Corner with a Full View

To not be skipped by any male, while hands are being shaken. My original, full article whose edited version appears in the Kathmandu Post of September 21, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let me begin this rant by recalling a small incidence that took place around this time last year. A meme was posted by Facebook page of Mahabir Pun, whose caption read "girls have tension about Teej and dar, boys have tension about the ticket price of Nepal vs Afghanistan game". It was the time of Teej and also Nepal Cricket Team was playing in home ground against Afghanistan. If it was pages like 9GAG or others posting such stuff, I would not have cared. But coming from a page of such an esteemed personality who I diligently follow, I cannot even begin to say how offensive and inappropriate I found this post to be. I, along with a few other "outrageous girls" promptly commented on it and th...

There are some good and some bad in being left out of the development intersection. You know how it is, the places that never fall into any intersection. The places that escape attention, and lie there all by themselves trapped in time, unheard of for better or worse. There are such places, such pockets in Khotang and Solukhumbu of Eastern Nepal. Those areas which are far from headquarters of both districts or are very much inland from the ever expanding road networks. Those which are neither the High Mountains nor have prominence to any trade route from far and wide. "Hinterland", in sociological jargon. In March I trekked and spent a few nights in this very area during extreme weather. Snow, fog and slippery path through steep slopes made my traverse really dangerous. But I am not complaining. What I went through for a few days, the locales here live that life every day, every month, all their life. There are small villages interspersed like tiny dots throughout th...