Foreign hands

Adam Smith, an 18th Century Scottish philosopher and economist, propounded a theory of “invisible hands” in economics. As politics dominate economics in Nepal, what we have here is the theory of foreign hands. Unlike Smith’s invisible hands, foreign hands operate here both ways - visible as well as invisible.

Take any contentious issue in Nepal and you end up with an explanation of foreign hands. Let it be real or apparent, covert or overt, one will find the workings of the foreign hands.