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Read more about the article Creative Secondary School: When Dreams Take Flight…

Creative Secondary School: When Dreams Take Flight…

  • Post published:December 17, 2014
  • Post category:Presentations & Speeches
  • Reading time:2 mins read

How and why I achieved academic, personal and professional success in spite of the circumstances and context of my birth, lessons I have learned, why I do what I do back in Nepal, and what I hope students like them do with, and in, their lives.

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Read more about the article ICHK: When Dreams Take Flight…

ICHK: When Dreams Take Flight…

  • Post published:December 15, 2014
  • Post category:Presentations & Speeches
  • Reading time:2 mins read

About life, following dreams, the beauty and power of humanity, and what I am doing with my life to make it meaningful.

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Read more about the article UWC…To Learn About the World and People

UWC…To Learn About the World and People

  • Post published:September 28, 2014
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/United World College (UWC) Movement
  • Reading time:4 mins read

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.

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Read more about the article We’re COMMITTED: Education is Freedom

We’re COMMITTED: Education is Freedom

  • Post published:January 5, 2014
  • Post category:Projects
  • Reading time:5 mins read

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.

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Read more about the article My Potholed Road to UWC

My Potholed Road to UWC

  • Post published:December 5, 2013
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/United World College (UWC) Movement
  • Reading time:7 mins read

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.

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Read more about the article Qatar…From Afar: Irony of Ironies

Qatar…From Afar: Irony of Ironies

  • Post published:September 13, 2013
  • Post category:Qatar/Qatar Academy
  • Reading time:10 mins read

What I thought of, and expected from, Muslims and Arabs in general before I arrived in Qatar, and what I actually discovered about who, what and how they are as a people, based on how they treated me (and other Asians).

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Read more about the article Education in Nepal: How I Got In and Out

Education in Nepal: How I Got In and Out

  • Post published:March 12, 2013
  • Post category:My Personal Stories/Nepal Education & Parenting
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Just a basic education had been in the cards! But determined to get more, much much more than that which I was told I was "entitled" to, I would have an incredible academic career!

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