Birth is a beginning…not an end, unlike how the Caste System in Nepal treats it.

Caste in Nepal (and India) Can be Triggering. What And How? Depends

Nepali society suffers greatly from the legacies of our long casteist history. One of the legacies is that caste can be triggering. What it triggers and how depends on the individual and more importantly on their caste. However, the abysmally poor quality of education system and poor level of education of the population of Nepal means that most don't know much about that, and worse react inappropriately when those who are triggered speak up.

BUT those who don't know, can learn about all that from those small numbers who are speaking up. All that is required of them is to listen! That's it.

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NOT Surprised Nepal’s Judiciary is Corrupt; Would Have Been if NOT — Here’s Why

I am NOT surprised by the fact that so many of the systems in Nepal are so thoroughly corrupt. Reason? Select ethnic/caste groups(s) monopolizing State structures continuously for centuries, as had been the case in this country, is itself one of the root causes -- if not THE root cause -- as well as evidence of corruption.

The judiciary is no exception.

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To a hill so-called High Caste Hindu Professor, sharing evidence of structural issues is being “communal” and having “venom” for “certain ethnicity”!

One of the many legacies of the long casteist history of the country is the major structural issues Nepal continues to face. Evidences abound! But I keep coming across hill so-called High caste Hindus who can't see or refuse to see the evidences for what they are.

This is about one such man, a professor at a medical college no less!

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