Yatra “When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Certainly, if you are to avoid inconvenience in Nepal, you’ve got to get used to with “Nepali time”. That day I woke up at 4 in the morning, had a cup of tea and rushed from Boudha by the earliest micro bus to Koteshwor, where  it was already two hours that I had been waiting for my friends to pick me up. It was not that I knew very little of “Nepali time” i.e. the time allotted by people is always to be multiplied by a certain factor of safety–which in our case is generally more. But the long two-hour wait was surpassed by the excitement of tour to Nainital. The bus finally arrived at 8:15 and picked us from Bhatbhateni and as I was getting onto the bus,the sight of  its green license/number plate gave me some   relief–the travel would be relaxing. But still we were not out of the “Nepali time zone”: we waited for another hour before we finally hit the highway. The bus halted at Naubise for breakfast. To my surprise, it was...