UWC Scholarships, Nepotism and Conflict of Interest
I am most likely swimming against the current here with how I am dealing with a social ill in Nepal but...here it is!
I am most likely swimming against the current here with how I am dealing with a social ill in Nepal but...here it is!
I have come across Nepali men, in person, on social media and elsewhere, who, when discussing gender issues, display a very very remarkable lack of knowledge and understanding of the issues faced by our girls and women. In the process, they display their conceit, their complete ignorance of the patriarchal society we live in and how that benefits and privileges us, men.
This is just one example of that.
How people are in some respects -- and also how power dynamics -- work don't change with time. Should you suffer in some way because of that, hardly any of it is about you AND as such you can't do anything about it really. And that's ok!
Returning to Nepal after twelve days in a Doha, Qatar, jail, I have made a number of interesting discoveries. One of them is the fact that I shouldn't travel to the Gulf at all and the other is that the charges of insulting Islam has, indeed, NOT been dropped.
In a country where lawmakers are also some of the main lawbreakers, how much can you trust them to do the right thing for the country?
In a country where the connected and the powerful make sure that the law applies only to the poor, how can we trust what the government says?
A reproduction of the March 12 (1998) Kantipur FM episode of the Malboro Music Network program in which I talked about an issue surrounding wild life contraband.