Nepal

Since the Indian general elections in May this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become a phenomenon. Indians appear to be enthralled by the political success of a former tea-seller and the international community intrigued by his phenomenal rise in a country otherwise known for sclerotic political leadership. Both domestically and internationally, he is on the roll. Modi’s rise may weaken the West dominated global order and contribute to the evolution of a more decentralized new order.…

As we first get introduced to Nepal which is the small village that Lakshmi has lived there her whole life with her mother and step father. She was an average thirteen year old kid as in the fact that she did no harm and believed she had a happy life. She goes through her daily life…

Good mentoring, teamwork and some research is what I desire in a program. Once again, I am eagerly looking forward to a career in family medicine and if given a placement, I pledge to bring in all my good qualities, my diverse experiences from China, Nepal and the US, plus a lot of dedication and diligence to your…

Causation of this will inevitably create new challenges faced by women and their young such as, foraging for water and food, plotting them in the middle of another vulnerable situation of being exposed to more violence. Without money, transportation, and connections to resources, women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are left with no way to escape the terrors. When the United States led the invasion to attack and ultimately provide the fatality of Saddam Hussein, this imprisoned many women…

times, although not easy to admit, sad. When I was born, I lived in a small cottage in the country of Nepal. Although I don’t remember much due to my age, Iam told stories by my siblings and parents of my young life. They always told me I was a peaceful baby, they also said everyone around us liked me and I was never home because people would take me and return me when it was dawn. Life in nepal as my parents told me wasn’t pleasant it was downright miserable, there were no work opportunity, all…

She says as soon as a bomb attack took place, it was already updated on twitter and thus how she came to know about the attack. In the blink of an eye, you can get the recent updates regarding any news from twitter. Likewise, when the earthquake hit Nepal on 25th April 2015, we did not know about it until I saw my newsfeed on Facebook. All of my friends’ status was about earthquake. That’s how I came to know about earthquake and started inquiring about my family in…

Patricia McCormick, Lakshmi is the protagonist of the story. She is a fourteen-year-old teenager who lives with her lovely and beloved Ama, her extravagant and irresponsible stepfather and her half younger brother in a small hut in the mountains of Nepal. She spends her days in the village doing household chores, gathering/fetching water and tending her goat, Tali and the small garden of cucumbers for which she is responsible. Her life is hard, because of the mercy of extreme weather from…

Standing at 29,029 feet, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. But in 2015,a deadly event occurred that changed the future of climbing Everest forever. June 25,2015. A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes the capital of Nepal,Kathmandu,Everest being approximately 140 miles east of the epicenter. Avalanches started near base camp on Everest while people ran for cover from the snow,wind,and rocks. 19 died and 120 were injured. The identified people were five climbers and ten…

I come from a male dominant society in Nepal, where gender inequality is one of the obstructing factors for further development. I have been a witness to how men and women are discriminated by society, and how parents are biased against daughters. They send their sons to school to attain education whereas they compel their daughters to perform household chores or assign them as servants in other’s houses. In “Ways of Seeing,” John Berger states, “The way we see things is affected by what we know…

A part of me always knew that I’d have to tell the story of the big quake- and I always hoped that I would never come to that. When it happened, my mind froze. I was sitting on my couch, reading ‘The Kite Runner’. I was trying to prepare myself psychologically to get up and knock some things off the to-do list; picking up my sister from work and before my mother got home to a house that would be hopefully clean. As I was sitting on the couch, flipping through the pages of the book that I had…