byLaxman Gurung picks me up in the morning and we ride from Thamel on his motorcycle toward the hills which surround the Kathmandu valley. He tells me that he doesn’t like to take people here normally because it’s too sensitive for him…Laxman is a beekeeper who moved to Kathmandu from Nalang in the Dhading district. “In the Gurung religion they worship jungle, water, soil. So his work with the union, and his personal experience as a beekeeper, led him into another struggle, where power and poison swirl together, in the Kathmandu valley. A big road, a smooth road, a private water tap in the private house?

Source: The Guardian June 21, 2024 06:28 UTC