Kathmandu, May 4 -- three-year-old Kumari Tamang has again been left without a dwelling, nearly 25 years after she first settled in the Thapathali squatter settlement. On April 25, bulldozers arrived at the site where she had raised her children, reducing her hut to rubble. Sitting amid the debris, she wept as police urged her to remove her belongings while the clearance operation continued.

After her home was demolished, Tamang made her way to Dasharath Stadium at Tripureshwar where the government had set up a temporary desk to register those displaced. She was later taken to Hotel Tokyo Town in Balaju where she has been staying since. Although she has received immediate shelter, uncertainty over her future has begun to weigh heavily. ...