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What is a temple?
Pathibhara, Mukkumglung, Cable Car, and Desires.
Aug 25 • 
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What You Say ≠ What You Want
Cultural logics and why cross-cultural communication is difficult.
Aug 20 • 
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Save the Writers.
Let me preach, okay?
Aug 17 • 
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Iskool is cool.
School and bidhyalaya.
Aug 5 • 
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Hridayendra Bir Bikram Goes to Jumla
And he speaks better English than Nepali!
Aug 3 • 
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July 2025

Budhani: A Book-Review-of-Sorts
I am not a critic.
Jul 31 • 
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May 2025

Kavreli Samdhi🚗🎵🕺
Ke chha khabar? How are you?
May 30 • 
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April 2025

Name your (future?) Nepali baby.
Chandrakala or Sam.
Apr 2 • 
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March 2025

The Battle of the Honorifics
"Should I call you sir or dai?"
Mar 31 • 
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Why Nepali movies will generally suck...
...at least for the next couple of years.
Mar 27 • 
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February 2025

The Economics of Publishing a Book in Nepal
Only the juiciest of secrets and nothing more.
Feb 17 • 
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October 2024

Bringing culture in...
Big thoughts of a small mind.
Oct 22, 2024 • 
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