Nepal, Sept. 30 -- What happened in Nepal on September 8 and 9 is no doubt extraordinary. Very few civil unrest in the world have caused the fall of an elected government so rapidly. It has amazed everybody, including the organisers of the so-called Gen Z movement whose banner has been used but who have little influence overall.

As the political parties are slowly recovering from the terrible shock and terror of those fateful days-and as some of them, especially the wiser and younger politicians, seem to take stock and realise their past mistakes and shortfalls-it is high time for intellectuals to independently separate the wheat from the chaff and identify the root causes of the massive number of death and destruction.

Simply blaming "...