Trishuli, September 4 At the banks of the Trishuli, 86-year-old Bhuwan Prasad Gh

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Trishuli, September 4 At the banks of the Trishuli, 86-year-old Bhuwan Prasad Ghimire leaned on his walking stick and stared across the river. He has spent his entire life beside the Trishuli. He has watched it rise and fall through the seasons, lived through its quieter days and its angry ones. But what he saw now was beyond anything he had known. The concrete bridge and the old suspension bridge that once connected the two sides had both been swept away. “I have spent my whole life on the banks of the Trishuli,” Ghimire said. “I had never seen the river like this, nor even imagined it in my dreams. I had never heard my forefathers speak of such destruction.” Then he fell silent. For communities living along the river, the flood has destroyed much more than houses and bridges. It has broken the physical connections that allowed people to cross from one bank to another in minutes, to visit relatives, trade goods, attend school or reach a hospital. It has also created something less visible but increasingly frightening: an information vacuum.