The heart of the country Kathmandu

 I was born in Kathmandu and have been living here since the last 19 years. For some people Kathmandu is crowded, polluted and dangerous. I too feel that sometimes. Just ten years back this city was a perfect place for tourists. There were green everywhere, less people and vehicles but now since the people around the country moved in here it’s densely populated.

In recent years the heart of the country has turned into a centre for bomb explosion, robbery, murder and political mishaps. Not just that Kathmandu has turned into a city that always sleeps because of the load of power cut it bears. There are other problems as well that people face in Kathmandu such as pollution, traffic, lack of drinking water, lack of petroleum etc.

 There are different difficulties in Kathmandu yet it is no less than any other cosmopolitan cities in the world. It has large shopping malls, numbers of hotels and restaurant, clubs and multiplex etc. Not just that it has been providing job opportunities to people around the country and it has numerous amount of financial institutions, schools and colleges, government organizations etc.

For any human being though they live in any part of the world they have a different kind of affection for their home town. So, do I. If there are threats in Kathmandu there are opportunities as well. If there are problems here, there should be a solution as well. So I believe it’s our responsibility as well to make Kathmandu a better place to live.

-Pralisha Joshi