Speech from NELTA conference
Mr. Chairman, Dignitaries in the dais, dignitaries in the audience. I am one of those viruses Awashthi sir mentioned – the Kathmandu University virus, living about 40 kilometers away from…
“The Office in Me?”
When I updated my status in facebook mentioning the start of winter holidays, I received a number of congratulations, best wishes and queries. Congratulations from some friends who knew that…
Who says emails are just emails
I sometimes write fairly long emails, especially when I know that people other side read them. Some of my lovable writings have emanated from the spirit of initiating or continuing…
A Poetic Jugalbandi
My friend Prakash Thapa has recently responded to my poem “I wait for a Rescuer” through his facebook notes. I have posted the response here. Our ‘facebook critics’ call it…
Were these my rhetorics?
The following are some of the lines I have loved as my best creations. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. A bit of sensibility from the phone owners, yes, only the readiness to keep the…
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…