Day7: Spintacular finish! Thruster Daieishō (L) vs grappler Kiribayama who’s really showing his worth this basho. Couldn’t wait to see this one again on TV! You’ll watch this one a few times I bet. #akibasho2021

Yay. Vaccinate kids. Reopen schools!

Nepal Bar Association proposes bringing back "Trial by combat" as a way to reduce the caseload overwhelming the docket. At the district court level, you only get to use your hands... by the time it's a supreme court case even khukuris are allowed :-)

Sakar Pudasaini Sakar Pudasaini, founder karkhana explores #innovation, #technology, #education, and their social consequences in this new monthly column. Read how #Nepal can develop herd immunity against #disinformation, lies and propaganda on #SocialMedia. nepalitimes.com/opinion/face-t…

Christian Davenport 12 space flights in a calendar year is a record, beating the previous record of 11 in 1985. But 43 people flown is not a record: in 1985, 63 people were launched to space.

Anyone dance the tango in kathmandu? I want to brush up and dance more of it... post covid scare obviously.

Human rights may be one way to narrow the digital technology gap between #Kathmandu and Kalikot, writes Sakar Pudasaini Sakar Pudasaini. Read to find out how. Addressing #Nepal’s digital divide. nepalitimes.com/opinion/addres…

The central bank has issued a directive banning Nepalis from buying or investing in cryptocurrencies. In his monthly column, Sakar Pudasaini (Sakar Pudasaini) explores why cryptocurrencies have caused worry, and how we might think about digital currencies nepalitimes.com/opinion/decryp…

Join us May 4 at #GDDF2022 as Sakar Pudasaini from Karkhana, Marc Alain Boucicault 🇭🇹 from Banj, share their journeys laying the foundation of a digital ecosystem in Nepal and Haiti - brick by brick. Register at: digitaldevforum.course.tc (2/2)

Garima/Roji/Nabina&Sabita, 8/9 graders from Surkhet are using "still images" to tell community leaders their concerns about brain drain among youth AND that investing in modern agro techniques and skills might be a solution worth exploring.Mobile Arts for Peace Arts and Humanities Research Council Ananda Breed

Prof. Binod Prasad Pant shares that Nepali national curriculum demands the contextualization. And art based methods allow us to leverage our imagination to create contexts right in the classroom, he suggests. Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Ananda Breed Mobile Arts for Peace Dean Kathmandu University School of Education

What conceptions do young people carry of their teachers/leaders? Do teachers/leaders realize how they are seen by young people? Karkhana Samuha& Mobile Arts for Peace's team of researchers and artists are studying if #artbased methods can further intergenerational dialogue. Arts and Humanities Research Council

Really enjoying working with theater artist Gunjan Dixit, peace education profs Rajib Timalsina (TU)/Lalit Shahi (midwest) and education prof Binod Pant (KU) on this study. Rooting ourselves in theater and peace building is stretching me into new domains and new lines of thought.

"In the 90s people got angry at me for 'corrupting' young people through dance. Later they understood that dance allowed people to speak their minds without words" says Heatuda Ward 15 chairperson Sunil Moktan arguing for more arts in schools. Arts and Humanities Research Council Mobile Arts for Peace Rajib Timalsina

"The slient observers to corruption are also enablers" say young people in response to this still image created by their peers using technique of the Mobile Arts for Peace initiative facilitated by Gunjan Dixit. Karkhana Samuha Arts and Humanities Research Council #MAP #artInSchools

#MAPNotes #1 Art excites the imagination. Drawing from theater: social science teachers can enrich their student’s role play as legislators AND science teachers can facilitate dialogue about ethics. Art can provide context. #peacebuilding #youth Arts and Humanities Research Council @gcrf @mobile__arts

Prof. Yuda Ram from TU says that the gap is in delivery not policy. "in terms of curriculum I don't see much difference between the school I have visited in Europe and here. But the different is in delivery." Karkhana Samuha Mobile Arts for Peace Arts and Humanities Research Council #map #peacethroughlearning

#MAPNotes Peace is built on listening/feeling heard. Can art-based methods circumvent social conventions enabling intergenerational dialogue between youth and their much older leaders? Our research aims to find out. #youth #peacebuilding Arts and Humanities Research Council @gcrf Mobile Arts for Peace

(1/3 ) #MAPReflection 18-year-old YAAR Prasiddhi Shakya shares her experience from the first session of Karkhana Samuha’s MAP study in Nepal, she says “Working with new people in a group with several ideas and combining all of them was a bit challenging part of the day…