2015-earthquake

Falling through the cracks

The historic town of Harisiddhi is just 2km from the Ring Road, and still bears the scars of the earthquake from seven...

Sahina Shrestha

Rebuilding resilience 7 years later

Now that we are wrapping up reconstruction after 2015, we need to focus on building a disaster resilient Nepal

Nepal sees spike in suicides during pandemic

Two years ago after going through a bad relationship, a 36-year-old Kathmandu-based doctor started getting suicidal thoughts. During the long months of...

Sonia Awale

Kathmandu loses its open spaces

The tragic death tolls from two recent earthquakes in the Greater Himalaya should give Kathmandu residents pause. Kashmir, 2005: more than 73,000....

The spirit that is fire

Laxman Ranjit walks on past the Kasthamandap, one of the Valley’s oldest buildings, from which the city gets its name. There are...

Pratibha Tuladhar

Building back a beyul in Tsum

I was born and raised in Tsum Nubri’s Chhokangparo village in Upper Gorkha, the holy valley famous for its Kyiumolung pilgrimage. From...

Lessons not learned from 2015

The clock is ticking on the next Big One, but most schools are not prepared for disasters

Sonia Awale

Be prepared

Nepal’s National Earthquake Safety Day commemorates 15 January 1934, the day when a magnitude 8.3 quake epicentred in Okhaldhunga, killed at least...

Youth-led feeding campaign spreads across Nepal

Ansu Yadav’s food bank campaign seems almost to be inspired by Karl Marx’s famous axiom: ‘From each according to their ability, to each...

Building back Rani Pokhari even better

https://youtu.be/27DSJhsNLYgFive years after the earthquake destroyed its central temple, the 350-year-old Rani Pokhari royal pond at the centre of Kathmandu is finally...