Pisces. Nepali. Boston and Kathmandu Talk to me abt Social Justice Movements, philanthropy, poetry, pop culture, and theology.
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Neha retweeted
A flood has destroyed the town of Salleri in Nepal's Gorkha district early this morning after days of heavy rainfall. This is Nepal's third devastating flood in 6 weeks, a consequence of human civilization altering the flows of water on earth by heating it up with fossil fuels.
#Elephantsinthefog
Oct 22nd
@BAMfilmBrooklyn.
What a way to celebrate Dashain. Thank you @NewFestNYC!
Not all men. Not all white people. Not all billionaires...but enough for the world to be as unsafe as it is.
Neha retweeted
One of UNGA’s best quotes this year.
Nepal's PM Balen Shah:
We have built a world with flawless logistics for war and broken logistics for food.
And this is not Nepal’s private misfortune. Ask Bangladesh, ask Bhutan, ask India, ask the Maldives, ask Pakistan, ask Sri Lanka, ask any other country in our region and you’ll hear the same account.
Hit by the climate we did not warm and again hit by the wars we did not start.
Neha retweeted
Out now! A new @HimalSouthasian investigation by Erin L Thompson on how Mary Slusser, a renowned US scholar, made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States.
Every investigation we publish at Himal means a lot, but this one especially hits home on a personal level for me as someone who grew up in Kathmandu and has seen the empty pedestals and niches where stolen gods once stood, has seen the communities still hoping that one day their gods will come home.
This story will help bring more of them back, and will add to the ongoing global movement and battle to recover Nepal's stolen heritage.
himalmag.com/mary-slusser-ne…
I live in an empire where people still believe that
4.7 mil dead people < 2.977dead Americans.
Never Forget the death and devastation of the US led wars post 9/11.
Neha retweeted
Shashi Tharoor writes about the Bengal famine of 1942: “While Bengal starved, Britain’s elite enjoyed their juicy steaks and roly-poly pudding. More than being out of touch, it reflected something far worse: a lack of empathy and basic human kindness.”
#Nepal-#India #BhotekoshiFlood #Rasuwa
If our civilisations cannot teach us compassion in moments of catastrophe, what remains of the civilisation we celebrate?
Both Indian and Nepali societies inherit extraordinarily rich civilisations of #empathy, #compassion and #Ahimsa.
Yet, in the face of a #nationaltragedy, we appear to have reduced that profound inheritance to an incomprehensible level of inhumanity. The indifference of political establishments, public institutions and sections of civil society on both sides of the India-Nepal relationship is deeply disturbing and irreconcilable with the values we proudly claim.
When lives are lost and families desperately search for their loved ones, humanity must come before politics, protocol and even diplomacy.
Humanity must come before diplomacy!!
Neha retweeted
a country that reversed deforestation, contributes less than 0.1% of global carbon emissions, and still suffers catastrophic consequences because of its geographical conditions and people still have the audacity to say, oh, it’s not global warming or climate change. fuck you.
There are many things to criticize abt #PriyankaKarki. Her agency on how she wants to use her sexuality is not one of them.
Teachers who protested against this song but have never said anything against the harmful conditions of education system in Nepal, are a problem.
Somebody tell @SunitaDangol_ that *supporting a Zionist state currently responsible for multiple genocides, is a not a good look for her feminist brand.
*fraternizing
Neha retweeted
The billioniares' vision of the world is a vision without humanity.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Jeff Bezos did not say human water consumption limits AI's potential. The publication that originally reported this headline has since corrected its article, noting that the quote was wrongly attributed to Bezos. theprint.in/feature/jeff-b… bbc.com/news/articles/…
Four months and I still havent received by refund as promised.
DO NOT BOOK WITH @OojoFlights
DO NOT BOOK with @OojoFlights
Stranded in another country right now bc they cancelled my booking twice and failed to give me notifications on time.
Also, u cant get them on call unless u have US ph number. So rescheduling/ rebooking is next to impossible unless u are in US.
Neha retweeted
la hai.... to the people cheering for data centers in Nepal.
data centres are draining bengaluru’s ground water. right now there are 31 data centres in bengaluru. data centres consume roughly 20 million litres of water EVERYDAY.
where will that water come from because bengaluru has no river and is entirely dependent on groundwater.
more data centres are planned and upcoming. our country will not survive this. the planet will not survive this. we will not survive this.
What if we love our trans & queer folks even when they are not winning international awards for the nation?
and congratulations to the team of #ElephantsInTheFog. What a beautiful season for Nepali cinema.