Every country in our neighborhood has gone thoiugh gestation period, China was about to collapse, Tienmien square opened its leaders eye.
India was on its verge of collapse, they realised their mistakes in early 1990. Bangladesh was same, Leaders were busy in infhting, Pakistan is still confused. You know situation in Afganistan.

We remained Dormant during Rana rule, sort of hybernation.  after 2007, lack of trust and unnecessary ambition between king and Leaders and among leaders pushed us towards state of lazyness. 

Now is our gestation period, It will take time but we will emerge stronger out of it.

Yes it is important to keep our house in order but in this global village era one can not keep its house in order if it is unaware of situation in its surrounding, that is why we need to know whats going on in India/China/Pakistan/Bangladesh etc. Because situation in these countries affect us, our economy.

I am not afraid of Bhutan's Progress. I am not jealous. In fact it is good if Bhutan is progressing. But will not agree with any situation whereby India's cancelling its subsidy producing different political outcome.That is like political hostage taking.

300 billion trade deficit is no encouraging but most of it is due to developmental acvtities. 

There are many ways we can rduce this defecit, for example producing hydropower first fro internal use. and providing it to cheap so that cooking in electricity will be cheaper than gas/fire wood. 

This will help us reduce trade deficiet due to cooking gas
Also electric car, In western world main problem of electric car is a) its speed  and recharging ability

elctric car with lower speed wont be a problem in Nepal, average driving speed is 60 km/hr, and and recharging battery will also be a major problem, because we drive less km per day, so once a day charge at home will be enough

If we manage to produce enough electricity, (this is possible by simply managing present resources abd private sector) then electric cars will reduce petrol import which will finally reduce our deficit.


At present govt is subsidising gas/diesel ( that means giving money to india)
After producing elctricity, is it is expensive, govt should subsidise it. ( this means money will stay in nepal)
remember, if money stays at home you are consider rich

second, developing hydropoer for export to India and china with the help of aid/loan and internal resources
Here, we have to be craefull, otherwise India china will get a free ride.

you told in one of you posting everything is give and take, 

As I previously told 50/50 is the best, if it is not possible 55%/45% is not that bad either, but lessor than that is like getting screwd up.

Past ruler made mistakes, thats why India is taking us easy, taking us granted, If we are not clever enough, if we dont raise our voice present leaders most probbably will do tha same. future generation will scold us. We must not handover a a defunct nepal to future generation,we dont have right to do that.

Does that mean we have to have enemty against India or China ? No, they are our neighbors, it is always good idea to have good relation with neighbors, we just need to check their bad behavior towards us, that all. This we can do standing on our ground and just letting them know that nepal is not a piece of cake, its is a country to recon with.

India needs much more energy than it can get from Bhutan. In Science magazin I read in 1988 Indai had a plan to produce 10,000MW of nuclear power by 2000 but was able to produce only 500 MW.

Lately there is big talk about pollution in Beijing because of coal power plants and home use of coal.Electricity produced from Coal, diesel, thermal power and to some extent nuclear power is almost 15-10% more expensive than hydropwer. On top of that devaluation of indian currency is making disel, power plant very expensive. They are also very pollution in Nature

For large scale nuclear power plant, India do not have technologhy to handle it. Nuclear fuel is very costly,USA and Russia want to sell those expensive material to India with many string attcahed. management of spent fuel is very expensive. and dangerous

So India has no alternative, if it wants to fullfill its drams of becoming one of the worlds power, without cheap energy it is not possible. 

We just need to be patient and consistent in our negotiating skill. When india realises it is paying almost 20% more premium than they can get from Nepal they will come to us, that day is not far actually.