Hiti Pranali: Padma Sunder Joshi’s old mission to educate people about hitis in Kathmandu gets a new height

In 1997, the Kathmandu metropolitan city appointed Padma Sunder Joshi as a consultant and assigned him to revive two hitis in Kathmandu. A civil engineer by training, young Joshi was confident that his team would do wonders in the assignment.

But, he failed. Water did not flow from the structure his team had just built.