New wave, old ways

Nepalis want delivery, and they do not really care if that comes from Balendra Shah or Gyanendra Shah.

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the hands of a Serb nationalist in 1914, triggering the First World War, has been called ‘the shot heard round the world’. By almost the same token, one can say that in the past fortnight the global digital sphere experienced what might be called ‘the shock felt round the world’. That was when a Zimbabwean comedian decided to explain the meaning of the chant that kicks off the 1994 film, The Lion King .