Nepal, Jan. 20 -- Be it for the municipal executive, the provincial legislature or the federal parliament, candidates hitting the campaign trail along the mid-hills of Nepal had to woo the voters during the last elections on an unconventional agenda: Curbing the monkey menace. Strong commitments were made, but after the elections, no government has done anything tangible to address this problem. What can exacerbate this problem even more and allow the elected office bearers to shy away from responsibility is the ambiguity that has come attached to federalism, especially about the purview of the federal, provincial and local governments over a range of subjects, including monkeys! As a matter of fact, there is also an old Canadian joke on ...