Nepal, May 4 -- On Wednesday afternoon, Daya Dudraj, a reporter for Kantipur Daily, a sister publication of the Post, was trying to document the plight of evicted landless squatters living under tarpaulin sheets in the rain, in the rehabilitation centre in Kirtipur, when a municipal police personnel grabbed him by the arm and issued a demand for the deletion of recorded footage. When he questioned the legal basis for such a restriction, the response was a refrain that has become the hallmark of the current administration: Orders from above. The encounter reached a pinnacle of absurdity when a police officer compared the possession of a press identification card to the possession of a firearm, asking if the presence of a gun meant it shoul...