17th April 2023, 9:00 pm I receive a message “Ma’am, I got the job. I got the job as a teacher and now will be leaving for Sindhupalchowk this Saturday”. This message turned out to be the best 10th-year anniversary gift to me. And she gave me the gift without…

I had always wanted to fall in love. To fall in love with self, and ironically to deeply be in love with someone other than self too. To fall in love with the other being with whom I could just be there, listen to for hours, laugh at some random…

With beautiful mushy clouds, clear sky, and well-managed traffic DC have a lot to offer in terms of city management. At least for someone like me who lives in Kathmandu. Well-furnished rooms, huge libraries, most expensive articles- you just hit a button and ask someone in a library to make…

The last few weeks have gone extremely crazy from visiting the White House Garden to presenting my research paper at Virginia Tech University. Since life has been moving from one event to the other, I haven’t actually been able to sit back, reflect, and then process. There’s another feeling of…

8:30 am Monday (October 10, 2022) Living away from your family after getting married is a different kind of hustle. This is something that I get to be made aware of on multiple occasions one way or the other. As someone who had been living her independent life for the…

8:30 am Wednesday(October 5, 2022) It is a unique experience to be a teacher from one part of the globe (that can only be noticed by mindfully pointing out that dot on the globe) and sitting in a room or a virtual group that keeps on highlighting the significance of…

Let me talk a little bit about this emotion of shame! Oh! Sorry ‘SEX’! Over the last couple of years, I have been targeted multiple times for how openly I talk about sex. As a South Asian woman, that too a Nepali married woman, sex should be something that I…

14 First Experiences in 14 Days (Fellowship Reflection Series #12 and #13) 8:30 am Wednesday(September 28, 2022) Coming back to this desk feels different, a little more exciting since Anthony is also back from Kenya. In these two weeks, a lot of things happened one after another and I needed…

12:10 am Monday (September 12, 2022) Having been living for the last 13 years independently, I don’t usually hesitate to go to a new place and explore and even live in solitude. Also, from making solo trips to several cities and countries to traveling with my husband, mostly apart from…