The whole nation witnessed an unusually heavy rainfall which resulted in massive flooding and landslides across the country. Many farmers and their families are in deep grief as hundreds of thousands of hectares of ready-to-harvest paddy are submerged in water. More than 100 people died in the hands of floods and landslides caused by these post-monsoon rainfalls. Some questions that got me were: Could those lives be saved? And, are pre- and post-monsoons just a cover-up for the irresponsible disaster management and risk reduction authorities in Nepal? Or do they just expose it?
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