Technological Revolution

Time and tide wait for none. I still remember the day when I bought Konica film camera, my happiness knew no bounds. It was in the year 2005 that I went to US and I took lots of pictures with the same camera until I bought a new digital camera. I printed all the pictures and sent them to Nepal for memories. I have photo albums with those printed pictures which give me blissful tour of my life every now and then. Now, we are in a digital era and after digital cameras were introduced in the market, the printing pictures got diminished. I no longer print the pictures.

Random thoughts from a war diary: Ode to a Development Consultant

Random thoughts from a war diary: Ode to a Development Consultant: "Your come with fancy degrees for sure Harvard Kennedy Princeton Wilson Georgetown, Syracuse and Yale You drive in SUVs through ghettos Came..."

I received more than what I gave

I realized that coming home was not that easy once one is used to with where one is living for some years habituated with western developed systems. It was 2007 June when I got back to Nepal from the US which supposed to be the dream country for many. Though I was happy to start off at least with an internship for few months, I really had to struggle for job hunting for few months. Since you live around with people, you can not avoid some of the things which you do not want to talk about. Particularly, while I was getting reverse cultural shock when I just got back from the US and was trying hard to find job, it was not happy thing to be questioned by the people around-when and why did you come back. It penetrates and pierces your mental stability, when someone judges you with what you have earned (in terms of economy) and not what degree you have earned. However, I was happy that I passed through that phase and ended up with an entertaining and life shifting job.

Customer Service

During my one and half month long stay in Nepal, I somehow used wrong pin-code more than 3 times to log in my online bank account (ABN-AMRO) from Nepal. After that my account got blocked which means I could not use my ATM card as well as online account. So, I went to the bank as soon as I got back from Nepal in September first week to unblock my bank account and to have a new pincode (since I forgot it after staying in Nepal for around 45 days. It happens when you have Research Paper (RP) Pressure :))

Half Full or Emply?

Half Full or Half Empty?

"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." – Guiseppe Borghese

"The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too." – Herbert Samuels

"There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them." – Clare Boothe Luce

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

Bhutanese Refugee Family in the Netherlands

Chakra Bahadur Gajmer (51) and his family arrived at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, Netherlands on February 16, 2009. Gajmer family was among the first largest cohort group of refugees who were resettled in the Netherlands by the Dutch government. International Organization for Migration (IOM) arranged tickets and travel documents for them. Gajmer family had been living in Sanischare camp, Morang, as Bhutanese refugees.

How many deaths do we need for Human Rights Attention?

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Human tragedy: A farmer and child in India's 'suicide belt'

How many deaths do we need for Human Rights Attention?

Farmers’ Suicide in India: A perspective through Human Development, Human Right and Human Security

The concepts of Human Development (HD), Human Rights (HR) and Human Security (HS) are gaining broad attention in today’s world after the United Nations (UN) started publishing various reports with major focuses on these issues. UN publishes the yearly Human Development Index (HDI) and HS reports every year and ranks the countries on the basis of socio-economic progress with respect to Human Rights.

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