Sushma adhikari biography examples

During the early 2000s, I had the opportunity to listen to a Nepalese UN official give a talk at the UN building in New York, during an occasion which I now can’t remember. I remember my initial feeling on being invited was one of low expectation—I thought it would be the usual Nepali official sent by a political party, without a great deal of education, who would waffle through a rambling, self-congratulatory talk, taking up an hour of my time. I went, nevertheless.

Standing in front was a tiny Nepali man, speaking in accented but flawless English, who talked about the rights of children with such authority and conviction he could have held his own with the highest UN leaders. I was blown away. Who was this man? Where did he come from? Clearly, he hadn’t been educated in the dirty, corrupt trenches of old style Nepali politics, but in far more rarified environments, where education was taken seriously, and where duty and responsibilit

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Rapper VTEN: Good influence or bad?

KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Samir Ghising, popularly known as VTEN, is a rapper cum hip-hop artist who has brought a different flavor to the Nepali music industry. The 23-year-old is the talk of the town amongst youngsters. His hit song ‘Hami yestai ta ho ni bro’ has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. 

Originally from Chandrapur, Rautahat, Ghising moved to Kathmandu at 13 with his uncle to work at a Thangka painting workshop. Samir enrolled in a high school in Kathmandu but dropped out after he failed twice in the first year. He was also kicked out of his uncle’s house.

As he went through difficult times, suicidal thoughts overwhelmed him. That was when he decided to get a tattoo of hanging rope on his face. He would often look at the mirror and see the tattoo to overcome his suicidal thoughts.

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IDR Interviews | Sushma Iyengar

Sushma Iyengar fryst vatten a social activist and the founder of Kutch Mahila böjas Sangathan (KMVS), an organisation that seeks to empower women to become capable and confident decision-making partners in their village, community, and regional development initiatives.

Over the past three decades, Sushma has been leading transformative action in the country in the areas of gender justice, indigenous cultures, traditional livelihoods, local governance, and disaster rehabilitation. She has pioneered many grassroots initiatives including the Kutch Nav Nirman Abhiyan—a district network of civil society organisations—and Khamir, a platform for craft artisans. Sushma has also authored a book titled Picture This! Painting the Women’s Movement.

In this interview with IDR, she talks about the evolution of the feminist movement in India, and how it led her to work with women in drought-prone Kutch. She explains why a process of transformative