Hey Ashu - I read your blog entry and left you a note. Great piece of humor and satire there - unfortunately a pretty accurate reflection of the state of affairs in Nepal. I hope things will change for the better. One other point, which you perhaps touched on a little bit, is the skepticism and sometimes utter disdain that Nepal's rulers - whoever they have been - have had for the business community in Nepal. The reasons are understandable - and you talk about them in your peace - but I think a sea change in thinking is required to create a truly business friendly government of the type that our neighbors India and China have come to have over the years. I know of a friend involved in software who moved his business from Kathmandu to Delhi because the overhead of doing business in Nepal was so much higher as a result of bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape, lack of reliable infrastructure, and of course the political climate which hopefully will change for the better. So much so that the cost of slightly cheaper Nepali labor was offset by these incidental overheads and the inability to attract clients because of concerns around stability in Nepal. Plus as a person of Indian origin who grew up in Nepal, he found much more dignity in India than he did in Nepal where he was always viewed suspiciously by a lot of people for no other reason than the fact he was of Indian heritage (though a Nepali by birth and citizenship) I guess people reading this can evangelize and start preaching on how we need to be responsible towards our country etc and not seek to find everything in place but the example I gave is a real life scenario of what sometimes really happens on the ground no matter how lofty our ideals towards our country and it's economy are.