Legal hurdles block death declarations for Nepal floods victims
My friend Tekraj Thami is a journalist. A month ago, he vanished in the floods that followed a glacier and bedrock collapse […]
Month: September 2026
Thousands of survivors shelter in schools weeks after Nepal floods
Three weeks after flash floods near the Nepal-Tibet border, more than 5,000 people remain missing. And thousands of displaced families have made […]
A Year After Nepal’s Uprising, Self-Immolations Test the State’s Promise of Change
Five people set themselves on fire in Nepal in July. Some are now reading the deaths as political in a country whose […]
Mud Everywhere, Bodies Left Uncollected, and Rescue Without a Rope
Upon reaching Nuwakot and Rasuwa right after the floods, I realized that the reality was far deeper and more painful than what […]
The River Came at Nine
As of the morning of Sept. 3, the ninth day of the Bhotekoshi flood, government figures show more than 1,200 bodies recovered […]