Bhaktapur earthquake

The road to Bandipur, they said, would be newly paved. Smooth. Hopeful, even. A glimmer of progress slicing through the Himalayan foothills like a promise. They didn’t say that progress in Nepal is more of a conceptual aspiration than a practical reality. Still, with our usual optimism — and the intestinal fortitude that only a 6:30 a.m. [...]