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Kathmandu Friday December 14, 2001 Marga 29, 2058.
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What a pity !
Iam an artist from Germany
coming to this country for many a time. I like to sketch the people and the cows and bulls
in the street. My favourite was the big old bull - kalo thulo sande - moving his big bulk
slowly and hesitantly along or lying in the street taking up the space of three
motorbikes. Well, and that was his undoing. A week ago, I walked past Hanuman Dhoka. There
was a huge truck and a crowd of people around it. I pushed through the crowd, and I saw
the big bull lying all trussed up on the ground. Several men were trying to lift him onto
the truck. I was told that he would be taken "somewhere", because he was
obstructing the ever-increasing traffic. What a pity, tourists will miss him as he was an
asset to the Kathmandu scenery.
I for my part would have
preferred to walk around he bull instead of dodging the aggressive motorbike riders that
make walking in the street a life-threatening hazard.
Marga E Hildebrandt
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