Sushma Joshi Kathmandu Post, JUN 19 - A few days ago, I was on my way to work when all of a sudden, out of the window of the shuttle van, I saw what appeared to be thousands of young people lining up and around Thapathali, all the way towards the Darshrath Rangashala. The line was composed of young people in their twenties and thirties. In another country (India maybe) these folks could be mistaken to be lining up for the exams for the Indian Institute of Technology. In America, I’ve seen young people like these lining up to enter a hall to see Orhan Pamuk talk at a literature festival. But in Nepal, sadly and devastatingly, our best and brightest were lining up not to enter any institution of higher learning or to listen to some Nobel Prize winning writer. Our best and brightest — who should be staffing our schools and hospitals, who should be running local councils and governments, who should be working in small industry — all these folks were hoping for the chance to go to Korea. T...
The civil wars of the twenty-first century: Sushma Joshi's slightly twisted perspective of the universe.