Caste System Can Corrupt The Mind, Kill The Spirit, And Strip One of Humanity

Post published:May 15, 2021
Post category:Social Justice

Our social system, the caste system, is a pernicious, insidious, and a deeply corrupt monstrosity. It corrupts the mind, kills the spirit, and strips one of humanity and, worse, obstructs one from seeing the others' humanity. And as such, it corrupts everything else -- all other systems and structures -- based on or influenced by it as they are.

One of consequences of that we are seeing during these unprecedented times of the coronavirus pandemic.

Open Societies Use Information & Knowledge To Free Their People; Closed Ones to Control

Post published:April 2, 2021
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

How a society uses information and knowledge depends a lot on the kind of society it is. An open and outward looking society uses information and knowledge to free their people, for example. A closed and inward-looking society, on the other hand, utilizes them to control their people. Nepal, being a closed and inward-looking society, expends a lot of effort into controlling their people, starting from when they are children.

Hall of Shame VI: The Lockdown Edition

Post published:November 15, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

The sixth one in the series about Nepal needing a revolution…a revolution of the mind.
Here’s more of one of many MANY reasons why from during the lockdown to contain the coronavirus.

Hall of Shame V

Post published:June 24, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

The fifth one in the series about Nepal needing a revolution…a revolution of the mind.
Here’s more of one of many MANY reasons why.

The Elephant in The Room

Post published:February 20, 2019
Post category:Social Justice

Nepali society struggles to make social progress for a number of different reasons. One of the reasons is that we have a number of social stigmas and many subjects and issues are taboo. In other words, most Nepalis live in denial of many issues plaguing the society. Here are a number of those stigmas and taboo subjects.

The first step to addressing them is to admit to the fact that they are issues. Then we can have honest conversations and discourses about them and find solutions for them.