Why teachers are important

Published On: June 22, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Usha Pokharel

Why teachers are important

A teacher’s importance is very well represented by the above doha.  If both God and teacher were standing together, who would you respect first? It asks. Giving due respect to the teacher Kabir says, ‘I would respect the teacher first, who would then show me the way to reach God’. It is a very simple thought, but a very heavy one at that. You might be thinking ‘who are you to tell us about a teacher?’  I agree with you.  It is beyond me to explain the complexities of a guru/ teacher, still this week I felt like writing about the importance of being a teacher.  Now that I have decided to write, I better tell you why teachers are important in our life.

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A forgotten history

Published On: June 22, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Prem Singh Basnyat

A forgotten history

After Dalai Lama fled to India, Chinese security operation started in Tibet in 1971 and some Khampas started to settle down in the adjoining areas of the Himalayan border on the northern region of Nepal. They started to operate anti-China activities from Nepali territory, which was against foreign policy of Nepal. So Nepal launched military operations against Khampas. Many of them were killed, others fled and some surrendered. This episode is known as ‘Khampa Disarming Mission’ in Nepal’s military history.

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Capitalism and Dalits

Published On: June 22, 2019 12:05 AM NPT By: Giri Bahadur Sunar

Capitalism and Dalits

According to Marxism, history is all about the struggle between bourgeois and proletariats, former seeking to enrich themselves, latter fighting for equality. The proletariats, Carl Marx believed, can liberate themselves only by intensifying class struggle to bring the revolutionary transformation in the society. In Hindu system, conflict happens between atheists and theists, Aryans and non-Aryans, feudal lords and landless, the ruler and the ruled, and higher castes and Dalits

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Economic lessons from Everest

Published On: June 20, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Jim O’Neill

Economic lessons from Everest

Beyond specific conditions such as the narrowness of the trail, Everest’s overcrowding problem is not so different from many other economic and social challenges that policymakers confront

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Yoga for health

Published On: June 20, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Dr Aruna Uprety

Yoga for health

Yoga exercises reduce back pain, make spine stronger and flexible and also keep our digestive and reproductive systems healthy

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Perks of going cashless

Published On: June 20, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Biranchi Poudyal

Perks of going cashless

It will be difficult for Nepal to become a cashless economy but it should make an effort

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Killing the constitution

Published On: June 19, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Narayan Manandhar

Killing the constitution

The more Prime Minister Oli wastes time dishing out slogans and false promises, the more he will be pushing the country to the brink

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Thought for forests

Published On: June 19, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Kundhavi Kadiresan

Thought for forests

By 2050, what if we can’t see the forests or the trees? At present rate of exploitation of our forests in Asia and the Pacific, we run that risk

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Dangers of forced merger

Published On: June 19, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Pravesh Rijal

Dangers of forced merger

Moving toward a regulatory driven forced merger will be dangerous and detrimental to stability of Nepal’s banking system

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Corruption and citizens

Published On: June 18, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Bishal Thapa

Corruption and citizens

A lone protester staging a hunger strike against corruption provides an illuminating view on how the absence of individual responsibility in Nepal’s civil society is fuelling corruption

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