Nepal, May 26 -- It's hardly a surprising figure. If anything, the number sounds like a gross underestimate. According to a new Nepal Police report, there were 3,963 protest-related events in the country in the past 10 months. The form of protests runs the whole gamut: 12 general strikes, 12 transport blockades, 816 lockouts, 782 sit-ins, 134 hunger strikes, 118 road obstructions, and 2,089 protest rallies. Really, most Nepalis are used to witnessing protests of all kinds, nearly every single day, nearly everywhere they go. Teachers, civil servants, lawyers, journalists, victims of Maoist insurgency and cooperative frauds, taxi drivers, businesspersons-they all feel the need to band together and assert themselves to get the relevant gover...