The protests in Nepal earlier in September that led to the government being ousted bear an eerie resemblance to the events in Bangladesh last year and in Sri Lanka in 2022.

The root cause of all three protests was economic distress. They were led by people’s movements and seemed spontaneous.

In Bangladesh, it was the perceived unfairness in job quotas that lit the spark, in Sri Lanka rising inflation led to the revolt, while in Nepal the immediate trigger was the ban on social media sites. But the root cause was economic stagnation that frustrated the aspirations of youth for quality education and stable jobs.

However, rather than heading for the kind of choppiness that Bangladesh is facing, it seems that Nepal will follow the relative calm of Sri Lanka.

Perhaps that has something to d

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