Ever Wondered Why We Have Such Warped Structures in Nepal? Here’s Part of The History Responsible For That

Post published:January 31, 2020
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:11 min(s) read

Nepali social, economic, and political structures are completely warped. The hill high caste Hindu men are disproportionately highly represented in pretty much every body of note. How did that happen? Here's a little bit of history about that and more.

Caste Hierarchy, False-equivalence Argument, and Mount Everest

Post published:January 23, 2020
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:12 min(s) read

When a hill high caste Hindu counters a member of another caste describing the challenges in their lives because of the caste they are born into by saying that they too struggle and have had to work hard to get as far as they have gotten in life, they are basically making a false-equivalence argument. What is a false-equivalence argument anyway? I go into the details by using an analogy -- that of climbing Mount Everest.

Railing Against Structural Inequality Does Not Mean Hatred For Khas-Aryas

Post published:November 22, 2018
Post category:My Personal Stories
Reading time:6 min(s) read

When the level and quality of education is abysmally poor, sizeable portion of the population view others (and the world) through very narrow lenses. Here's an example of how some in Nepal have done just that.

Miss Nepal: “Be Beautiful…Be The Change”

Post published:April 11, 2018
Post category:Kathmandu, Mustang & Nepal / Social Justice
Reading time:19 min(s) read

Why do most of the contestants and winners of Miss Nepal beauty pageant belong to BCN (Bahun Chhetri Newar) trio of ethnicities?
My tentative answer is that they are the most privileged groups in the country, and the pageant is of the BCN, by the BCN, for the BCN!

Nepali People by Job Applications

Post published:September 18, 2017
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:2 min(s) read

COMMITTED, in the process of expanding, recently advertised fourteen different positions. Reproduced in this blog post are charts of the applications by age, gender, caste etc.

From a White American Friend to Her Fellow White Americans on Addressing Racism

Post published:August 18, 2017
Post category:Social Justice
Reading time:7 min(s) read

A reproduction of a really challenging and resourceful Facebook post by a White American friend of mine for White Americans about being White and addressing racism. I hope you find this as useful as I have, in spite of NOT being white, nor American.