Kathmandu, April 6 -- Once again, our 'greatest Commie party on Earth' is making impossible promises. It would be easier to promise to send a Nepali person to Mars by the year 3000 than to set targets like achieving more than 10 percent economic growth and raising our per capita income to $1,600 in the next five years.

When Oli Ba was our Prime Monster the first time around, he promised us that we would all have cooking gas lines installed in our homes so we could forget about gas cylinders. This time, Oli Ba has promised us rails and ships from China and India, and that we will be making money when the rails connect Kerung to Kolkata. Let us do the math. If Melamchi has taken us more than 20 years and it is still not ready, then expect th...