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Once again heading Far West

I scaled Kathmandu to Janakpur - Hetauda - Chitwan - Bhairahawa - Nepalgunj - Dhangadi - Surkhet on road.. and  the conversation with a local shopkeeper goes as follows What? 'Nepal has a huge potential for water power. Nepal can be rich'  'All uranium from Nepal are being flown out in American on plane' "Nepal has mountains - it is very beautiful - so we can be rich through ...." "Nepal is poor because of India - we can not change our neighbour and it is a landlock country. If Nepal had access to an ocean..." "Nepal would have progressed if King has ......" "The US has a big interest because of its geo location between India and Nepal" "Chor Neta heru le garda, ..." With this huge potential of Nepal to be another global power,  I struggle to drive 100 km in 4 hours. @Kantipuronline I now know that I know nothing about development.