Cleaning Up Our Act

Cleaning Up Our Act

My interest in geography began when I was three, when my mother showedme a red dot on a map of an airline inflight magazine, and said “this is where your grandmother is.” We had just moved from Switzerland, where my mother is from, to Nepal, where my father is from, and I was missing my […]

The Untold Story of Far West

The Untold Story of Far West

Understanding the past is always important to derive lessons for the future, and gain a holistic perspective. To understand a country, you need to place it within the coordinates of space and time, of geography and history. Nepal’s strategic position between two global economic powers has always been a huge advantage, but as a nation […]

The New Innings – Rise of Cricket in Nepal

The New Innings – Rise of Cricket in Nepal

Amidst the daily dose of never ending and frustrating news of Nepal’s political and economic woes, once in a while Nepal’s young bring positive news and show that all is not lost. Indeed, the hope of Nepal’s cricket team is in strong contradiction to the general mood of despondency in the country. Recently, Nepal’s senior […]

The Beed Journey

The Beed Journey

Five years ago in September 2008, beed management had just been registered and Mahendra Mainali our lawyer friend had handed over the registration documents. To start out, we planned a retreat at Park Village with the first eight members of beed to develop a strategic plan for the company, wherein we adapted brand visioning tools […]

Technology – The New Evolution

Technology – The New Evolution

The Industrial Revolution saw a dramatic advancement of technology, but that development has been left way behind by the speed and spread of the Information Revolution. Especially since the second World War, the advancement of information and communication technologies has transformed human society like nothing before. The converge of computers, telephony and television have combined […]

Nepal and Liberia: Diverse Contexts, Shared Lessons

Nepal and Liberia: Diverse Contexts, Shared Lessons

In June 2007, I took a trip to Nepalgunj to meet representatives of the Madhesi community. I wanted to try and understand more about political dynamics in the Terai. While sipping chia, the groups I chatted with explained vociferously, often for hours at a time, the difficulties they faced on a daily basis, which ranged […]

Korea in Nepal

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

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

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…

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- […]