I Failed the First Grade
I failed in grade one. It was in 2035-2036 BS. I failed without understanding what it meant to fail or pass. The failure itself was so ephemeral and so vulnerable…
Stories That Unfold
A tall, sturdy fellow in oddly fitting school uniform enters my office and asks for audience. He says, “If you don’t mind, Mr. Kafle, may I ask you a favor?”…
The ‘Last’ Semester at the ‘Center’: Ramblings on My Pre-Transfer Tenure
This rambling fulfills a promise though fairly late. I had told the BBIS 2020 batch at the close of their Fall 2021 semester that I would scribble my own while…
Treading the Untrodden Trails
I venture to present a perspective on ‘crisis in the humanities’ from a location that may be considered ‘alternative’. I belong to an academic space that enjoys a fairly little…
Five Books That ‘Changed’ My Life
‘Change’ is not my word in the title above, but I agree to use it. Do books change our lives? Someone said it is the reader who has the potential…
From Old Emails: Dialogue with Students
I unearthed the following email conversations with Undergraduate students while exploring what was there in the archive. These are purely content-based questions and answers. Crafted with clear sense of the…
Outrunning the Unknown
During the early days of teaching one gets to come across diversity of odd but exciting moments. In a public school, the challenge comes from below, from the students. Not…
PhD Is More than You Realize
. . . So, perhaps the biggest realization one would get after PhD is of being scrutinized in terms of performance and potentials. This is good. Majority of the PhDs…
प्राज्ञिक संस्कारको विनिर्माण
“माध्यमिक तहको भाइस प्रिन्सिपल छोडेर टिचिङ् असिष्टेण्ट हुन आउनु एक प्रकारको घटुवा भएको परिस्थिति होइन र? तपाईँ यसरी आफूलाई घटाएर विश्वविद्यालय प्रवेश गर्न तयार हुनुहुन्छ?” म विश्वविद्यालय सेवा प्रवेश गर्नलाग्दा…
नपढाएको विद्यार्थीलाई पत्र
हे मैले नपढाएको विद्यार्थी, मलाई थाहा छ, तिमी जताततै छौ। तर तिमीलाई थाहा छैन म यतै कतै छु। शायद तिम्रो र मेरो जम्काभेट भइसक्यो वा भएको छैन। म तिमीलाई चिन्छु,…
मानविकीमा माथापच्चिसी
म मानविकीको शिक्षक हुँ । नेपालको एउटा विश्वविद्यालयमा भाषा, साहित्य र सञ्चारकला पढाउँछु । लगभग १९ वर्षअघि म शिक्षकको रूपमा प्रवेश गरेताका विश्वविद्यालय सानो थियो । यसमा विज्ञान, इन्जिनीयरिङ्ग र…