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I cannot, for the life of me, emphasize enough on how one district singlehandedly is blessed so much naturally! I’m not even kidding. Usually I play out a one day itinerary for the places that I post on my blog, but for makwanpur, you might need a whole day to visit a particular place. So I’m going to make an exception: here’s a list of places you might want to visit in Makwanpur. You can plan a whole day to visit there; that would still make it one day in makwanpur: wink wink. Hey don’t look me like that, it’s not my fault Makwanpur is so awesome with beautiful places that might take you some time. Kulekhani Dam The ever famous Kulekhani dam might take you a few hours to get, depending on the route you take from Kathmandu. The dam is serene to look at, and a pleasure no doubt. If you want, you could go boating there, the surroundings are more than inviting! Markhu If you are all set up for boating, but Kulekhani dam just does not seem to do it for you, only a few miles...

Recently I took a survey: What kind of dreams do you see the most? I must have sent the link to many and I got an overwhelming 201 responses! Thank you to all those who took a moment from their busy lives to fill it. I shall forever be grateful to you. This survey helped to shed light on the matter of dreams: maximum people from the survey chose that they see dreams of being chased and always trying to get away from something or someone. I have always had this dream, it’s not the same dream: no, but it’s always the same kind. And more than twice a month perhaps. I am always running away from something. And apparently, I am not the only one to have such kind of dreams. Many people seem to dream of being chased. It is the most common dream. A whooping 22.4% have chosen so. And it seems the age group (18 – 24) and the age group (25-32) seem to see such dreams more on average. However, it would be unfair, of course, to be biased based on merely on one survey that I conducted. ...

Thousands have come out onto the street to show their disagreement with the guthi bill. And unless you’ve turned a blind eye to the news, you must have come to know about it. Guthis have been around for a long, period of time. They have continued religious and cultural traditional practices, organized those practices well and preserved them well for the coming generations to continue. There are a number of Guthis all around the valley that have been peacefully operating and going about all these years. These guthis have their own lands and properties that they conduct events and festivities in. And that property does not belong to one sole person or head, it belongs to the concerned guthi; to the community. When things have been going about this way for so long, why the issue now to the government? Are the guthis not entitled to the land and property that they own bought on their respective funds? Are the guthis not entitled to raise a voice against the injustice to them? ...

So I recently saw this being shared, and I could not agree more. It brings me no joy to bring up this topic; wait, it actually does bring me joy. Not ‘joy joy’ but you get the point. I can’t help but remember this one assignment during our MBA course. My friend and I were supposed to do a presentation on a system that needs change in Nepal and we literally came to the same conclusion in mere seconds, I kid you not. The system that needs immediate change in Nepal: the transportation system. I’m sure most of you would agree with me, wouldn’t you? I can see hypothetical nods as I write this. It hasn’t been long that I have rode by myself on the roads of Nepal, but I think I can speak on behalf of everyone, be it on any sort of vehicle or on foot. The conditions of the roads of Nepal comes as no surprise to any of us; no, not in the least bit. The recently finished or rather renovated ring road, the underground passage at Kalanki chowk is great, no doubt, but all foreign a...