The Great Reverse Migration: How Tourism and Tradition Are Bringing Life Back to Tangting

RUDRA KHADKA

TANGTING(KASKI)- For decades, the story of rural Nepal has been a repetitive, somber narrative of departure. It is a story written in the dust of winding mountain trails by the feet of young men and women heading toward the neon lights of Kathmandu, the lakeside promises of Pokhara, or the sweltering labor camps of the Gulf. For a long time, the hills of the Kaski district were no exception. Villages were slowly becoming silent galleries of the elderly and the very young, a demographic hollowed out by the relentless search for a better life in distant concrete jungles.