“Putting Someone In Their Place”…Nepalese Style
If only a human being were reducible to a stereotype...if only a human being could be completely defined by the mere social construct of social status...if only.
NYC: Education for Freedom
Education is for freedom: freedom from the constraints of having to think, having to subscribe to attitudes and having to behave in ways dictated by the culture and society one is born into (whether in Nepal or elsewhere); freedom from the socioeconomic shackles one is born into if born into a low socioeconomic context in countries like Nepal and others.
TIC: Dreams, Humanity, Compassion & World Peace for a Meaningful Life
The embedded video is that of the presentation I gave at Thames International College in Kathmandu. I talked about dreams, humanity, compassion, international understanding, peace and making life meaningful to a small auditorium full of students doing their undergraduate studies in Social Work.
Social Justice: Marked From Birth
Details of the discrimination I faced in Nepal, what I do, and why I do what I do for those who suffer even more discrimination!
My Potholed Road to UWC
People and luck intervened in my life a number of times. One of those times luck intervened, I got to go to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy for two years. It's to provide that kind of intervention to deserving children that I have returned to Nepal.
Qatar…From Afar: Irony of Ironies
What I thought of, and expected from, Muslims and Arabs in general before I arrived in Qatar, and what I actually discovered about who, what and how they are as a people, based on how they treated me (and other Asians).