On the Fifteenth Success
We worked because we wanted to. We worked and it happened — KU’s fifteenth convocation, a big event getting bigger each year. Work for it began about a week ago.…
On the Lost Idea
Sometimes good ideas occur at odd times. For example, I get through my writer’s block while at the restroom. Similar discovery takes place inside a crowded bus, at the barber’s…
Post-festival Ruminations
Two festivals have left me puzzled. As always. Something like being left to decide on several alternatives immediately after graduating from a university. Festivals demand concentration. Other priorities are put…
Chaos, New Session and Old Mentality
Despite series of negotiations, there are chances of chaos at the KU gate again. The talks between KU and the locals have reached a deadlock and partially failed in that…
Acting As Educated
One quality that separates educated people from the uneducated is the degree of tolerance they apply in judging things. The same quality sometimes puts them in disadvantage when they deem…
Fifteen paradoxes
Young: 1. ‘I’ll be right, the world will be right’ — yesterday. 2. ‘I’m always right, but the world is wrong’ — today. 3. ‘I could be right, but the…
Who Snored More?
The SDSI people at Florida made us choose room partners for our trip days. I did not have to bother because Saleem, my Pakistani colleague, put my name with his.…
Some Days off Work
I went to Morang all of a sudden. I had no plan till 3:30 p.m. on April 2. When Apsara called me home for a ‘discussion’, I thought it was…
Teaching New Courses
Teaching new courses is both exciting and challenging. The excitement lies in being free to define syllabus goals and choosing topics and relevant texts. The challenge is that there may…
‘Gorakhalis’ of Gorkha Nagar
The people of Nepali origin living in Gorkha Nagar face a perpetual crisis of identity as a result of their condition of marginalization amidst the vast majority of the natives…