By Devendra Gautam
The afternoon of February 11, 2023, at New Baneshwor Chowk, Kathmandu. A portly, middle-aged man barks on his cell phone amid a laid-back Saturday at the heart of Nepal’s quaint Capital that is home to important addresses like the Federal Parliament, formerly the Birendra International Convention Centre and the Constituent Assembly building and one of the centres of public scorn these days as a nerve centre of an increasingly unpopular and corruption-ridden polity: Jaise bhi ho Shalgram Shila chahiye.
The power centre erupts every now and then, thanks to a soaring unpopularity of powers that be, who have not been able to deliver much despite their decades-long, vice-lik