“The local people should improve the quality of their lives.” […] “But let them not wear ties”

Post published:November 3, 2015
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal

Our political leaders and the Kathmandu elite have always been arrogant, self-righteous and patronizing when it came to the way they treat marginalized Nepalese.

Here's an example of that going all the way back to the early nineties when they opened and served up Mustang district as consumer products to trekkers and travellers.

Is it any wonder they are treating the people in the southern plains as they are now?!

NYC: Education for Freedom

Post published:April 16, 2015
Post category:Presentations & Speeches

Education is for freedom: freedom from the constraints of having to think, having to subscribe to attitudes and having to behave in ways dictated by the culture and society one is born into (whether in Nepal or elsewhere); freedom from the socioeconomic shackles one is born into if born into a low socioeconomic context in countries like Nepal and others.

Shooting For Glory

Post published:January 28, 2015
Post category:General

All might be fair in love and war but when it comes to wild life conservation and discoveries...I don't think so!

Shatin College: What Makes a Successful Life

Post published:December 26, 2014
Post category:Presentations & Speeches

What makes for a successful life is one lived following ones dreams, one lived in ones own terms, instead of one lived following others.

LPC UWC: When Dreams Take Flight…

Post published:December 25, 2014
Post category:Presentations & Speeches United World College (UWC) Movement

The power and privilege of education, the power of compassion & humanity, and how what I am doing now is in line with the UWC mission and values of international understanding and world peace.

Shatin College: When Dreams Take Flight…

Post published:December 23, 2014
Post category:Presentations & Speeches

How and why I achieved academic, personal and professional success in spite of the circumstances and context of my birth, lessons I have learned, why I do what I do back in Nepal, and what I hope students like them do with, and in, their lives.