Watch Nepal's Gen Z Uprising on Tuesday 10 March at 9.30pm AEDT on SBS and SBS On Demand. Shantanu Dhakal is only now telling his story. That's because for months, a tracheostomy tube in his throat allowed him to breathe, but not to talk. For the schoolboy, slowly recovering from a bullet to the jaw — fired by police during Nepal's gen Z uprising in September — the tube's removal just days before his interview with SBS Dateline at his rural home in Nepal was a milestone.