“The local people should improve the quality of their lives.” […] “But let them not wear ties”

Post published:November 3, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Our political leaders and the Kathmandu elite have always been arrogant, self-righteous and patronizing when it came to the way they treat marginalized Nepalese.

Here's an example of that going all the way back to the early nineties when they opened and served up Mustang district as consumer products to trekkers and travellers.

Is it any wonder they are treating the people in the southern plains as they are now?!

Nepal Earthquake: Kathmandulivinglabs Org Tool

Post published:April 29, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Kathmandulivinglabs.org has launched a very very useful online tool for reporting incidents and mobilizing relief. Want to know more?

Nepal Earthquake: A Quick Update

One of the recently build artificial fish ponds.

Post published:April 27, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

As if the Nepalese people needed more suffering....

The Best I Have Heard…So Far

Post published:April 19, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Coined by a good friend of mine, Hornmandu as another label for the city of Kathmandu is quite apt. Here's why!

The Good, The Bad, and The Untouchables

Post published:March 30, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

We have two untouchables in Nepal: the ones most others don't want to touch and the ones most others can't touch! A lone man of conviction and principle is trying a group who fall in the latter camp putting his life on the line!

No Can Do In Kath Man Du

Post published:January 20, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

In Nepal, it seems, some rights -- even when it infringes on the rights of others -- can be asserted especially when you can back it up with violence! In other words, some rights -- granted by the law and constitution of the country -- which you should be able to assert peacefully, you might not assert, or be able to assert, because of the threat of violence against you!