Dateline: Sindhupalchok
GOPEN RAI The 25 April earthquake can now unofficially be renamed the Sindhupalchok Tragedy, such was the scale of death and destruction in this…
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May 8-14, 2015
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NEEDED: A MARSHALL PLAN
SHORT-TERM: emergency food, medicine and shelter, MEDIUM TERM: Semi-permanent housing, seeds for planting season, LONGTERM: Reconstruction, jobs
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GUEST COLUMN by Vinod Thomas
Learning from Disasters
Natural disasters are devastating lives and turning back years of development progress
Between The Lines by Tsering Dolker Gurung
Earning back the people’s trust
Public misgivings about the government were confirmed by its unhurried response to the earthquake
By The Way by Anurag Acharya
Rising from the rubble
"Come back next year, I promise you we will have rebuilt this place."
The Gadfly by David Seddon
A more responsive state
Reconstruction will have to involve not just rebuilding homes but restructuring the state
GUEST COLUMN by Victor Rana
A state in aftershock
Now for a common vision to rebuild the country and complete the constitution.
Nation
Two earthquakes in one lifetime
“I survived a big earthquake twice, but it was more frightening this time”
Sonia Awale
Sindhupalchok’s sorrow
The hard-hit district is losing hope despite being so close to the capital
Bhrikuti Rai
Life after deaths
The capital may be getting back to some normalcy, but the death and destruction in Melamchi is just too severe.
Cleaning instead of climbing
A multinational group of climbers decided that even if they couldn’t climb Everest, they would clean it up
Damien Francois
But faith is alive
The collapse of Kapan Church exposed the vulnerability of places of worship in Nepal
Monitoring the aftershocks
National Seismological Centre has been busy since the earthquake of 7.8 magnitude
Stéphane Huët
With a little help
International missions support Nepalis in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Stéphane Huët
Bright lights on a dark day
From a health post in Melamchi to the Health Ministry in Kathmandu there was compassion, competence and commitment in treating those injured in the quake
Mark Zimmerman
Aftershocks in a migrant economy
Villages without men struggle to cope with the aftermath of the earthquake
A concrete future
Nepalis may have been lulled into a false sense of security about the strength of reinforced concrete structures
Sonia Awale
Nepali Times Buzz
Addressing posttraumatic stress
Normal and common for people to have posttraumatic stress after an earthquake
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In this issue:
Dateline: Sindhupalchowk | Editorial: Needed: A Marshall Plan | Rising from the rubble | Learning from disasters | Two earthquakes in one lifetime | Earning back the people’s trust | Cleaning instead of climbing | But faith is alive | Monitoring the aftershocks | With a little help | As remote as Kathmandu | Crisis into opportunity | Bye-bye baba | India-China bhai-bhai | Bright lights on a dark day | Addressing posttraumatic stress | Aftershocks in a migrant economy | Sindhupalchok’s sorrow | Colour coded in Dhulikhel | Life after deaths