As fears mount that the death toll in #Myanmar could reach into the thousands, emerging evidence of the damage to crucial cultural and religious monuments makes yesterday's earthquake all the more devastating.

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Thank you for lending your gravitas to this book!

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Thank you Sudeep Shrestha for alerting me to this piece! And thank you to Sabina Shrestha for writing this!

New article The Lahure dream: Unpacking Nepali military aspirations and masculinity by Sanjay Sharma Sanjay Sharma in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Let's call it like it is: Today, the KP Sharma Oli government murdered at least 19 young Nepalis in cold blood.

Today I spoke to dozens of protesters. Most of them were not GenZ. All of them were angry. But that anger was misdirected. I pulled three journalists from a van that a mob was trying to burn with them inside. "Sab patrakar jhole ho," they kept saying.

Thursday, September 11, 8AM update from Kathmandu. Thread: It has been raining for a few hours and the streets are calm. The shells of burned out cars and motorbikes still litter the streets while the ruins of buildings smolder under the rain.

Mid-week take about the Gen Z-led protests in Nepal and how Nepali media needs to do some serious soul-searching about how it missed the biggest story in Nepal’s modern history. bojubajai.substack.com/p/take-71-is-t…

Momo, chicken chilly, aloo sandeko and chiya. This man is an honorary Nepali.

Let me explain exactly why VLC is free despite 6B downloads, because no one seems to get it. VLC doesn’t make money because making money would destroy the only thing that made it reach 6 billion downloads in the first place. The player grew through a specific distribution loop:

My top takeaways from executive coach Rachel Lockett: 1. The biggest skill gap in new leaders is knowing when to coach vs. when to tell people what to do. When you constantly provide answers, you train your team to bring you every problem instead of building their own

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