Nepal is still a very traditional society which is changing very slowly. The people still remain rooted to the land and agricultural is almost everyone’s principle occupation. The production of goods from wood, metal, leather and clothes is in the hands of individual artisans and craftsmen. There are only a few cottage industries and entreprenuers, but no large industries and no vast systems of distributions and consumption of manufactured products. Water and the human energy are the main sources of power used in operating few machines that exist.
People are tied to each other through family and kinship or through deeply established beliefs, customs and traditions which guide their behaviour in almost every aspect of social life.
Communication between people for vast majority of the population is a matter of oral word. Print media is available but only a limited number of people are sufficiently affluent or literate enough to use them. Even those who can read and comprehend the reading materials have no access to them due to the high costs and there is big problem of distribution. Printed materials are a luxury to many people. All newspapers are printed and distributed in towns and they play a very little part in the daily affairs of the population at large.
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