Friends have long urged me to publish these worried and unhappy essays in book form. They said it was important that Nepalis, who either were too young to notice how things were falling apart, or too busy with their own pursuits to care, during those years, would be able to relive that era, see what went wrong after the Jana Andolan, and understand why Nepal is on the verge of becoming a failed state today.
Friends have long urged me to publish these worried and unhappy essays in book form. They said it was important that Nepalis, who either were too young to notice how things were falling apart, or too busy with their own pursuits to care, during those years, would be able to relive that era, see what went wrong after the Jana Andolan, and understand why Nepal is on the verge of becoming a failed state today.