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How out of touch and/or unfeeling and/or morally bankrupt would you have to be to make declaration such as that which PM Sher Bahadur Deuba made at the Columbia University World Leaders Forum on September 21, 2017?
Reproduction and translation of a Nepali article in Ratopati about a recent incident of gun-violence near Thamel, the tourist district in Kathmandu.
In the embedded video, Chinese pedestrians take drastic action at crosswalks (zebra crossings). What if pedestrians in Kathmandu did the same? How would Kathmandu drivers react, I wonder! I really do!
Holes on the streets of Kathmandu engulfing children, animals and vehicles, show there are gaping holes elsewhere too.
I have argued over and over again that it's not that we in Nepal can't do what we should do to develop, to make progress, but that we WON'T do them. We do them only when, for whatever reason, we feel that we absolutely HAVE to, for example.
Here's an example of that.
