While I don’t usually use words like peaceful to refer to Birganj, I must say that last night’s triade of bombings in my hometown came as a surprise. Two of the bombs were at offices to the north of Birganj proper.
One, however, was located not far from Shripur.
I can’t remember when exactly, but last [...]
Public transportation is the best way to meet people. It’s also the near equivalent of putting a revolver in your mouth with a hundred chambers and one bullet and playing Russian roulette; I am not dead.
On my last bus trip to Kathmandu I saw one head-on collision, two buses that had fallen off the side [...]
I finished up my last week at school by giving an exam. Something like a pop quiz, except it involved excessive and indiscreet cheating by the students.
What do you do when you’re in a classroom the size of a bedroom with 60 students sitting in benches at tables that even the strictest Puritan would deem [...]
