Harvesting our souls in a reset world

Nepal needs to set a new developmental narrative by giving weightage to continuity and change.

More than a reckoning, it’s a sort of collective realisation that the deadly coronavirus and deadlier counter-responses have damaged the world beyond complete repair. On the cusp of an unprecedented transition, it is necessary to reflect on what exactly will be the new normal in the changed times. Even before we had witnessed a bleak scenario, the world where we lived in was made a theatre of the absurd by a flawed decision-making process and inept decision-makers.