Balendra Shah (Balen Shah) was recently elected the new Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Many young people actively participated in the election and chose Shah as the most suitable candidate for the mayorship of the capital city. In this context, Samiksha Shrestha of Republica’s My City talked to a few young citizens of the Kathmandu Valley to learn about their expectations of the new mayor in order to make Kathmandu a better city for them. Excerpts:

Fancy restaurants and luxurious hotels are the least of your concerns when you are hungry. Good food is all you need. If you’re craving a Newari delicacy and are near Indrachowk of Ason, you happen to be around the best place to visit for authentic, cheaper and hygienic Newari Khaja set around the New Road area. Located at the heart of Kathmandu, Indrachowk Newari Bara serves simple and homemade Newari dishes that will leave your taste buds wanting more.

The happy place where I belong,  It does not feel the same, and  now it will never make me strong, The home is not the old home any more, Where we sang songs, played and laughed even on the empty floor, Now the place has every amenities,

Here I am crying on my own,  Resting my head on the same old pillow,  Gliding under the bed, the surface is hollow,  Like my mind, mellow and willow,  I don't know if I'm Saddened or depressed,  Or can't figure out if it's both but I get undressed,  Naked, I stand in front of the mirror,  I get terrified, oh! What a horror?,  It's not my body that I'm afraid of,  It's the mind that has been damaged,

Twenty one Turned 21, but I haven't grown up much, I'd be successful, but wait that's just a hunch, Lately, I have realized my life is nothing but a pun,  And that the world continuously spun, Dizzy in these rapid circles of chaos, I found myself in a different cosmos, I can't figure out the realm,