Cabals and Cartels

Author: Rajib Upadhya “Cabals and Cartels is a celebration of the Nepali spirit. But it is also a cautionary tale of the failures of Nepali leadership, both in terms of the political transition as well as economic development more generally. The book is a candid review of the past 30 years – of broken promises and of foregone opportunities. It analyses and attempts to explain how we remain hostage to a political class bedeviled by its prejudices. It looks at collusion and graft, layered across Nepali society, and how it continues to trap us in our past. But all is not gloom and doom. The book is also a call to action in that it explains how we could change for the better”