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The Anatomy of a Hollow Society: An Audit of Nepal’s Missing Moral Core

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February 16, 2026
Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal, Social Justice

Returning to Nepal in 2013 after spending most of the preceding twenty-five years abroad, I made a few devastating discoveries about Nepali society. One was how hollow and deeply flawed it was. Struggling to recover from major personal issues, I needed to understand the details of this "hollowness" for my own sanity. Starting in late 2020, I began documenting evidence of this decay on X/Twitter. In this post, I share an analysis of those 130 documented instances to demonstrate exactly how and why Nepali society is currently lost in a state of hollow confusion.

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April 7, 2021
Social Justice, Spirituality & Science

What in numbers are producers in an ecosystem to the number of apex predators, casual sexism is to sexual predators in rape culture. How? Read on.

October 29, 2020
Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Nepalis on average are a closed and inward looking people. And because of that, when the proverbial mirror is held in front of them, offended, disappointed, or not liking what is reflected back, they generally shatter the mirror. In this blog post, I document one such example from Twitter.

May 12, 2020
Social Justice

As a child, growing up in Nepal, my ethnicity was a source of shame. Now, as a middle-aged man, I am embarrassed and ashamed by the way us, Nepali men, view and treat our women.

February 20, 2019
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.

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December 4, 2018
Social Justice

Men using their positions of power to thwart women's drive and squash their potential by focusing on her body is a form of violence. This is the story of a young, driven, and talented woman who was a victim of just that!

The Anatomy of a Hollow Society: An Audit of Nepal’s Missing Moral Core

Casual Sexism, Rape Culture, Sexual Predators, Producers, Energy Pyramid, and Apex Predators

Hold up a Mirror to a Closed and Inward-looking People, They’ll Shatter It

Nepali Mansplaining…It’s So Bad, It’s Incredible!

The Elephant in The Room

16 Days of Activism Against GBV Campaign: A Potential Squashed

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