India, Sept. 17 -- Nepal's digitally savvy youth have upended the nation's political order. Yet, amid fractured leadership and swirling conspiracy theories, the question lingers - will this revolution truly reshape Nepal, or will it lead to more chaos?

"Ke gar diye ko chhora!" (what have you done, son!) rebuked a dying King Birendra when Prince Dipendra perpetrated the Palace massacre, literally wiping out the Shah dynasty by a fusillade of bullets from his M16 rifle on 1 June 2001.

A quarter of a century later a similar question could be asked of a digitally connected youth collective between ages 13 and 30 calling itself Gen Z that eliminated key political and physical infrastructure in Kathmandu, causing an emotional and psychologica...