Post-Fifty Prattle
Coming to Terms Fifty-two years ago, I landed on this earth. I can imagine the ambiance at home. It must have been before sunrise on a cold December 22 morning;…
by Hem Raj Kafle
Coming to Terms Fifty-two years ago, I landed on this earth. I can imagine the ambiance at home. It must have been before sunrise on a cold December 22 morning;…
My interest in diaspora started in 2006 when I visited Jammu for a program and was led to a small town populated by migrant Nepalis, known as Gorkha Nagar. After…
Dear Maldai I dwell inside you but consider it appropriate to call you daai. I admit that I took form within you only when you learned to scribble and realized…
Generations of my family up to me went cattle grazing in the forest. I can vividly recount some aspects of styles and experiences from my grandfather. I saw him do…
प्रिय रघुजी, मलाई बेलाबेला यस्तो लाग्छ, मौका पर्छ र सम्भव हुन्छ भने सयौं मानिसले गरिरहने कामभन्दा अलग काम गर्न सकियोस्, अलग सोच्न सकियोस्, अलग लेख्न सकियोस्। तर अलग हुने रटान…
At times, concerns about young people’s ‘disappearance’ from Nepal sound barely convincing. The young occasionally show unpredictable public presence. They emerge all of a sudden in fairs, fanfares, and festivities.…
During one of those years I was active in undergraduate teaching, I initiated a ‘self-imposed mandate’ to write on stuffs that required me to ‘self-probe’. This was assigning students of…
I am Hem Raj, a humanist. This is my way of introducing myself – my first name and a phrase that describes me in relation to teaching, my profession. A…
If I were given everything (authority and resources) to develop and implement a model of transformative pedagogy in higher education institutions, what would it be like? The question urges me…
I have always found it very difficult to regard a single person as ‘My Mentor.’ It is plainly so because a good number of people have helped shape my life’s…
आदरणीय हेडसर, मैले विद्यालय छोडेको ३५ वर्ष बितिसक्दा तपाईंलाई आज अचानक पत्र लेख्न मन लाग्यो । प्रारम्भमै एउटा कुरा प्रष्ट्याउन चाहन्छु। पढ्दा यो पत्र नकारात्मक लागे तापनि समग्रमा मैले तपाईंलाई…