Oli and the hubris of ‘great’ Nepal

No one should bother reading about Oli’s hallucinatory visions of Nepal’s past.

Despite his disastrous stints both as prime minister of the country and as leader of his party, were a poll to be held today to gauge the popularity of our leading politicians, KP Sharma Oli would top it. Not by a majority, no way, but by a plurality, given the fractured nature of politics. That is not because of what he is likely to achieve as a political leader but for all the outrageous things he manages to say all the time, and, increasingly nowadays, write as well.