(Top left) A Nepalese Member of Parliament walks past pro-democracy activists shouting slogans while making his way to the country's Parliament in Kathmandu, April 28. Under scrutiny from the people whose weeks of protests swept them back to Parliament, Nepal's legislators returned to the ornate former theatre to begin a new and uncharted political era.

(Bottom left) Parliamentarian Bidhya Bhandari, of the Nepal Communist Party-United Marxist and Leninist greets a well-wisher during the opening session of Parliament in Kathmandu. Parliament reconvened for the first time in four years.

Complete coverage: The crisis in Nepal 

Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images and Devendra M Singh/AFP/Getty