Truth hurts and I realize that. Most importantly, we knew all these things and didn’t need one Andrew Hyde to tell us that we are in an abyss - all over again. And no I am not angry at you, Mr. Hyde.

The writer is right, and right about lot of things.

For pointing our attention to certain areas of our negligence, I thank the writer and hope the government stooges read it back home to rectify these follies, one step at a time, if not more.

For the other parts of the story, here is my answer –

Yes, we may not be so commercialized and hence do not engage in fake conversation like yelling "hey how you doing! is everything alright?" after a long day at a gas station, for example, for money (when what you actually feel like saying is “I am tired, take the merchandise, pay, and go f**k yourself), our friends and family have still managed to hold their heads high and salvage a sliver of decency in Nepal.

They still give people like Mr. Hyde water, food, shelter and a few free lunches if need be.

Try that here in some homes in the US and you will have been probably shot at by a shot-gun, set the police after you, or mistake you for a mugger. Thank you for your hospitality!

Looking at the extent of adversity our folks faced, I thank guys back home that these Westerners can freely loiter around our countryside with impunity and still expect to come back to their home countries to crib about the experience without the fear of being killed unlike in Afghanistan or Somalia.

If this guy had undergone so much of adversity as some of our most under-privileged citizens, this writer would probably weigh his options to sell his soul to the devil by now.

Keep up the good work ordinary citizens, back home! You are doing an awesome job even if a few passers-by rave and rant about how things are. Yes I know it could be way better than that, though.

But to the maobadis and khaobadis, who only want to amass personal wealth and engage in corruption, that is wrong and rise above the greed to serve your nation well.

And yes, articles like these need to come out, so that they open people’s mind towards what is happening and what needs to be done.

Thank you Mr. Hyde once again for highlighting our flaws and am sure your attempt to bare the basics of how the tourism-cogs-of-wheel work in Nepal will have been noticed at some level.