If protests against Dassain hurt your sentiments…

Post published:June 19, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

While, for the hill so-called high caste Hindus, Dassain is the biggest religious festival, for many others, it--along with a lot of the other things--is a symbol of suppression and oppression their ancestors suffered from. So, if, as a high caste, your sentiments are hurt by protests against it, I invite you to reflect and imagine how much and how long the sentiments of others and their ancestors must have been hurt by the suppression of, for example, their festivals.

Coronavirus Pandemic in Nepal: No Strategy…So Say The Charts

Post published:June 7, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal

If charts could speak, these charts of mine would scream, "Where is your strategy?" Five months since news of the coronavirus reached us, four since the first case of infection, and over two of lockdown, and now with the cases entering exponential growth phase, Government of Nepal still does NOT appear to have a strategy. That COULD spell a humanitarian crises in the country.

COVID-19 And MoHP: A Small Big Deal

Post published:May 22, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal

An example of a little thing that matters but Nepalis don't care much about and as a consequence of which suffer in big ways!

Coronavirus and COVID-19 in Nepal: Information and Resources

Post published:March 24, 2020
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal COVID-19 Nepal

Some information and resources on the coronavirus and COVID-19 for the people of Nepal.

Unleashing Nepal: Bandhs…A Waste of Youth

Post published:December 5, 2018
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

A brief history of the tradition of bandh (shut downs) in the country and how this tool employed by everyone from political parties to trade unions to even disgruntled families, along with the politicization of education, have robbed many youths of their potential. The youths, invariably, were always the ones mobilized to enforce them!

Nepal, Where Doing the Right Thing Could Be Wrong

Post published:November 11, 2018
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal Nepal Education & Parenting

At a night club in Kathmandu, I recorded a video of a birthday celebration which included Roman candles on a cake, and aerosol sprays. It could have ended in disaster if not for the big space. I went and shared my concerns with the party-goers, which could have also ended in disaster...for me.

I have discovered that doing the right thing in Nepal could turn out to be the wrong thing to do because things might just not go the way you reasonably expect.