Over dinner in Kathmandu, my friend was becoming increasingly agitated. It was not the fate of her own business – high-end fashion design and retail – that concerned her most, though a winter-long electricity shortage that had blacked out the Nepalese capital for nearly 19 hours a day had crippled it, along with many others. Her biggest worry was the fate of the business belonging to a Tibetan friend.
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