 (Photo and Story Courtesy of David Bloomer) It has been just over one year since I first arrived in Nepal to take up the task of working as a management advisor for a small, indigenous Nepali NGO. Before embarking on my trip, I was encouraged thorough talks with Nepali experts, and recent studies that the Maoist insurgency that had racked the country for eight years was in its dying days and was confined to some of the more remote areas of the far western reaches of the Kingdom. The realities on the ground, however, were something quite different almost immediately I learned that Maoist (and often agitating political parties, as well) called strikes, demonstrations and blockades effected life throughout the country, albeit, on a limited scale in the Kathmandu Valley, and were an almost daily occurrence.
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