KATHMANDU, July 28 -- The migration sector is a zoom lens through which we can examine up close Nepal's socio-economic and political problems through recent history.
To a greater or lesser degree, all Nepalis suffer from the country's chronic malaise: discrimination, exclusion, poverty, indebtedness, joblessness, poor health care and education, all a result of an uncaring state.
But it is when citizens decide it is too much trouble to remain, or risk it all to leave their families and birthplace for a better shot at life, that the true impact of leadership failure and government neglect is thrown into sharp focus.
The government's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic since February 2020 is a case in point: it has cost lives at home, an...