The news out of Nepal is that the tiny Himalayan nation’s prime minister, PK Sharma Oli, has been forced to resign after two days of widespread protests by Gen-Z youth, which saw more than a score dead and hundreds injured. Oil’s resignation and the public thrashing of some of his cabinet colleagues seem eerily similar to events that unfolded in Dhaka a year back.

At its core, the unrest was a raw expression of deep-seated frustration: the tiny nation has the lowest per capita income in South Asia and a staggering unemployment rate of nearly 13%. Add to that a deep-rooted corruption in governance and an economy which depends on remittances from youth forced to migrate abroad in search of jobs, and you have a heady mix of grievances........

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