"Nepal's Development Tragedy: Threats and Possibilities was to find out which factors - capital, policy, governance or institution were constraints to Nepal's development. Detailed analysis on Nepal's development experiments, agriculture, food security, infrastructure, unemployment, states restructuring and fiscal federalism and inclusive growth is made on the authors' applied research conducted for various UN agencies.

"A wonderfully discursive account of the personal discovery of a great city. Looping through centuries and slaloming between journalism and history, memoir, mythology and gossip, Tom Bell has written a portrait of Kathmandu like no other, taking us from Manjushree to the Maoists via witches, colonial Orientalists, LSD cults, spies wars and old Serge Gainsbourg movies. A splendidly eccentric and enjoyable first book."

- William Dalrymple