My World

The small city of Bandipur is tucked between the mountains, 148.4 km away from Kathmandu, on the way to Pokhara. What makes this city so special? Well, you’ll have to visit yourself to figure it out. Pull yourself together and get ready because I’m about to tell you how to spend an amazing day here. Start your day with watching the sunrise from Tundikhel, it displays the beautiful range of Himalayas.  After you take in the morning freshness and the scenery, stroll around the Bandipur Bazar. It gives me a European vibe, what with the cafes and restaurants and tables out there on the street. This is definitely the best part of visiting Bandipur.  Grab a cup of tea and these big ass doughnuts while you’re there and I promise you: they are worth it. Take a short hike to the Thani Maai temple uphill from the Bandipur Bazar right beside the Bazar entrance. It should be about 35-40 minutes. This short walk will get you pumped up; and oh did I tell you ab...

I know, I know: I’ll say what you’re thinking for you. I am posting about not using phone on a social media which requires you to view this through your phone. What a hypocrite I am, aren’t I? But hear me out, will you? The smartphone is perhaps the technology that has skyrocketed faster than anything in the past decade. Making our life easier, all in one, safer and what not: but also making us distant. Closer to people across the world: yes. Distant to people right beside us: definitely. We are so much used to our phone, it fits in our hand like anything; the first thing we glance at when we wake up in the morning, the last thing we look before we drift off to the land of dreams. I do it too. (Raises hand awkwardly) Guilty! But since when has engaging in our phone or checking on social media become more important than talking to the person right in front of us? It’s become an addiction hasn’t it? Restaurants offering free Wi-Fi for the same reasons; so much so that a...

You’re thinking this is a love story, aren’t you? What with the title and everything? Well, let me assure you: it is not. This is not a story about love. It is a story about friendship; about two best friends. Like love promises; friendship is also promised to be forever, right? Perhaps even stronger. Let us start from when these two best friends met. Wait……. I can’t seem to remember when. Ummmmmmm (scratches chin) What? Don’t judge me. I do not exactly have the best memory do I? Never mind, I bet these two do not remember themselves: the time they met or the moment; they had been friends that long. For years and years; they had been together through everything. I mean, literally everything. They grew up side by side, exchanged clothes, studied together, played together; if you did not find one of them at their house, you just knew she would be at her best friend’s. And it was this friendship that ended the long tiff between their families. Seriously, the tiff b...

I would like to start off by saying that I do not mean to offend anyone, and should anyone feel hurt by my words, I would like to apologize beforehand. Lately, I have been seeing a lot of chaos on social media, the attention and the discussion of two major situations in the nation: the reigning Miss Nepal World, Shrinkhala Khatiwada in the Miss World event and the murder case of Nirmala Pant. These are two independent situations but what baffles me is how one is overpowering the other or rather how people take it as one situation overpowering the other. Are the two situations being compared and why? There has been a mild debate going on regarding the two situations by not all, but some people. People have gone as far as to write what good would a woman winning in the Miss World mean to a country where another woman has not been provided justice. Now, I know the motive behind such words is to bring attention to the latter. Believe me; I have not been living under a rock...