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Viva la weekend

The long awaited overdue 18 hour load shedding will greet us sooner than we can digest all the grease from mutton hogging this Dasain. For a change we might just have to bear with only 14 hours of load shedding per day if the country adopts five days work week. The present government wants to try a five days’ work week to reduce energy consumption and thus reduce load shedding. Strange but the load shedding and our country’s inability to harness energy might just be a blessing in disguise. What is the hum about trying a five days’ work week? There are 196 countries in our world and almost all of these countries implement five days work week. The governments that took reins after Gyanendra have changed everything from our national anthem to our currency. The popular move for these movers and shakers would instead be to cut the six working days to five.   If the Maoists, the Congress and the MLAs thought working six days a week produced more results I am afraid this could be...