Kathmandu, Jan. 16 -- It has come to the notice of yours truly asinine that a lot of readers out there these days are muttering behind your masks about how Nepal is going to hell in a handbasket. What's so bad about going to hell? It can't be worse than it already is here. I am also not sure if a handbasket is the best way to get to hell.

Looking around the world, and following twitter these days, it actually seems that we in Nepal are a bit half-hearted in trying to wreck this country. The question is: are we doing enough to take this glorious nation of ours from monarchy to anarchy and back?

Why aren't we also wearing yak horns, storming Parliament, and purloining the lectern, as they do in advanced democracies? Why can't our staunch ...