Ideology is not dead in Nepal. It only changed its address

For fifteen years, Nepal’s political class taught us to distrust every grand vision. Now, we’re paying the price for the vacuum.

There is a strange kind of failure that happens not because a thing has been proven wrong, but because those who claimed to represent it never quite lived up to it. A doctrine does not need to be refuted to become useless in the eyes of the people; it only needs to be betrayed often enough, and for long enough, by those who invoked it. This is roughly what has happened to ideology in Nepal over the last decade and a half.