खै, जागिर पो होला कि नहोला
दुईहजार सन्ताउन्न साल साउनको कुरा — “हाउ मालदाइ, केयुमा भ्याकेन्सी खुल्या’ छ है। राम्रो संस्था भन्छन्, कि ट्राइ मार्ने हो”? हातको पत्रिका देखाउँदै मेरो भूतपूर्व रूमपार्टनरले सुनायो। रजिष्ट्रारको नाममा जारी…
Classroom Tidbits
Passion and Obsession Passion is a natural instinct for something, which generally stays permanent. For instance, your love for music, art, flowers, traveling or entertainment does not die. Obsession is…
Sweet Seventeen
August 11, 2000 (2057-04-27) “A tiring journey to Kathmandu University along with Prem – to apply for the post of a teaching assistant. Useless it was! They want one to…
Idols and Ironies
For a few days ahead, there will be a lot of writings on Prashant Tamang’s victory of the “Indian Idol” title. People will not be tired of talking about the…
Leadership Vicissitudes
Communication scholar Herbert W. Simons postulates that movement-time politics is influenced by the requirements leaders set, the problems they face and the strategies they apply to meet the requirements and…
The Probing Pupils
As learners, we spend most of our lives answering others’ questions and least through finding the answers to our own. As teachers, we reiterate to our students most of the…
Answering Students-I
One of my recent activities with students has been to communicate in emails. I assigned one student from each class to send me three questions, and answered them in detail.…
Answering the Students-II
From a class three years ago. Outcomes of an interactive email assignment. Not irrelevant yet. In what quality was Yudhisthira different from his brothers? Yudhisthira could wait/pause to study the…
Answering Students-III
As a part of learning how to write inquiry emails, I ask students to ask me questions. They can ask me whatever they would like to know about the course…
Contamination Syndrome
The Kathmandu Post 15 May 2008 As soon as CPN (Maoist) showed signs of victory in the vote counting after CA elections, many political chameleons were set to change their…
Reflections on Intellectuals
The Kathmandu Post 23 August 2007 Nepal is undergoing one of the most volatile times of its history. Common citizens would see the time in terms of gradual dilapidation of…