The recent turmoil in Nepali cities is likely to have a lasting impact on politics and society. It also impacts the lives of Nepalese migrants and the work of foreign nationals involved in development assistance. The situation remains volatile, and no one knows yet what the consequences will be. The dust must settle first.
Where there is smoke, there is fire. The urban centres were full of smoke, the first two days, emanating from burning rubble and properties earmarked as contaminated because they were associated, by the more aggressive protesters, with the powerful and the rich, who, again in the eyes of the beholders, got to be so rich because of unlawful embezzlement and immoral self-enrichment.
