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.
In Nepal, it seems, some rights -- even when it infringes on the rights of others -- can be asserted especially when you can back it up with violence! In other words, some rights -- granted by the law and constitution of the country -- which you should be able to assert peacefully, you might not assert, or be able to assert, because of the threat of violence against you!
When you have suffered gravely, you view and live life a certain way.
Far from making others suffer or wishing suffering on others, for instance, you don't even wish suffering on those you hold responsible for your own suffering. Knowing what it was like, you want to do everything you can to alleviate the sufferings of others instead.
Our fishermen in Thangpalkot harvest fish from their ponds and we complete the construction of the multipurpose court at Raithane School during our November 17-20, 2014 visit.
A day-by-day account of my dealing with a few government offices in Nepal trying to get an official paper way back in 1999. In other words, this is all about the farce that is the Nepalese bureaucracy.
On the streets of Kathmandu there is just one traffic rule: there are no rules. What rules is horns. Horns rule how, where and when traffic moves! Horns drive Kathmandu traffic. How?