Don’t look up. Just don’t. Just keep looking down and lift your stupid leg. Good. Now the other.
-the neck instinctively cranes upward-
No! No! Not yet. Two more steps, then you can look. Two more deep breaths of this thin air, then look.… Read More
Don’t shit where you live.
One imagined this to be a universal tenet. One shared by all. Or so I thought.
I’m swinging a pickaxe on the third storey of a crumbling mud-brick house on the outskirts of the Kathmandu valley, and I’m up to my ankles in human waste.… Read More
I arrived into Kathmandu on the eve of the year 2073. For the non-lunar calendar users say that puts us at about April 13th, 2016. The city one year on from the earthquake was lively and gearing up for the evenings festivities.… Read More
In 2001, King Dipendra of Nepal reigned for just 56hrs. He did so from a hospital bed, in a coma, having just gunned down almost the entire Royal family as it was sitting down to Sunday dinner.… Read More