Barabara Adams arrived in Nepal in 1961. She has somehow been both a total participator in, and a detatched observer of, the Nepali cultural, political and developmental scene. Those who missed her early columns in the “Independentâ€, have long been urging her to publish her works in a lasting format: hence this book. Barbara’s growing disillusion with the section on “Politics.†Her anguish over the ecological, architectural, and cultural deterioration ...
Barbara Adams has lived in Nepal for 45 years. She is staunch nationalist, and as a result, a severe and passionate critic. This book contains her observations on failings of what came to be called “democracy†in Nepal, in Nepal, and her suggestions of what should be done to satisfy and engage the ever more discouraged youth. She observed the disintegration of the golden grail of multiparty democracy, and the increasing corruption of its proponents. She ...