I was pained to notice that Kunda Dixit missed the most important aspect of the new curriculum at the School for Scoundrels, affiliated to the Charlatan Heston University in the USA (Under My Hat, #175). Which is:

Intro to Nepali Politics
Semester: Fall and Spring
Level: Junior

This course acquaints students with contemporary Nepal politics, with special reference to power-seeking and seizing, party-splitting, organising bandhs and chakka jams, holding clandestine meetings and going on foreign junkets. In an exchange program with the TU professors and students, prospective politicians enrolled in this course will learn how to bunk classes and burn down buildings. Drawing heavily from the experience of the 1990s, this course intends to teach students to appreciate blame-game-ism, despotism and Maoism as art forms.

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