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Kathmandu, Nepal
Joined February 2009
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Debunking Nepal's youth unemployment problem
This week, we have a guest essay by @nischaldhl on youth and employment where he debunks myths and provides advice on how Nepal can move forward.
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Arundhati Roy on our AI-led future: “A towering wall of stupidity is about to inundate us.” @Equatormag equator.org/articles/arundha…
US Ambassador Marquita Maytag invites PM Tulsi Giri to an orgy, goes braless wearing a t-shirt that says 'keep those tips up', hosts parties with ganja and cookies, refuses to vacate the embassy when fired, and illegally takes Nepali artifacts when she leaves the country.
This is, unreservedly, my favorite account of an ambassador behaving badly, from a diplomatic oral history site. I read this years ago and cannot forget it, and you won’t either. (If they made this a movie, it’d be R rated.)
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"Death permeated this Dashain. Hundreds of lives lost to floods just a month ago. There is no Dashain for their families and there will be no Tihar, just mourning..."
Revisit our piece reflecting on dashain and death.
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Nepal wants 30K MW of hydropower by 2035. But Rasuwa floods devastated hydropower projects, trapped workers in tunnels & exposed serious gaps in safety & oversight
As🇳🇵races to harness rivers, who bears the risks, who reaps the benefits? bit.ly/3TDsAwd @SanjeevSatgainy
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Nepal bet its future on its rivers. Recent floods show the risk.
Deep reporting by @subeksha on how recent natural disasters have exposed how a rush to build hydropower is outpacing safety, oversight, and the changing Himalayas
For Kantipur One premium readers, this week’s exclusive reporting in both Nepali and English:
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I rely on @WeeklyKalam to keep me informed about Nepal and help cut through the clutter with incisive analysis. Whether you are living in Nepal or outside Kalam is a must-read!
Finished Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, Tales of Phantasia, Megaman X3, Bahamut Lagoon, Terranigma, Seiken Densetsu 3, and Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu, all on the ZSNES when I was 15.
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Today, a landslide in the Gorkha district of Nepal blocked the Budhi Gandaki River and caused flooding downstream. Authorities have urged villagers to move to safer places. Several houses, two suspension bridges and a hydropower project were damaged but no casualties have been reported so far.
In August, writer Pranaya Rana (@inkthink) and his friends left Kathmandu at 5 am for a pilgrimage to Gosainkunda. The flood from Langtang Lirung came down the Trishuli about an hour behind them. In this piece, he writes about what it means to live in a country where disaster can arrive without warning, and where, in his words, the next time “it could be me.”: himalmag.com/nepal-flood-cli…
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For anyone who might be interested—this is a cleaned-up version of the keynote speech I gave last week at the Middle Ground Nepal Literature Festival in Berlin. manjushree.substack.com/p/to…
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It was funny when this Anne Carson poem got posted on here and people got mad at her because it didn't match their own experience of Saturday night as an adult
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Our latest report about the 40 hostages who were abducted alive on Oct 7, but died in captivity is based on interviews with dozens of hostage families and Israeli mil & gov't officials.
And it's layered. So I want to break down the most important findings, beginning with... 1/🧵
Everyone should read If Not, Winter, everyone should read Nox, everyone should read 1=1. Anne Carson is brilliant.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
This was much harder than the nine books. Had to leave out so many and I'm still not sure about these nine. (Replace Rai ko Ris' Nepal ko Katha Haru with Himalayan Frostbite, which didn't show up.)
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Their shine may have dulled a bit over the past six months, but Shah and his government remain broadly popular, even as many of their actions draw criticism.
This week, we take a closer look on what has the Balen government accomplished in six months.
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The Balen Shah government completed six months in office. In the half-year since it came to power, this government, led by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, has earned both praise and condemnation. (1/2)
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