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…
Thoughts on Identity
Hardly anything bothers human beings so much as the uncertainty about identity. The question of identity proves important in a foreign land. A place is foreign to people not only…
Cosmic Awareness in Laxmi Prasad Devkota
Both Einstein and Devkota defy the adherence to individual gods and idol worship. A sense of atheism may surface in their assertion. However, in the heart of their ideas lies…
Prithvi Narayan Shah and Postcolonial Resistance
The emergence of P. N. Shah can be taken as a timely historical event. His encounter with the British colonizers was one of the early anti-colonial events in the history…
Devkota’s “Apology”: Individual Condition vs. State Policy
For Devkota, the most essential role as a writer is to “maintain a high degree of candour in the expression of personal observations and expressions of opinion” (“Pulling Down” 5),…
Media Discourse: Evolution into Academy
Media studies has now become an eclectic academic discipline with a closer orientation to the areas of humanities and social sciences, though at the same time it calls for adequate…
English Studies: Textual vs. Cultural Approaches
Study of English texts today takes place through two approaches: textual and cultural. The textual approach focuses on the study of a text’s formal features. The cultural approach includes the…
Integrating Asia?
The year 2008 witnessed at least two significant intra-Asia exchange programs. The first was the third South Asian Universities Youth Festival (SAUFEST) hosted in Nepal during 7-11 February by Kathmandu…
Thus I Spake to SAUFEST-III
Chairperson, Dignitaries, Guests, Colleagues and Students. Good Afternoon I have stood on this stage many times appearing to take care of almost everything that took place inside and around this…