Dimensions of Media Studies
…. Media studies adopts at least two semantic dimensions. The first continues the traditional notion of critical scholarship focusing on the study of form and effects of media. This still…
BRAHMAPUTRAKA CHHEUCHHAU: A Saga of Nepali Migrants’ Identity Crisis
Lil Bahadur Chhetri’s novel Brahmaputraka Chheuchhau is the story of Nepalis in Assam. More than that, it is a history of Nepalis’ own failure to build identity. Contemporary scholars like…
Answering students
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.…
Directly from the Writing Classroom!
As you set out to write: Switch from one platform to another. Make your preliminary notes and outline in a piece of paper. This is the productive phase. Expand your…
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…