An attempt on Lobuje East, 1991



In Kathmandu: Nepal’s capital city was crowded and chaotic. Pedestrians and motor-cyclists jostled for space in the city’s narrow streets. In May 1991, Nepal held democratic, multi-party parliamentary elections for the first time in over 30 years, and near the right-hand edge of this photograph (next to a man in a light-blue shirt) there’s the painted symbol of one of the political parties that contested the election – namely, …