The Elephant in The Room

Post published:February 20, 2019
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:6 mins read

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.

The Price

Post published:January 29, 2019
Post category:My Personal Stories
Reading time:8 mins read

In Nepal, you pay a price if you, as someone Nepali society considers to not be sufficiently meritorious, comment on the issues the society suffers from or holds up a mirror.

Hall of Shame IV

Post published:January 27, 2019
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:6 mins read

The fourth one in the series about Nepal needing a revolution…a revolution of the mind.
Here’s more of one of many MANY reasons why.

#LifeEh: Oh, The Irony!

Post published:January 13, 2019
Post category:My Personal Stories
Reading time:4 mins read

One of the many issues I identified growing up in Nepal, which I believed would be the source of many unwarranted struggles to make something of myself, had been my severe lack of social capital. So, I worked really hard to escape from the country. Succeeding in doing so and spending most of my adult life abroad, I practically ensured I would have even less social capital when I finally returned home! #LifeEh!

16 Days of Activism Against GBV Campaign: A Potential Squashed

Post published:December 4, 2018
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:4 mins read

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!