September 18, 2021: On the Path To Recovery Finally…After Eight Years

Post published:April 30, 2024
Post category:My Personal Stories Qatar Academy

Eleven years since the most harrowing and traumatic twelve-day experience of my life in Doha, Qatar, for allegedly insulting Islam, I can say I have finally recovered.

However, it wasn't until after eight years of struggles with the fallout that experience, in September 2021, that I realized I was finally on the road to recovery. and shared that fact on social media. This is a reproduction of that post including some additional information.

Trying Times

Post published:April 28, 2024
Post category:My Personal Stories Qatar Academy

Challenges of recovering from an unjust and traumatic experience while living and working in one's own country, repatriating after having lived abroad for most the twenty-five years prior to that.

Change helps.

When Structural Privilege Blinds and Subtle Internalized Casteism Guides II

Post published:October 6, 2023
Post category:My Personal Stories Social Justice

The caste system has corrupted the minds of a vast majority of Nepalis, if not all. This is yet another example of how it has corrupted the minds of the Hill so-called High Caste Hindus.

Blinded as they are by structural privilege and their sense of entitlement their social group has enjoyed for generations, they demonstrate subtle internalized casteism stemming from their unconscious belief in superiority and greater knowledgeability.

Notes from the Nineties: Educational Institutions and the Ridiculous

Post published:January 22, 2023
Post category:My Personal Stories Nepal Education & Parenting

Something on education I appear to have written in 1997-98 when I was in Nepal for a longish stay. It's basically some observations about education in Nepal--mainly how appears to be on a path it shouldn't be.

Risky Business

Post published:January 14, 2023
Post category:My Personal Stories Nepal Education & Parenting

Another reproduction of a short story I wrote as a student in Nepal-- this one as a 9th grader. I happen to have a copy of it because I still own a copy of the issue of the school magazine in which it was published!

My Work for the Giant

Post published:January 12, 2023
Post category:My Personal Stories Nepal Education & Parenting

Reproduction of a story I wrote as maybe a 7th grader in an on-the-spot short-story writing contest. I reproduce it here because the story won first prize!