Category Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Kantipur FM Commentary: Kali Gandaki “A” Hydroelectric Power Plant

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When I did this episode of Kantipur FM radio program The Music Jam in 1998, only a year had passed since construction of Kali Gandaki "A" hydroelectric power plant had begun. (It would ultimately be completed in 2002). And yet, a number of irregularities had already surfaced and the project was already mired in controversy.

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Nepali PM Deuba: “Nepalese people are so brave…they are coping as if nothing happened. […]Trauma? There is no trauma”

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How out of touch and/or unfeeling and/or morally bankrupt would you have to be to make declaration such as that which PM Sher Bahadur Deuba made at the Columbia University World Leaders Forum on September 21, 2017?

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