I was recently reading an article about scenario planning in South Africa in the early 1990s shortly after the release of Nelson Mandela and the lifting of the ban on the ANC and the other black and left-wing parties. The joke going around at the time was that there were two ways to solve the problems of South Africa: the practical and the miraculous solutions. The practical solution was that we could all get down on our knees and pray for a band of angels to descend from heaven and make things better. The miraculous solution was that we would work together and find a way forward. On the whole, the South Africans implemented a miraculous solution. Can we pull the same thing off here in Nepal?

Neil Walton,
Bakhundole Height