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I escaped the Nepal flood by an hour. Like all Nepalis, I know disaster can hit me next time.

A writer reflects on a near miss with the flash flood and the precarity of life in Nepal amid climate change and inept government

By Pranaya Rana
I escaped the Nepal flood by an hour. Like all Nepalis, I know disaster can hit me next time.
Family members of persons missing after the Nepal floods search through images of bodies displayed on the walls of the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Kathmandu. With more than a thousand counted dead so far and close to 5000 missing, there is survivor’s guilt among the living. Photo: IMAGO / NurPhoto
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