NS,

Although your questioning to Maoist’s wartime misdeeds is well put and your assumption that Nepal would be prospering, had it not been for Maoist war, is fair enough (although I don’t believe), your laughing at a small news that Nepal is going to dramatically increase it’s investment in science and technology with biotechnology in particular focus was tasteless, to say the least.

As for Maoist misdeed, there is no need to halt everything else before it gets accounted as the peace process itself has put the issue at the end of it to be resolved. (Remember the agenda of a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (25 points “Comprehensive Peace agreement 2006”, article 5.2.5).

As for the old prospering paradise of Nepal before Maoist destroyed it, I have yet to find a single scholar endorsing that idea. All the scholars I have read and have a chance to talk to talks about a stagnant and corrupt Nepal where the power was centered at the hand of a handful of people/class/dynasty. A complete shaking up of the power structure to make it amenable to change was absolutely necessary- this is what I believe and also what almost every single scholar I have come across says.

So, NG, you are pretty alone out there if you believe your old Nepal was fine.

Nepe