[3] Shakya is a Neoliberal management consultant who had been publishing a popular column with the pseudonym Artha Beed in the Nepali Times[4] and is currently a weekly columnist for the local newspaper The Kathmandu Post.

He writes the book from the perspective of a globally experienced private sector person with deep knowledge and experience of the Nepali economy.

It has featured thwarted attempts at democracy, a royal massacre and a coup, and finally Maoist guerrillas coming over ground, winning a popular electoral mandate and decisively ending the centuries-old institution of monarchy.

More unusually, the reader will read about Nepali youth with global desires and resourceful village communities who manage electricity while Kathmandu is plunged in darkness.

The four years could not have been more eventful as Nepal moves into another phase of electing a new Constituent Assembly, deciding on its federal structure, its form of government and the level of economic empowerment.