Kathmandu, Jan. 30 -- All this knee-jerk criticism of Primetime Minister K P Oli for offering prayers at Pashupati misses the whole point about his interpretation of dialectic materialism, the doctrine with which Marx (Karl, not Groucho) postulates a steady revolutionary progression from the primary stage of socialism, through the dictatorship of the proletariat, then on to full-blown Communism, and finally breaking the cycle of birth and rebirth through the attainment of Nirvana.

Latin American lefties must be red with jealousy that comrades in Nepal have given 'Liberation Theology' an entirely new meaning by cleverly combining Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Hoxhaism and Hinduism. In fact, unbeknownst to most of us, it seems the entire Ce...