Nepal, July 29 -- evendra Raj Panday who died 15 July in Kathmandu lived a remarkable life that was a shining multidimensional mosaic. The constant guiding beacon he followed and espoused for others was 'integrity'.

He himself was exemplary in the practice of integrity in both his personal and professional life, and this was widely known and appreciated in Nepal and abroad. It was his defining trademark, making him a genuine rarity.

Later in his career, he became engrossed with a different perspective: the 'idea of integrity' as a foundational normative principle necessary to create a just and equitable society and nation.

His initial exposition of this idea was related to his steadfast role as an anticorruption campaigner in Transpar...