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…
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…