Not that more proof of India's growing prosperity is needed, but my favorite example of how far India has come, is measured by the experience I had the last time I flew into Delhi compared to what it was like to fly to Delhi 10 or 15 years ago. I was pleasantly suprised at how much more simple customs and immigration have become. With the dismantling of the licence raj, the liberalization of trade, and the advent of a consumerist economy, India has indeed come a long way in all aspects of life, certainly much further than we have gone in Nepal. That is not to say that India does not have its share of problems and it is still, at the end of the day, a very developing country. However, like the write of the article above pointed out, there are lots of lessons we in Nepal can learn from India. One important one, in my opinion, is that investment in education may take a long time to yield returns, but when it does, the dividends are very high. Just a thought.