How will Kathmandu’s residents relate to, interact with, preserve, and pass on heritage sites that they have had little to no part in shaping?
Author: sanjitser
Heritage doesn’t disappear in a sudden cataclysmic shift. It dies slowly, one indifferent day at a time
On being asked why we move abroad
Pratap Malla might have built Rani Pokhari for his son Chakravartendra, but it has been consecrated into Kathmandu’s collective memory with the tears of thousands of others who came, loved and lost, after him
Tundikhel was home to rubble accumulated from Kathmandu’s most important heritage sites. This week, 25-tonne excavators nonchalantly scattered them to the wind
A portrait of a tiny, two-room Kathmandu library
Empty Reed 