Even in a vastly simplified form, a discussion of Nepal’s caste system is almost meaninglessly dense for a big-picture guy such as myself. Nominally outlawed before I was born, there nevertheless persists a deep and socially meaningful set of caste divisions in society here.
One of the Little Sisters is of an Untouchable caste. Not entirely coincidentally, [...]
Yesterday we got the chance to enter the classrooms to take still and moving pictures of the LSF girls at Takshashila Academy, an up and coming school in Kathmandu. It also houses the offices of LSF and it where we meet with Ramesh and Nutan, the LSF staff.
Small. The classrooms were small. Like cramped. Each [...]
The government of Nepal has declared at least a three day ‘holiday’, during which basically nothing will take place. Unless, of course, you count the transition of the government from a 239 year old monarchy to a nominally democratic republic.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) we plan on doing very little in the way of official business. We understand [...]
Rec’d this reassuring email from the Little Sisters Fund’s director, Trevor Patzer, today.
Things look good politically. The Maoists won the
election but they did not win “big enough” to rule
with impunity. Instead, they will have to work with
others in the government to form the majority they
need. This is good. They plan to re-write the
constitution… which will [...]
We lived in Cairo for a couple of years, and this article? Well, it pretty well hits the nail right into the eardrum.
Nope, no idea how the reporter came to refer to noise as a silent enemy. Maybe there was a winky emoticon in the original that some pernicious copyeditor struck?
