Agnikunda (अग्निकुण्ड)

Agnikunda was the book I aspired to read ever since it came into market. This desire was due to my curiosity to know what caused the royal massacre in 2001, and what were its backgrounds, and how it was done. The reason for my curiosity was that at that time I was 15 years in age and had new aspirations towards political system and history, in such case that event was like a shock and query to me. Yesterday I started to read it, I woke up upto 2:30 AM early morning while reading it. Today I completed the reading.
My curiosity have somehow been addressed, but I am still not convinced what caused the Massacre to happen and whose plan and action was that masacre. Like other general people, I see the hand of the then Prince Gyanendra and his son Paras. Characters like Dr. Rajiv Shahi I think worked it out for Gyanendra and were not the real planner or benifitter of it. The book almost concluded that it was a conspiracy that just misutilised the marriage-crisis of Crown Prince Dipendra and blamed Dipendra for commiting the massacre for showing his anger and unsatisfaction towards the decision made by the royal family about his marriage.
It says through characters - the old woman (बृद्धा) and Sharada didi, that the shooting was done by 3 men who were wearing the mask of Dipendra's face and they appeared to keep on shooting even the real Dipendra fell in the small pond in the garden. This has tried to prove that Dipendra was innocent and the master planner was Gyanendra, who immediately started to present himself as the unprecedented King of Nepal.
Beside the massacre itself, the book has tried to tell the inner truth about sexual weakness of the Royalities. Many cases of illegal and undefined marital realtionships of the Kings depict the true picture of their character. Hindu believed Kings to be incarnation of Lord Bishnu, but this book might have instincted some of the believers that they are as and sometimes even more sexually abusive and weak. They were fed by the tax raised from the people's labor, but didn't even hesitated to sexually abuse a child of a commoner who is like a daughter in age to them.
-eShan