A brief history of the tradition of bandh (shut downs) in the country and how this tool employed by everyone from political parties to trade unions to even disgruntled families, along with the politicization of education, have robbed many youths of their potential. The youths, invariably, were always the ones mobilized to enforce them!
These extracts from Unleashing Nepal describe how, through education, the Rana Regime and the Shah autocrats furthered their ethnic and nationalistic agenda, enabling the social, political, and economic advancement of the hill so-called high caste Hindus (Khas Aryas) while oppressing -- and hindering the advancement of -- the others.
When you put politics in the driver's seat at institutions of higher education, education takes a backseat and, except for a small select group, everyone and the country loses out.
In the April 15, 1998 episode of the Kantipur FM The Music Jam radio show, I talk about the ridiculousness of Nepali politics comparing and contrasting it to the fun game of musical chairs.