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Casteism, Social Justice November 6, 2018, 2:31 pm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The story of two young Nepali adults in love but struggling with a dilemma that many like them do: they are from different castes and their parents don’t approve of their desire to get married and start a family. But the comments under their story on Facebook, where I found it, fills me with hope! . . . → Read More: Excruciating Dilemma of Young Adult Nepali Couple
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Casteism, Social Justice, Structural Issues August 17, 2016, 2:58 pm
Reading Time: 2 minutes Parts of Professor Thorat’s presentation at the Politics of Dignity and Equity: Dalits in Nepal symposium. He talked about some of the issues faced by Dalits in Nepal, their remedies, including lessons learned from India. . . . → Read More: Social Justice: Politics of Dignity And Equity
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Casteism, Social Justice April 8, 2016, 3:54 pm
Reading Time: 2 minutes A nepalese movie actor makes an interesting discovery about Nepalese society through the acts of a number of different people. . . . → Read More: Nepalese Actor Discovers How People Act…
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Casteism, Social Justice, Structural Issues March 28, 2016, 5:48 pm
Reading Time: 6 minutes A meme, using completely false reasoning, tries to prove that there isn’t any discrimination in Nepal. But, ironically, in the way the the non-Khas-Aryas are characterised in the meme, the creator ends up outing himself or herself as a bigot! . . . → Read More: “Tell Me, Where is Ethnicity-based Discrimination in Nepal?!”
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Casteism, Nepal Earthquake, Social Justice June 2, 2015, 3:40 pm
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you don’t or cannot display compassion and humanity to those around you at this time of desperate need for just that, then you cannot expect compassion and humanity from others living in far off lands! . . . → Read More: Social Justice: Want Compassion? Show Compassion!
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Casteism, Social Justice February 4, 2015, 2:59 pm
Reading Time: 8 minutes One Dalit’s story of life-long discrimination and humiliation, and struggle for personal recognition for who he is and what he has become through his own efforts lays bare some of the worst aspects of our Caste System. . . . → Read More: Caste Out
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Buddhism & Spirituality, Casteism, Social Justice July 7, 2014, 5:30 pm
Reading Time: 3 minutes The spuriousness of the logic behind the Caste System, which considers birth as an end instead of the beginning that it is, and what can be done to eliminate it. . . . → Read More: Social Justice: Cost of Accident…of Birth
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Casteism, Social Justice March 25, 2014, 1:40 pm
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Your birth as anything (class, caste, race, nationality etc.) or with any trait (skin color etc.) considered to be a characteristic of an inferior human being is not shameful. YOU HAD NO CHOICE IN THAT!
It’s those that view and interpret that as such and make you suffer for it who are shameful: THEY HAVE A CHOICE IN THEIR VIEW OF, THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS AND THEIR TREATMENT OF YOU!
. . . → Read More: Social Justice: Caste Away
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Casteism, My Personal Stories, Social Justice February 3, 2014, 9:00 pm
Reading Time: 7 minutes 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! . . . → Read More: Social Justice: Marked From Birth
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Casteism, Equality, Social Justice December 27, 2013, 9:00 pm
Reading Time: 5 minutes Birth as a low caste, a Dalit, in Nepal means that you are not only expected, but also made, to live in shame and poverty. In an effort to escape from that, they go looking for foreign employment but lacking in funds and education, fall victim to loan sharks and trafficking. . . . → Read More: Social Justice: Social (Media) Status Upgrades
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About me..in short I am a Tibetan-Buddhist, one-time International Chemistry/Science teacher with a Jesuit education in a Hindu country (Nepal), an international education in a catholic country (Italy), a liberal arts education in the bastion of freedom and democracy (the US), with teacher-training down under (Australia), but whose choice of musical instrument is Australian (the Didjeridoo), choice of sports is American (Ultimate Frisbee), choice of dance genre is Latin American (Merengue and Salsa), and yet, still has faith in the permanence and power of change!
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