Kathmandu Valley´s booming economy has attracted plains labour by the tens of thousand.
Kathmandu residents do not need reminding that there is an open border between India and Nepal.
In Nepal, the problem with numbers is not unique to counting emigrants. Newspaper columnists, activists and researchers routinely manipulate or exaggerate figures in order to demonstrate the supposed seriousness of
"The fact that Nepalis are by nature straightforward has been proved false."
On the night of 13 January 1996, 48-year-old executive Satya Prakash Sharma, his 42-year-old wife Shobhana,
Studies in Nepali History and Society
Vol 1 No 1
Edited by Pratyoush Onta, Mary des Chene et al
Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, June 1996