A Decade Later: What Nepal Got Right—and What Still Ails It

There is something quietly startling about reading your old writing and finding it more accurate than expected. More than a decade ago, I wrote two articles arguing that Nepal’s transformation would not come from the top down, but from within—through a shift in collective consciousness. A new generation, I believed, would do what the old one would not. At the time, those arguments felt aspirational, perhaps even naïve.