Diaspora Diaries 53 | Nepali Times
"When I missed my family, I would play the tapes on a Sony that I bought for 60 riyal. When I was alone in my camp dorm, I would record whatever I wanted to tell my family, replay the recording and if it was good enough, I sent it to Nepal with some cash, wrapping it all in layers of cellotape."
Read the full story: https://nepalitimes.com/here-now/the-first-migrant-worker-from-my-village
Mother Tongue: A Haunting by Samyak Shertok
‘If poetry is, as has been defined, a species of magic, Samyak Shertok has conjured an elegant and sophisticated collection that is full of hybridity in form and subject… We are given a view into the conjuring, his view on how language expresses and depresses, how language as noise can mix into cacophony or clarify home.’
Profile of Samyal Shertok, recent winner of the Donald Hall Prize for Poetry in the US: https://nepalitimes.com/multimedia/finding-a-permanent-home-in-poetry
Meet Ryo and Mari Honda, a Japanese couple who run a fine dining Nepali restaurant in Tokyo.
Ryo’s love affair with Nepal began in Kobe in 2007 when he started working at a Nepali restaurant. He has been coming to Nepal since to explore local culture and cuisine.
Full story: https://nepalitimes.com/multimedia/a-taste-of-old-nepal-in-tokyo
PING: How to make a Dasain bamboo swing in some easy steps
#repost From choosing the best bamboo, spending hours to cut it clean and tying it up with jute ropes, it takes a day to set up a linge ping. There is a belief that one must leave the ground at least once a year by riding on the swing during Dasain to obtain salvation.
Watch Changunarayan residents spend their day on a swing-making spree:
“The buses were all stuck because the highway was blocked, and the landslide fell and buried them with the passengers sleeping inside. If the debris up the road had been cleared in time, the buses would have been able to continue on to Kathmandu.”
Full story: https://nepalitimes.com/multimedia/the-mountain-fell-on-top-of-us
Kumar Gurung, 54, was bailing out muddy water from inside his half-demolished house. He had bought the home only two days previously in the village of Bhaleswar with Rs3 million that his son, Dinesh, saved after working in Qatar. #nepalfloods
Full story: https://nepalitimes.com/multimedia/a-flood-of-tears-on-the-rosi
Flooded roads along the Balkhu-Chobhar road has stopped all vehicular and pedestrian movement. As river levels are expected to rise further, the Home Ministry has advised people not to travel unless it is urgent.
Video: SUMAN NEPALI / NEPALI TIMES
Nakhudol residents collect their belongings and evacuate from the flooded area on Saturday morning as their homes were submerged by the rains. Kathmandu received a record 600mm in the last 24 hours.
Video: GOPEN RAI / NEPALI TIMES
A warming atmosphere also warms perennially frozen mountains. The stability of frozen rocks decreases with increasing temperature similar to how butter just taken out of a fridge becomes softer and less resistant to the cutting force of the knife.
Thawing frozen mountains means softening them, making them less resistant against gravity, leading to breakage of small to large sections, resulting in rock falls, rock avalanches, and landslides.
There is growing concern about the impact of global warming on the stability of icy peaks in mountain ranges around the world, which several recent events in the Himalaya well illustrate.
The rapid thawing of the Himalayan ice-cap is compounded by the little-studied melting of permafrost that destabilises peaks.
The question is, what can we do about it?
A report by Wilfried Haeberli and Alton C Byers.
Read more: https://nepalitimes.com/multimedia/the-not-so-permanent-frost
