चाेखाे माया डट कम: जन्मभूमि नेपाल र नेपालीहरूमा समर्पित

  A thick envelope of dust. The layer is so thick that the man behind the wheel, in all likelihood, is finding it quite difficult to find which is the road—a sliver cut through landslide-prone terrains—and which is not. Each vehicle passing through the artery leaves behind a cloud, making it very very difficult for every motorist to navigate the stretch and adding to the agonies of hapless passengers.  K garne? Little inconveniences like these are welcome in our march for progress and prosperity, right? Still, there’s a pattern to road construction and expansion works in Nepal.  Monstrous earth-moving equipment start attacking our fragile terrains in the holy name of road expansion, exposing stretches destabilized during the earlier phases to greater risks. Yours truly is not an authority figure in road works, but his observation is that a fresh phase of expansion/upgradation work begins not long after the completion of an earlier phase, causing further destabilization of...