2 Quotes by DB Gurung

These slums... epitomise the begging bowl - to uncover our abject poverty, because Kathmandu is home to almost all the foreign donor agencies. Now the state doesn't have to escort these see-no-evil donors to the remote countryside and observe the rags and tatters of the nation

Ours is a country where babies are born with crushing debts, where more than half the country are hungry and homeless, where the rays of modernisation never reach those far-flung remote villages, where there is not network of roads in mountain districts, no safe drinking water or a regular supply of already meagre electricity. We sell the electricity at low price and buy back at high price – what madness is this? Those buggers on the high government chairs should die of shame.