Oli’s Harvard and Columbia show

Visibly humbled and honoured to speak at foreign universities, Oli leaves Nepal’s education in the shadows.

The pre-1990 generation would remember quite well what the government press considered newsworthy back then. At a time when the private electronic media was non-existent, the entire nation was forced to hear or watch the ritualistic recounting of every action of members of the royal family, starting, of course, with the head honcho himself. Thus, after invariably informing us about the king’s having felicitated or condoled, as the case may be, the president of a country we would have had no prior dealings or any since, we would be expected to be enthused by the news that another such country had supported the king’s still-born ‘zone of peace’ proposal.