.with the state of commercial banking in Nepal.

Nepali Times interviewed participants at the Nepal Development Forum on the last day of the close-door aid meeting in Pokhara on Thursday. Selected soundbites:

In a country torn by a bloody insurgency, what is the message in sensing democratic aspirations in every dastardly act?

Whenever I hear the thud-thud of a Bullet, I seek out the sound and look wistfully at the beauty that is the Enfield.

Where? Kathmandu and Pokhara. When? March.

"What is courage?"

Dr Gabriel Campbell-Director general of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

Arun Kumar Chaudhary-President of the Nepal-India Chamber of Commerce and Industry