Addressing a round table discussion organized by the Alliance Francaise Thursday evening in Kathmandu, Nepal’s prominent women activists have stressed on the need of state policies geared towards women empowerment, which would be instrumental in higher women performance. Speaking on the theme of perception of women in the Nepalese society, Ms. Chandni Joshi, who […]
May-29 Tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
According to Siddhartha the Buddha, life comes into existence when mind and matter combine. His meaning was that the interaction of mind and matter produces energy that moves things and people. Nepal’s Sherpas, the original mountain citizens, live at the foothills of the Mount Everest in the North of the country. Their mind frequently interacts […]
The Right Speech and Press Freedom: Guidance by the Buddha
By principle, journalism is public. By practice, journalism today has gone more corporate. This is the crux of the matter for us to meditate on the theme of press freedom. In Nepal, porters ( I am only comparing the figure) earn 10 times than journalists in general. Although there is a debate on whether journalism […]
Workers’ plight in Nepal: Noncoordination between mind and matter
When observers can see ultra-ritualism in celebrating the May Day in the globe over-ruled by non-state money machines, power-maniac corporate media and lustful muscles—the major factors contemporaneously constituting the state character—they would perhaps prefer to question if political parties, especially those labeled as ‘Communist’ are pro-working class forces. The question is far acuter when it […]
Anti-corruption social discourse in Kathmandu
“If you’re not provided services without paying bribes in public offices, you should be prepared for a group intervention there.” This was a remark expressed by Nepal government’s Former Chief Secretary Lila Mani Poudel in a social discourse program organized Saturday by Leo Club of Kathmandu Margadarshan and International Creation and Equality Foundation. While encouraging […]
Achieving gender equality through the Noble Eightfold Path methodology: A Universal Perspective
The ILO (2007, p. 89) states, “Gender refers to the socially constructed differences and relations between males and females. These vary widely among societies and cultures and change over time.” Indeed, gender is a broader concept that also addresses the issues of other sexual minorities socially discriminated or excluded. The 2016 theme for the International […]
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