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

Nepal: Citizenship, Ultranationalists, Marital Status, And Our Inhumanity

To me, the worth of a Nation is in the way it treats the weakest and the most vulnerable within its borders.

The way it has been treating the most vulnerable-- children, women, Dalits, and the home-born "refugee" -- Nepal as a nation has little to no worth.

Our nation has lost our humanity and Buddha would be ashamed of us.

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Caste System Fostered and Propped up Groupism in Nepal Corrals People into Small Social Circles Part II

The "brilliance" of the caste system is what Ambedkhar characterized as its inherent "graded inequality."

In Nepal, the gradation can be found not just between the five castes, but also between the ethnic groups, between communities that make up an ethnic group, within communities and therefore between individuals.

And because social status is valued so much, the gradation has determined who you could marry and form a familial alliance with, which in turn dictates who you socialize with the most. Were inter-caste marriage the norm, the caste system would break down.

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Arranged…Agony for an Adult Daughter

A reproduction of an Instagram post about a family in Nepal pressuring their young professional adult medical doctor daughter based in Australia to accept an arranged marriage proposal from a complete stranger. In spite of her "No" the day the post was published, it had been three weeks of constant pressure from the family to accept the proposal, completely ignoring her wishes and thus putting her through a lot of mental and emotional agony!

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When Form and Protocol (“Sanskriti”) Generally Take Precedent Over and Is Valued More Than Substance…

When form and protocol generally take precedent over and is valued more than substance, a society struggles to make social, economic, and political progress. One such form and protocol is showing respect for and/or deferring to old men. In this blog post I demonstrate how two old men use the guise of lack respect for old men as a pretext for silencing young adult women of similar academic and professional stature as them for no other reason than the fact that they are female.

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