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2025 Year-End Letter to Nepal
The conditions that produced that uprising are still entirely intact: stagnant growth, weak institutions, and a political order that rewards power over performance
I left Nepal in 1990 for Canada at a moment of great political promise. The Panchayat system had just fallen, and a multiparty interim government was in place. Like many of my generation, I left torn between two impulses—eager to study, yet worried that I might be missing Nepal’s long-promised golden years of prosperity. Those golden years never came.
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