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Mourning the Monuments of Nepal, Let's Not Forget the People
Written after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the opinion piece argues that public grief over damaged landmarks such as Kathmandu's Darbar Square often outweighs attention to the human toll, partly because of tourism ties and the shareability of before-and-after images. It compares this pattern to the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and other cases of heritage loss. The author concludes that mourning heritage is legitimate, but that rebuilding lives and monuments should not compete, and that the thousands of ordinary victims should not be overshadowed.
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