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Jan 15 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
1/n
 In 2018, following d US-Bangla airplane crash, I had two questions (img 1) b/c d #AviationAccident record was horrendous.
ONE reason? Lack of proper investigations. We had clocked ~1 fatal accident/yr since 1990 & BUT most had been blamed on the pilot (img 2). #Nepal
2/n
 Sure, #Nepal's has one of the toughest & maybe even THE toughest terrain.

BUT then why these? 8 things I discovered in 2018 (see images 1-3)? #Nepal #AviationIndustry #AviationAccidents
3/n
 My own educated conclusion? The State of #Nepal has scant regard for human life. (You can see that not just in the #AviationIndustry but also in the way it has done NOTHING to address d incredibly high rate of accidents on d roads & highways.
(Src: dorjegurung.com/blog/2018/03/t…)
4/n
 What's happened since then? Since 2018 when I published that blog post?

A #TaraAir plan crashed in 2022. #Nepal #AviationIndustry #AviationAccident #AviationFatality
5/n
 A 3-tweet thread about the improvement we made in ICAO's rating BUT nothing on Rating on Accident Investigation related category in 2022. #Nepal #AviationIndustry #AviationAccidents
6/n
 My own take on how/why our rating increased to a point where ours was above world average?

See below. #Nepal #AviationIndustry #AviationAccidents
7/7
 And finally, why the mess? Why is it that we fail again and again to conduct proper investigation? The answer may lie what I discovered last year. #Nepal #AviationAccidents #AviationIndustry #Aviation

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#EducationSystem in #Nepal is of abysmally poor quality. Evidences abound.

One? The quantity of the textbooks. They are HORRENDOUS. This thread is about (parts of) the books I have reviewed. This is about a Grade 9 book. dorjegurung.com/blog/2020/01/l…
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Aug 12, 2022
One of the many things that never ceases to #amaze & #amuse me:

Nepalis countering/characterizing/interpreting commentary/statement abt #caste or anything that remotely appears to be an "attack" on a caste etc. as "hatred" etc.

Some recent egs. #Nepal
Another one of the many things that never ceases to #amaze & #amuse me:

Nepalis characterizing/interpreting commentary/statement abt #caste as "bigotry"/ "discrimination"/"prejudice."
Talking about caste/race, to them, is to be a #casteist/#racist! 🤣🤣
Some recent egs. #Nepal
BUT then again, in most cases, it's NOT their fault.
The fault lies with our #EducationSystem.
What can you expect from products of an #EducationSystem that educates its population on WHAT to think instead of HOW to think?!
(It certainly does NOT teach about #humanity.)
#Nepal
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Jun 26, 2022
1/n
 Nepalis generally struggle--or have difficulties--with a lot of things.

Here is a list of things that, as far as I am concerned, a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging.

1. imagining others DOING things that they can't imagine themselves doing

#Nepal
2/n
List of things a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging:

2. imagining others #WANTING things that they can't imagine themselves wanting

3. imagining others #THINKING about & in ways that they can't imagine themselves thinking

#Nepal
3/n
 List of things a lot of Nepalis find #INTELLECTUALLY #challenging:

4. imagining others #BELIEVING things that they can't imagine themselves believing

5. imagining others #REPRESENTING things that they can't imagine themselves representing

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Nov 13, 2020
1/
 This is my little nephew's school-issued #poetry #textbook that's part of the curriculum. He's in 4th grade.

Annie Shrestha (@scoannie) & I did a little #analysis of d contents of this textbook & made some interesting discoveries.

#Nepal #Caste #Gender #NepalEducation
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#Nepal #Caste #CasteIssues #Gender #NepalEducation #NepaliLiterature #GenderIssues #Exclusion #Diversity #Inclusion #representation #RepresentationMatters
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Nov 11, 2020
Something else I find
amusing/sad about fellow Nepalis:

Things you are doing or saying
that few or hardly any Nepali
does or says they find/think/
believe to be "wrong" or "bad"
for no reason other than
d fact that...so few--or no--
fellow Nepalis do or say!

#Nepal #Nepalipan
It's as if like d whole world
of ppl beyond d borders
of #Nepal doing & saying
different things didn't exist
& being a human being
mattered little...
while also wanting d best
education for their children,
both within & beyond
d confines of national, cultural,
& social borders!
To tie that to
something personal...

Nepalis with nowhere near
as much education &/or
life experiences (work in 5
& travel in +30 countries)
have questioned what I’m
doing &/or saying, & have
told me I’ve got it wrong even
abt things they clearly have
little to no idea abt.
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May 2, 2020
There are MAJOR issues with the image below depicting #equality & #equity, HOWEVER, there are Nepalis (including an association of private school teachers in the country) that think/believe d third method is the way to go when it comes to providing equity in education!
#Nepal 1/n
First, the MAJOR issues with the image.

"Imagine if you will, 3 people —all the same goddamn size. [...] The foundation on which these people stand is unequal, [....]"

That is, the PEOPLE aren't the problem! Follow link for more. 2/n #Equality #Equity medium.com/@eec/this-equi…
In d context of education in #Nepal, what lies beyond d wall is QUALITY education...education which imparts #CriticalThinking skills, among other things, to a majority or a significant percentage of students. What we have, on this side of the wall, in d country is... #equity 3/n
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