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A Nepali queue is not a line. It is a working agreement about who arrived first, enforced entirely by eye contact.
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Nothing in Nepal is thrown away. It is moved to the roof, where it becomes the roof’s problem.
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Every Nepali kitchen has a Horlicks jar, and the chances of it containing Horlicks are not good.
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A power cut ends the moment you have finished lighting the last candle.
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The plastic chair is the national furniture. It attends every wedding, every funeral and every rooftop, and nobody owns any.
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Nepali directions never contain a street name. They contain a landmark that was demolished in 2018.
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Every Nepali household owns exactly one pair of scissors, and it lives in a different room each week.
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Nepali time is not late. Everyone else is simply early.
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