Killing Time is a prize winning film about the light of Bhutanese refugees made by Annika Gustafson. Here are some clips: Killing Time tells the unknown story about the Bhutanese refugees. In the beginning of the 1990s, a sixth of the Bhutanese population fled their country due to cultural repression. Eighteen years later, Bhutan is [...]
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 [...]
I stumbled onto a 2007 opinion column on Kantipur Online about returning to Nepal after completing studies abroad and realized that the question of going back or creating a life elsewhere seems increasingly relevant. Things in Nepal seem to be getting worse, it seems to many. For those living and studying abroad, news from friends [...]