“Choking the Valley”
the hills around Kathmandu
From the hills around Kathmandu, the valley does not look like a lively city but rather like a landscape that is imprisoned in a dome of suffocation.
The distinct mountain range of the city is no longer visible because they have disappeared behind a layer of smog which is dark and stagnant. However, this is not a sadistic picture one sees from afar but the cage of pollution that hundreds of thousands of people are forced to live in every day of their life.
Beneath this layer of smog lie the children going to school, policemen controlling the traffic junctions and older generation staying indoors.
Each breath that is drawn through the nose in there carries along with it a deadly mixture of automobile emissions, brick kiln emissions and dust created during construction projects. When the entire valley gets covered by haze, pollution is no longer a personal problem but rather a communal issue.
We should not let the horizon choke us into suffocation anymore.
Clean air is a basic human right and a must for the survival of all who reside below the smog.
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