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Earth Day-Nepal 2010
My parents hesitated to get a property so far away from downtown since you had to encounter foxes and wild dogs to get to it after dark. Less than 30 years to it, all the eye can see from here is lumps of concrete. Forget the paddy fields and our football playgrounds, even the trees that covered the Ring-Road sides were gone the last time I went back. My sister back home told me yesterday that the old well they used to get their drinking water from went dry last week.
Kathmandu truly looks like a big mess and a catastrophe waiting to happen. It gives me chills to even try to relate to what happened in Haiti. ‘Hariyo ban Nepal ko dhan’, which means Greenery is Nepal’s wealth, sounds like a verse lost in distant history. On this day – Earth Day 2010; lets raise our voices to spread awareness on this subject. Lets stop this onslaught of concrete, lets bring our essence, our life, our true ‘hariyo dhan’ back to Kathmandu.