Listing to interminable, reactionary rambles on the quagmire of Nepali politics, I sit shrouded in my own darkness, list in the flickering flames we draw on, amused only by the idea that this Baluwatar space, once most likely the seat of a minor noble in Rana times, also served as the headquarters of the royalist Janashakti Party, before its modern-day incarnation as *Nhuchhe’s Kitchen: The Organic Bistro. Where last year I sip-supped on laligurans juice (a little tar, refreshing, and awfully nationalistic) and organic buff momos from Kavre, presumably reared with much tender care before being dragged off to the slaughtering grounds in the Valley mooing Jai Bajrangabali Mata Ki Jai Please Toot and Have A Nice Day!

(*since incarnated once more as a Thai & Organic restaurant!)