Rainbow over Nepal

We have become a society more accommodating of differences than could be imagined earlier.

Seeing how our politics has failed us time and again, it is easy to understand why people get carried away and look for saviours in anyone with an attractive enough message, and the recent by-elections have proved the point again. What I fail to get though is why there remains a fair number of those who believe the only way forward is to go backwards. Perhaps it is a sign of a patent unwillingness to engage with the facts, for I cannot but point out once again that since 2006 and the emasculation of the monarchy, Nepal has become a society much more accommodating of all kinds of differences than could ever be imagined earlier.