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…
स-साना अनुभूतिहरू
म एउटा शिक्षक हुँ। सिक्नु सिकाउनु मेरो जीवनको मूल लक्ष्य बनेको छ। त्यसैले म आफ्नो र अरूको भोगाइबाट सिक्तै जीवनका मान्यताहरू स्थापित गर्दै जानुपर्छ भन्ने विश्वास राख्छु। मलाई आफू जन्मे…
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…
Tiny Epiphanies
I am barely inspired to travel with a high frequency though my mind often ‘wanders across continents’ trying to endorse my desire to confirm that humans are fundamentally same everywhere.…
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…
Literacy, school and stories…
My literacy began with my being able to speak, and when what people said began to make sense to me. And it began with listening verses from Mahabharata and Ramayana.…