If you are struggling with mental health issues—especially when those issues are fueled by the bleakness of the world around you—one coping mechanism is to look for the funny side of things. Doing so allows you to laugh when you might otherwise spend all your time crying.
This is an account of a coping mechanism I adopted while in Nepal and how, in the process, I ended up documenting the shocking level of patriarchy and sexism that exists there.
An incompetent and negligent government can compromise not just the physical safety and security of the population, but now, in the twenty-first century, the century of data, personal data can also be compromised by them.
This post focuses on how the Election Commission of Nepal has not only compromised the personal details of MILLIONS of citizens in the run up to the 2022 elections but continues to do so even now in the run up to the 2026 elections.
If you value time and human life, then you would respect the time of another human being.
"Nepali Time," a famous local concept, to those who value time and life, is a sign of disrespect. That is: disrespecting a person's time is disrespecting them, and a persistent pattern suggests you don't sufficiently value their life.
In order for Nepal to make progress, the country must mass educate the population so that they learn to value time considerably more and therefore the lives of others.
On Sept. 8 2025, Generation Zers of Nepal poured out into the streets protesting against corruption among other things. The protests resulted in toppling the Government of Nepal in less than forty-eight hours. Here's a very detailed and comprehensive AI-generated report on the subject.
Having grown up in Nepal, I know why Nepalis take pride in all the things they do and celebrate all the different things they do. But, returning to Nepal after almost twenty-five years abroad, most of my adult life, I discovered how much all of those things were holding the society and country back and how urgently Nepalis need to rise above them all.
This is a letter to my fellow Nepalis about all the many things we as a people must rise above now and why.
Nepali society is highly dysfunctional, hollow, and deeply flawed. There are many reasons behind that.
One is that Nepalis struggle greatly to empathize with fellow Nepalis even while they take pride in being born in the same country as the historical Buddha.
Another is that accountability for one's words and actions are virtually nonexistent. The reason? The level of education of the population is low, and even that education is of poor quality, the products of which are people unable to think and reason logically.
