslide left analysts wondering if the losers could even serve as an effective ...

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