Today the Indigenous Student Union are having a bandh. Not sure if anyone is really aware, but Nepal is known for its bandhs, also known as a strike. Whatever group of people for whatever reason, regardless of the day or time, will randomly protest about something they are passionate about and block roads for who knows how long. It is obviously a massive inconvenience and out in the rural areas it has caused problems with getting food supplies to very poor villages. In the Kathmandu Valley it just makes it real difficult to get to major parts of the city, making it take 1 hour to get to the airport which is less than 10kms away.
Anyways, bandhs are such a problem that some smart Nepali has created a website to keep track of it. Nepal Bandh even has a calendar which shows that this month there was only 1 day without any bandhs across the country. Gosh!
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