The Universe of Corruption and Anticorruption, and on the role of foreign aid in the country's social, economic and political development.
The book covers a very wide thematic, conceptual, and empirical canvas. The beauty of the book lies in the fact the author does not labor to prove a point. His reasonings flow almost effortlessly.
In the late 1990s, it was already becoming fashionable for the chattering classes to constantly chatter about Nepal degenerating into a "failed state". It is, therefore, strange that for the same section of the society, the notion of failed development would be incomprehensible even as a subject for intellectual conversation. It is another matter that the truly negative and utterly painful proceeding one was witness to at the time was the lacklustre bureaucratic routine carried out by the self serving establishment in the name of development. It also did not seem to matter that this intractable condition was accompanied, eventually, by a more painful and depressing tragedy. The losses and dislocations of precious life and property arising from the "People's War" launched by the Maoists kept mounting. And, militarization of the state proceeded hand in hand with it, further draining the meagre pubic resources that could be used for development purposes. The image of the pristine and peaceful, if poor, Nepal was replaced by the reality of a bloodletting, conflict-ridden state on the brink of collapse a characterization applied to some of our sister countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It was not apparent that the establishment with its changing actors and unchanging interests noticed any of this.
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Hindu (880)
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Ancient (1006)
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Biography (590)
Buddhist (541)
Cookery (160)
Emperor & Queen (492)
Islam (234)
Jainism (272)
Literary (873)
Mahatma Gandhi (380)
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