Butwal, July 25 -- one-year-old Dirgha Bahadur Kumal is astonished by the rapid development of Nuwakot, an ancient town and protected area in the Chure hills.
A lifelong resident of Tinau rural municipality-1 in Palpa, he has been foraging and farming on the Nuwakot hill since childhood. Back then, Nuwakot had barely eight or ten houses.
Now, homes are sprouting daily, and new hotels are opening. The contrast between the past, when he farmed the land, and the present, as houses rise on that same soil, is stark.
When Dirgha Bahadur was a teenager, Nuwakot had dense forests and sparse housing, but it was teeming with people. Travellers from Palpa, Gulmi, Arghakhanchi, and Syangja passed through the area with ghee to barter for salt from ...
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