tapai lai aile kasto cha? (so how are you now?)
The above statement seems to hold true for anybody, anytime in Kathmandu these days. Ask anybody, so how are you now? It refers to the fact that you know about their last ailment which was not too long ago and that you are concerned and ready to listen to their woes. They will start off with their stuff then.
Every other person you meet is ill or had been just out of a bed ridden ailment. Is it the weather? Is it the water? the dust? the humidity? the everything? This city has definitely been listed as one of the most polluted cities, one of the most expensive cities, but is there such indicator as one of the most sick cities where most population is ill most of the time? These back-pain ridden, head ache stricken, stomach upset population is found in offices, at factories, garages, shops, doing their daily morning walks, evening strolls, afternoon stretches and the life goes on. God save Kathmandu!
As if the recent depiction of an earthquake for Kathmandu was not enough, as if the imminence of a deadly liquidation is not enough, the drainage system showed its colors a few days back when the gullies and major streets of the city were inundated. The daily cartoon which showed a police officer listening to a complaining motorcyclist, both under chest deep rain fall - "Not, my parked motorbike, the one I was riding got lost!"
The hovering clouds at dusk before the incessant bout of rains:
The above statement seems to hold true for anybody, anytime in Kathmandu these days. Ask anybody, so how are you now? It refers to the fact that you know about their last ailment which was not too long ago and that you are concerned and ready to listen to their woes. They will start off with their stuff then.
Every other person you meet is ill or had been just out of a bed ridden ailment. Is it the weather? Is it the water? the dust? the humidity? the everything? This city has definitely been listed as one of the most polluted cities, one of the most expensive cities, but is there such indicator as one of the most sick cities where most population is ill most of the time? These back-pain ridden, head ache stricken, stomach upset population is found in offices, at factories, garages, shops, doing their daily morning walks, evening strolls, afternoon stretches and the life goes on. God save Kathmandu!
As if the recent depiction of an earthquake for Kathmandu was not enough, as if the imminence of a deadly liquidation is not enough, the drainage system showed its colors a few days back when the gullies and major streets of the city were inundated. The daily cartoon which showed a police officer listening to a complaining motorcyclist, both under chest deep rain fall - "Not, my parked motorbike, the one I was riding got lost!"
The hovering clouds at dusk before the incessant bout of rains:
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