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…
On Discourse of Depoliticization
The Kathmandu Post 6 July 2007 A recent subject of discourse among Nepali intelligentsia has been the issue of the politicization of universities. This issue gained notoriety when the eight-party…
Highway Politics
Nepali politics has taken a new direction with many political changes showing up day by day. However, at least one aspect of politics remains stagnant: the use of highways in…
Cellphone and Sensibility
Cellphones are inevitable private possessions these days. Apart from being the convenient means of contact, they frequently make an equally inconvenient public presence. For example, they are nuisances to serious…
Exam Ironies
The whole year is an exam period these days. Whatever the board or university conducting the exams, students are seen panicking for next day’s papers. Naturally, there is hardly any…
Need for Coordination
Few years ago an American lady working as a volunteer in Kathmandu University’s Department of English commented with delight that she found the Nepalese students very different from those of…
Kathmandu University and the Locality
Kathmandu University (KU) has a good name in Nepal and a respectable place in Kavre district. Many people here take it as a landmark establishment and a destination for higher…
Reminiscing SAUFEST-I
Association of Indian Universities (AIU), with support of University of Jammu (JU), organized the first South Asian Universities Youth Festival (SAUFEST) from February 12 to 16, 2006 in Jammu. AIU…
Not Another Subhadra
Published in The Kathmandu PostHow many of us have seen a lady arrange the marriage of her husband in the name of bringing more happiness in the family? We have…