Namaste, diaspora family. On Monday the government stopped searching for the 5,285 people still missing from the Bhotekoshi flood. Today the President signed an ordinance that lets their families have…
Namaste, diaspora family. On Wednesday the government formally stopped looking for survivors of the Bhotekoshi flood. Then more rain killed about 35 people, and an avalanche on Himlung killed fifteen…
Namaste, diaspora family. A month ago the mountain came down on the Bhotekoshi. On Thursday afternoon in New York, which was the small hours of Friday at home, the Prime Minister stood at the green…
Namaste, diaspora family. Four weeks since the Bhotekoshi came down, and this was the week the numbers moved in opposite directions. On Wednesday the disaster authority added nearly a thousand names…
Namaste, diaspora family. This is the third week since the Bhotekoshi came down, and the first in which the digest returns to its usual four sections. The flood is still in all of them.On Tuesday,…
Namaste, diaspora family. This is the second week of the Bhotekoshi disaster, and the digest is still given over mostly to it.The count passed a thousand on Tuesday. By Thursday noon the national…
Namaste, diaspora family. There is only one story this week, and it is the hardest one this digest has had to write.At about twenty to nine on Wednesday morning, a piece of glacier roughly six hundred…
Namaste, diaspora family. This was a heavy week, and the heaviest news lands squarely on our own people: Washington has formally ended Temporary Protected Status for Nepalis, leaving thousands of…
Namaste, diaspora family. It’s been a week of things stopping and things soaring; the agencies that send Nepalis abroad have downed tools entirely, gold has blown past Rs 300,000 a tola with festival…
Namaste, diaspora family. This was a hard week, and we will not pretend otherwise. As we write, search teams in Pakistan’s Karakoram are still looking for Nirmal “Nimsdai” Purja and several Nepali…
