While corruption is endemic in Nepal and the bouts of anarchy give a rather grim picture of the country.
KATHMANDU: This is with reference to Shivam Vij’s article of November 15 “Nepal is the best”. The writer has written a very good piece on Nepal. He deserves kudos for bringing those issues to the fore, which are so often ignored when any discourse related to Nepal is taking place. Particularly the comparison of the dimensions of liberty in Nepal was impressive. There are various dimensions of the difference in the way South Asian states respond to the people’s aspiration to more openness and freedom.
What I would like to add in the same vein is this: while corruption is endemic in Nepal and the bouts of anarchy give a rather grim picture of the country, the extent of institutionalisation of corruption seems, to me, less than that in India and elsewhere in South Asia, and the anarchy factor is potentially more manageable than that in parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, in the longer term if capable politicians emerge.
Jiwan Kshetry
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2013.
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