Samay Phalcha and Lalitpur city’s long fight to restore the demolished monument

Early morning on August 19, locals of Pulchok, Lalitpur had gathered on the roadside near the Ashoka Stupa to attend the scheduled foundation-stone laying ceremony ‘Samay Phalcha’, an old phalcha, a traditional resting place, that the Lalitpur city government was restoring.

The phalcha, associated with the procession of Rato Machhindranath, was demolished five decades ago.