Vintage from East

“विश्वविद्यालयमा राजनीतिकरणको बहस” गत आश्विन २० गते त्रिभूवन विश्वविद्यालय किर्तिपुरको केन्द्रिय समाजशास्त्र विभागमा अध्यापन गर्ने एक उपप्राध्यापकमाथि मोटरसाईकलमा सवार युवाहरुले मरनासन्न हुने गरि कुटपिट गरे। देशकै सबैभन्दा ठूलो मानिएको विश्वविद्यालयको हाताभित्र केहि बोलेकै वा वादविवाद भएकै कारण उनीमाथि यसरी निर्घात कुटपिट भयो भन्ने कुरा बाहिरबाट हेर्दा अपत्यारिलो लाग्छ। तर, त्यहि…

“Make the Collegial Spaces Safe” In the morning of October 6, Mr. Prem Chalaune, teacher at the Central Department of Sociology, was violently attacked by some youths, allegedly the student leaders or hired by them, within the premises of the Tribhuvan University. He had taught our batch for three semesters…

“Sociology is a martial art, it can come handy.” The Plot Summary Bring that society on the table, and become a surgeon — lacerate its metaphorical body by a scalpel, and see its entrails. This was Prof Chaitanya Mishra’s answer to “what a sociologist ought to do?” when he was…

Speed of a bullet train, that’s how the novel coronavirus is reported of being spread across the world. Recent studies claim the infected sneeze can travel up to eight meters, and it can even survive on air. The coughs and spits pass the pathogens to fomites, practically every object under…

“It’s as if doctors didn’t want to fall ill and die.” The hallmark of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu is his heretic and treacherous demeanor towards his own university system. Prescient of censorious reviews of his Homo Academicus, which aimed to demythologize and debunk the institutional conservatism of the French academic…

दुईजना पश्चिमा लेखकहरु, डब्लु वाई फुलर्टन र सी ई विल्सटनले आफ्नो पुस्तक “न्यू चाइना, अ स्टोरी अफ मोडर्न ट्राभल” मा “चीन अहिले आफ्नो गन्तव्यको घडीमा प्रवेश गरेको कुरालाई सर्बसम्मत मान्नु बाहेक हामीसंग कुनै विकल्प छैन” भनेका छन्। यो पुस्तक सन् १९१० मै प्रकाशित भएको थियो जति बेला चीनमा त्यहाँको अन्तिम…

On April, 2018, we as group of students of anthropology, sociology and population studies were fielded as researchers to five of the eastern districts of Nepal. Our task was to visit the designated Village Development Committees (VDCs) and municipalities, local structures prior to the existing village and town councils, and…

The State and Society in Nepal: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Trends. By Prayag Raj Sharma. Kathmandu: Himal Books, 2004 xv, 353 The State and Society in Nepal: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Trends, henceforth State and Society, is a collection 18 essays corresponding to historical foundations and contemporary trends of Nepalese…

Until recently, newspapers and magazines frequently published boring contents on why Nepal failed, and correspondingly saw the need of a new political force whose program would be apolitical and strictly economic. Naya Shakti Party (New Force) led by former PM Dr. Baburam Bhattarai was founded within the discourse. Political leaders…