I remember where I was last Tihar, a year ago. A year ago? A year ago I’d gone to Kathmandu to hang out at the Spice deraa, my old co-owned flat in Kathmandu, with some of the folks there.
Pardon me while I wax nostalgic, but a year ago I was living in a different house [...]
After the end of the ceasefire between the Maoists and the government, the Maoists called for a three-day bandha across Nepal.
All shops, offices, and schools are to close and all public transportation is to halt during a bandha.
Bandhas in Birganj are typically not observed and most shops remain open; however, most bus services pause since [...]
For the past two weeks I’ve started becoming rather familiar with the underground world of primary schools in Birganj.
For the next year I’ll be working with primary English teachers, helping them to develop their teaching and English skills. At the moment this requires lots of visits to my cluster of schools, roughly 26 in the [...]
