Beyond the Book: Trading Activism for Isolation to Save My Own Life

Post published:October 24, 2025
Post category:Qatar Qatar Academy
Reading time:8 mins read

In addition to inflicting emotional, mental, and intellectual pain and suffering, traumatic experiences change and transform you, whether you want it or not. Consequently, you live and view life in ways that you didn't in the past and in ways others around you don't. Initially, you may not even be aware of it. Coming to terms with and reconciling this change takes deliberate steps and actions.

I made it through a period of years of emotional and intellectual turmoil following a traumatic experience because I recognized and understood a lot of it, and, more crucially, I knew the steps to take.

I share the details in this blog post with the hope that it might help someone else.

From Trauma to Growth: Why Nepali Culture MUST Prioritize the Emotional Lives of Children

Post published:October 12, 2025
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:10 mins read

Traditional Nepalis' belief that children should be spoken to, not listened to, is highly detrimental. It has promoted a culture--at home, school, and in society--that fails to cater to the emotional needs of children, raising emotionally stunted and immature adults, especially the males who, more likely than not, use verbal, emotional and physical violence to communicate.

Solution is to respect children, abandon, our punitive culture, impart critical thinking skills among others.

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Only in Nepal: Forget Acknowledge an Issue, Deny Its Existence, Make Talking About It Taboo, AND Associate Stigma With It

Post published:October 18, 2024
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting Social Justice
Reading time:12 mins read

It's virtually impossible to address a social ill without the society first acknowledging it for what it is. When the education system does NOT do that, what chance is there at all of there even being a discourse about it, forget take steps to address it?! That is the situation with the caste system in Nepal.

Something Really Strange and Curious About the Nepali People…as Revealed by Census Data

Post published:February 27, 2023
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal
Reading time:10 mins read

The pattern in Nepal's population distribution by single year age, whether one from 1961 or 2011, is peculiar! They have spikes and there's a pattern to them--two too! So the question is why?

Of course, such patterned spikes in age distribution data do NOT generally exist because there's NO reason to!

Read more about the article We have a Competition in Nepal…A Competition Among Educators to Give Their Academic Institution The MOST Ridiculous Name

We have a Competition in Nepal…A Competition Among Educators to Give Their Academic Institution The MOST Ridiculous Name

Post published:January 28, 2023
Post category:Nepal Education & Parenting
Reading time:8 mins read

From 1990 onwards, we've has a competition in Nepal...a competition among educators to give their academic institution the MOST ridiculous and/or absurd name. I know because, noticing it, I did a write-up on it and even stalked about it in my FM radio program in 1998. So, after three decades, who is winning? All of them...and naturally education is losing out.