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You navigate your way through heaps of garbage piled on the roadside that tends to grow bigger each day until you have to practically walk on the road. Dangling wires jut out in awkward angles causing you to bend and twist to maneuver your way. Not to mention the potholes that require you to watch where you step with great vigilance. And then, there’s a clogged drainage system that leads to flooded roads every single time it rains. All in all, Kathmandu is one flawed city. And the tragedies of living in a flawed city are many. From daily life inconveniences to accidents, there seems to be absolutely no respite.

Sanjay Maharjan, 26, a medical student, was headed to meet his friend on his motorbike when he met with an accident that left him with several bruises and a broken front tooth. He wasn’t drunk, speeding or driving recklessly. On the way to Kumaripati, the unstable traffic post at Manbhawan toppled and fell on him when another motorbike hit against it. “I don’t understand why there’s a traffic post smack in the middle of a road that doesn’t need one,” says Maharjan. The locals of the area who witnessed the accident weren’t very surprised to see the traffic post sway dangerously before hitting Maharjan and causing him to fall off his bike as it had caused such an accident at least a dozen of times already.