Korea in Nepal
The Korean Wave or Hallyu as the Chinese call it, has taken Asia and the world by storm. Over the past decade it has been spreading across China, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Philippines. Nepal, like its Asian counterparts has also been engulfed by it. More and more young adults are emulating South Korean fashion and […]
Amakuru Rwanda
beeds think big. This was evident to me from my first interview with Suman, cofounder of beed, who talked about the company’ mission to go global after just two years in business of business. It was when we won the global bid to work on a consulting contract with the Government of Rwanda that the […]
Beed People: The Third Pillar
My first introduction to beed was when I came to the office to drop a wedding card to a friend of mine who worked here. What a unique office setting I remember thinking. People were sitting not in cubicles, but around a long L shaped shared space amidst tasteful blue and red minimalist furniture. My […]
Nepal As I Travel…
They say Kathmandu does not define Nepal and nothing justifies it more when you experience it for yourself. Four years in beed and travel was the perk that came with the job. Over the past few years, I have travelled to places where I would never have set foot, traversed to about three dozen districts- […]
Insights from the UNUY: Leadership Thinkshop
beed leadership center launched the Unleashing Nepal-Unleashing You leadership thinkshop in early 2012. The thinkshop is a platform to spend two days thinking about you: where you are in life, where you want to be and how you imagine getting there. As part of the organizing team, I had the opportunity to watch the process […]
Leadership in Nepali Context
Whenever we talk about leadership in Nepal, the immediate image that comes to mind is of politicians, who make promises but never deliver. The discourse of leadership in Nepal has been judged not by performance, but by the number of titles one carries on one’s business card, or the number of sycophants that hang out […]