Nepali Times

Q: How do you take a country ideally suited for tourism, and quickly wreck it beyond repair?
A: Just do what Nepal has done to its travel industry.

Bee to the blossom,
Moth to the flame;
Each to his passion:
Whats in a name?        -Helen Hunt Jackson

At Davos this week, everyone spoke of the digital divide. What about the school divide, the hospital divide, the housing divide, the wealth divide?

There are stark choices before Nepal: social unity and self-help versus cynicism about bad government and a culture of entitlement.