Dr. Ambedkar: Who and What Can Bring the Caste System Down, and How

Post published:February 16, 2020
Post category:Social Justice

Dr. Ambedkar argues that reason and religion (Hinduism) will not help break down the caste system. Furthermore, that the Untouchables cannot hope for the high castes and the privileged classes to fight alongside them to help break down the system, forget about going on a crusade themselves to break it down. Dr. Ambedkar argues that the Untouchables, instead, should strive for education and spread of knowledge, and for power to break the hold the system has on them and holding them back from realizing their true human potential.

Unleashing Nepal: Bandhs…A Waste of Youth

Post published:December 5, 2018
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

A brief history of the tradition of bandh (shut downs) in the country and how this tool employed by everyone from political parties to trade unions to even disgruntled families, along with the politicization of education, have robbed many youths of their potential. The youths, invariably, were always the ones mobilized to enforce them!

Unleashing Nepal: The Power of Education

Post published:August 10, 2018
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

All about the ills of the education system we have in Nepal and how it can be improved to serve the population and the country.

Unleashing Nepal: Private Institutions, Foreign Education And Preference for Paper Degrees

Post published:July 14, 2018
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

Short history of the way the education system evolved with the introduction of private schools and even a private University from after 1980. Sadly, education was NOT valued as a means to acquire knowledge and skills, but for the paper degrees. Besides, the institutions themselves struggled to provide quality education -- many imparted no more than just the most basic of skills, that of memorization and regurgitation -- as they mostly functioned as for-profit businesses.

Unleashing Nepal: Education Mishap

Post published:July 7, 2018
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting

These extracts from Unleashing Nepal describe how, through education, the Rana Regime and the Shah autocrats furthered their ethnic and nationalistic agenda, enabling the social, political, and economic advancement of the hill so-called high caste Hindus (Khas Aryas) while oppressing -- and hindering the advancement of -- the others.

Unleashing Nepal: The History of Rent-seeking Mentality

Post published:March 19, 2018
Post category:Social Justice

This section from Unleashing Nepal describes how the Birta and Jagir systems implemented by Prithvi Narayan Shah created cultural practices and values and shaped some of the attitudes of the upper caste males of the Brahmin, Chhettri and some Newar castes, which, still prevalent in one form or another, has been and continues to also be an impediment to social, economic and political progress. (Another consequence of the systems were to impoverish and marginalize the indigenous population of the country.)