Turtles Can Fly?
How, in fifth grade, I began nurturing a near-impossible dream because that had been the only realistic dream!
Suva Intermediate School: Follow Your Dreams…They’ll Take You Places
The following is the video of one of the three presentations I made to students at Suva Intermediate School, where my UWCAD friend Larry used to work. I talk to about my dreams and life and following dreams to classroom full of mostly Hispanic children, many of whom come from lower middle class or lower class families.
PAUTA Students: Follow Your Dreams…They’ll Take You Places
At a presentation to children and families from lower-middle class and lower class in Mexico, I share with them how I followed my dreams and beat the odds to achieve academic and professional success. I share with them how I did it, and to tell them to not lose hope!
NYC: Education for Freedom
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.
UWC…To Learn About the World and People
I applied for a UWC scholarship because I had "a strong desire to learn more about the world and the people who live on it" and to get a much better education.
Nepal Education: SLC…Is No TLC
When a high achieving student from a private school is not assured of the results expected in SLC, what faith can one have on the examination?
“To Be An Engineer”
My "Senior Biography" entry in the 1986 Jumbo Issue of the Godavarian, our secondary school magazine. It details what I wanted to be and my recollections of the 9 years at St. Xavier's school.
Social Justice: Marked From Birth
Details of the discrimination I faced in Nepal, what I do, and why I do what I do for those who suffer even more discrimination!
We’re COMMITTED: Education is Freedom
At the ticketed dinner and show the evening of January 3, 2014 at Capital Grill, as the face of "We're COMMITTED" awareness and fundraising campaign, I gave a short speech describing the reasons behind our campaign.
My Potholed Road to UWC
People and luck intervened in my life a number of times. One of those times luck intervened, I got to go to the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy for two years. It's to provide that kind of intervention to deserving children that I have returned to Nepal.