The City Which Never Gets Rest

Every morning the day in Kathmandu begins at 4, 5 am. The parents make a good deal of efforts waking up their children from slumber to gear up for the schools and colleges. Some kids crying louder bothering their neighbor and adamant to get up. The teenagers, the college goers have even tougher time getting up as early as 5 and get prepared. It is curious that the girls manage to get wonderfully dressed with amazing make ups so early.

The streets are already full of activity at early morning. There is circular motion of college goers moving here and there at every direction with diverse colors uniforms. Mask clad girls can be seen stepping ahead enigmatically protecting themselves from the dust and feel carefree inside undisclosed identity. Some girls are sticking to their lean boyfriends in fancy modified bikes riding at the speed of 70 km per hour. So it is not strange to witness mishaps early in the morning due to over-speeding of bikes.

The sweepers already ‘finish up’ their duties early by the dawn. The morning walkers seem targeting different directions revitalizing their energy passing through the circle of dust. The porters are already gathered at chowks hope get employment of moving the merchandise. The rag pickers are already surrounding the garbage piles. Slowly the street is thickening up by the vehicular movement and passersby. Entire city remains busy, dusty, congested, crowded throughout the day. The congestion is more awful at evenings. It is hard to differentiate between the pavement and road because both the places are used by the commuters and vehicles together. People look hurrying up to their destinations. The ears get deafening blows due to biker’s honking searching for the road ahead as if they are in the great emergency.

The night life begins with the engagements to star hotels to cafes to dance bars to dohari bars to discos. Mostly they are jampacked with the young crowd. Various recreations & enjoyments are obtainable at different places according to the class & choice of people. This saga remains until late night. Another segment of the netizens is ready to wake up for the following day when some are yet to finish up the day. So the city never gets rest rumbling with the crowd everyday & night while humbly furnishing all the good and ugly demands of the citizens without getting any act of care & compassion return. It simply obtains the trademark of polluted, dirty, filthy city by the people who everyday simply contaminate the streets, rivers & the entire environment.