Ratopati: “Shots Fired in Mhyepi, Five Apprehended: Here’s What Happened”
Reproduction and translation of a Nepali article in Ratopati about a recent incident of gun-violence near Thamel, the tourist district in Kathmandu.
Reproduction and translation of a Nepali article in Ratopati about a recent incident of gun-violence near Thamel, the tourist district in Kathmandu.
In the embedded video, Chinese pedestrians take drastic action at crosswalks (zebra crossings). What if pedestrians in Kathmandu did the same? How would Kathmandu drivers react, I wonder! I really do!
Holes on the streets of Kathmandu engulfing children, animals and vehicles, show there are gaping holes elsewhere too.
I have argued over and over again that it's not that we in Nepal can't do what we should do to develop, to make progress, but that we WON'T do them. We do them only when, for whatever reason, we feel that we absolutely HAVE to, for example.
Here's an example of that.
In a country where lawmakers are also some of the main lawbreakers, how much can you trust them to do the right thing for the country?
In a country where the connected and the powerful make sure that the law applies only to the poor, how can we trust what the government says?
A reproduction of the March 12 (1998) Kantipur FM episode of the Malboro Music Network program in which I talked about an issue surrounding wild life contraband.