Nepals Failed Development Reflections on the Mission and the Maladies

Ten years ago, this author wrote "[Development] has failed not only because we did not achieve what we set out to do. It has failed also, and more importantly, because the idea and agents of development themselves may have been corrupted in the process." The current situation is the same; will the future be different? It can be if the people, especially the power holders do not allow the pathology of emphasizing "word" for the "world", the family for the country and the party for the universe to take root in the Republic of Nepal. At least, the youth or the new generation of political and social workers must be saved so that they can fight the decay, disillusion and possible regression with renewed vigour and new values. The future belongs to the youth; they only have to claim and own it.