Nepal, April 18 -- Nepal is home to countless historically and culturally significant heritages, including temples, stupas, palaces, monuments, hitis and other age-old structures. UNESCO has acknowledged Kathmandu Valley, Lumbini, Chitwan National Park and Sagarmatha National Park as the World Heritage Site, and the country is preparing to have Tilaurakot-the capital of the ancient Shakya dynasty-in the list. However, preserving these invaluable sites has been a challenge. Many of Kathmandu's heritages were reduced to rubble when a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in 2015. A decade on, the crumbled heritages of the valley, many of which are yet to be restored, lay bare the apathy of our authorities. Even as post-earthquake r...