I can't believe what I am reading these days on this forum. It seems like people spend way too much time researching, dissecting and analyzing why Democracy failed in Nepal. How long did we have democracy? About a good 10 years or so probably. What do you expect? Radical changes in just a decade of a political system that, at that time was very new and foreign to the masses? Democracy didn't fail Nepal; Nepal failed Democracy, because it didn't even show up for the exam. It failed in understanding, interpreting, implementing, monitoring and controlling the various nuances of democracy. We are a highly agrarian society with a severe lacking in fundamental infrastructure and social institutions. We don't need to look at a historical context here. Don’t over analyze things, guys! What I am saying is that instead of talking about why and how things went wrong, we should brainstorm on "What NOW?" What is to be done? With or without corruption and everything else, for Nepal to develop, it has to become more industrialized. To sit here and say that Nepal would have made tremendous progress had there been political stability and minimum leakages is pipe dreaming. Do you think the problems occurred in Nepal due to a few bad apples? Because the ruling classes were just greedy? NO. Nepal was destined to stumble because it got democracy prematurely. Just like plants need to be in certain environmental constants, i.e. (water, sunlight, etc.) to live, Democracy needs to be cultivated in a "democracy friendly" environment. Nepal didn't have that, 14 years ago. It doesn't have that today. This is a very difficult question to answer. Does Nepal have to start from scratch and rebuild from the grassroots level, or do we just make tweaks and adjustments here and there and keep a lot of what we have currently? I leave that question to be debated by everyone on this forum. Where does Nepal go from here?