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Nepal Crises - Fuel and Medicine: What Lesson Does it Teach Bhutan?

I was in Nepal yesterday to attend a conference on climate change and energy security and i feel that it would not have been organized at a better time. The conference organizers put me in one of the finest hotels in Kathmandu and there was a car and a driver to take me to the hotel from the airport. As soon as i got in the car, i greeted the driver with Namaste Dai! This two words of greetings made him feel comfortable to share on what's happening these days in Nepal and what's happening to him at personal level. He began by saying "khoi sir..." (means a sense of un-happiness) and said that, he lost his ten year old son during the devastating earthquake which hit Nepal and his house was totally destroyed. He said, government didn't approve his proposal to build a house and now they are living in a small makeshift home. Then he went on to saying, how badly Nepal has been hit by this so called un-official blockade. Nepal has been severely hit by the  blockade ...