Remembrance of recent past

It is impossible to write an obituary of a person who touched several people's lives without them realising it.

This is going to be a saga of two teens from Palpa that came to Kathmandu in the early 1970s in search of better opportunities. This is going to be a story of Kathmandu city as it evolved over the decades from a sleepy town into a bustling metropolis. This is also going to be a narrative of how the place and the person interacted with, and changed, each other. This is homage to the memory of Shyam Sunder Lal Kakshapati , 70, who passed away last week in Bangkok. He was the elder sibling of a friend of mine of over four decades. Friends of Gopal Sunder Lal Kakshapati usually discontinued their banter whenever Shyam Dai arrived, but his presence was unmistakable even when he was not around.