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.…
Leaders and Intellectuals
The discourse on the nexus between leaders, intellectuals and political parties often takes an interesting form. The nexus is tricky. In Nepal, the three are embedded with one another so…
On Teaching and Teachers
The Kathmandu Post. 1 August 2007 Celebration of Teachers’ Day every year gets some credit for bringing awareness in the growing minds about the value of teachers. On the day,…
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…