Crowdfunding in Nepal It’s awesome to see bands, filmmakers and others using platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo these days in Nepal. Crowdfunding has been all the rage for a while, but this has been the first time I am seeing it here, and it’s great. From Deepak Rauniyar’s ‘Highway’ on Kickstarter (Lex Limbu blogs about [...]
I stumbled across photos of street kids in Kathmandu the other day, taken by Frankie Nazardo. When I first saw it, I was kind of annoyed. As the photos were shown in the article, there was no information given about the kids, no genuine context, no how, no real why…just the typical stuff like poor [...]
I knew it would happen one day, and that day is here, here at last. Soon KFC and Pizza Hut will be serving up crappy food in Nepal, just as they have been everywhere else. Here’s an article on the opening of these chains. The food they serve, like other standard American fast food chains, [...]
In “The Return” I talked about the question I hear many Nepalis asking, about whether to return home to Nepal once they have completed their studies. Its been the most active post on the blog, with many people writing in that they are facing or have faced the same question. Reading the New York Times [...]
In the March 2009 issue of Pology magazine, several of my photographs from Nepal have been featured, including the cover photo. The “From the Editor” section, Neil Schwartz writes, “It is my hope that our stories and pictures will inspire people to get out and see the world. In a time where representations of the [...]
Last week, I wrote about the big question many Nepalis are facing about returning to Nepal. In an interview in VENT Magazine with Sagar Onta, co-founder of a group called Entrepreneurs for Nepal spoke about trying to create a support base for those who have come back and are trying to do something there. “We [...]
Taking a graduate course called, “State, Polity, and Indigeneity in Modern India,” I keep being hammered from within by the question of what development really is, and what it means to normal people. Today, I stumbled upon a video on NYTimes, Building Modern India, about the Mall of India, the country’s biggest mall in the [...]