AS NEPAL braced for what was expected, on the evening of 7 September, to be a minor youth protest, Dr Anaya Joshi, a Christian theologian based in Kathmandu, was waiting to board her flight to Dubai. Nepal’s Christian community has long lived under the shadow of such threats. When flights were grounded and violence shut down roads, a Christian family in Bhaktapur rode motorbikes through flaming intersections to rescue two foreign aid workers stranded at the airport.