Kathmandu, June 5 -- We are so lucky to have a govt that gives it to us straight. The Primeval Ministernever minces words, and FinMin Poodle does not beat around the bush to convey to us the bad news that the country is going belly-up, which is why we have to sell the Chure to India to reduce the trade deficit. We are lucky he did not mislead us by sugar-coating the message that we can only balance the budget by hook or by crook, mainly by crook.

Let's see, what else can we do to reduce the trade gap? Flattening the Chure would enlarge the Tarai, and after we are done with that, we can sell the Mahabharat and turn the range into Nepal's Central Plains for plotting. And if we still have a balance of payments deficit, then we can start qua...