Kathmandu, May 21 -- While at home with nothing to do, many of you have been worrying obsessively about the state of the country. Don't. We are in the very capable hands of the Great Helmsperson who reminds us constantly that a revolution is not a tea party, the nation is taking a great leap forward to let a hundred flowers bloom because a 1,000 mile journey begins with the first step, and that political power comes out of the barrel of whiskey.

Nowhere else in the world would you have such a cumulative wealth of experience among national leaders. The PM has just become PM for the third time. And there are five ex-PM MPs all lining up to replace him, and one of them has been PM five times already. Imagine their total IQ if we added up al...