Nepal, May 3 -- This country is going to the dogs and, if anyone needed any convincing, then a brief glance at the news over the past year ought to do it. Our news feed seems to be filled with a never-ending assortment of scams. Over the past week it has been all about land - from the Lalita Niwas land scam to the blatant appropriation of public space at Khula Manch.

If we jog our memory a little further back, it was the encroachment of Fewa Lake and the dubious goings on vis-a-vis the land of Tribhuvan University that was in the news. The common denominator in all of this is the fact that these scams and land appropriation schemes are perpetrated by the 'politico-business-bureaucratic' nexus that seems to be just about everywhere. Gover...