12 of your inherent rights that come with responsibilities

change, leadership, responsibility

my-rights-and-my-responsibilities

I believe:

  1. I believe in your right to speak up (silence kills)  along with your responsibility to know when to shut up (words can kill)

  2. I believe in your right to own anything  along with  your responsibility to take great care of all that you own.

  3. I believe in your right to your privacy along with your responsibility to be accountable to those who live around you

  4. I believe in your right to do any work along with your responsibility to bear consequences of your work.

  5. I believe in your right to keep what you reap along with your responsibility to share what you reap.

  6. I believe in your right to love anyone  along with your responsibility to love anything (environment, society) that protects you.

  7. I believe in your right to refuse to help an unjust government along with your responsibility to help install a just ‘servant’ government.

  8. I believe in your right to bring life (or to die) at your will along with your responsibility to protect lives in peril or in despair.

  9. I believe in your right to safeguard your life along with your responsibility to safeguard other’s lives.

  10. I believe in your right to follow your own thoughts, dreams or religion along with your responsibility to use your thoughts, will, philosophy or religion to unite…

  11. I believe in your right to live a life any way you want along with your responsibility to make a dent in the universe before you go away.

  12. I believe in your right to be any nation’s citizen if you can prove your love for it along with your responsibility to keep on proving that you deserve to stay its citizen.

Every single one of our rights comes balanced with responsibilities! Are you ready to balance them? Are you ready to follow this ‘BibekSheel’ middle path?

Think about this the next time you take a step. Change begins with you.

 

नेपाली क्रिकेट टिमले नेपालका नेतालाई सिकाएका १० नेतृत्वका पाठ

inspiring personalities, leadership, nepali

नेपालका कुनै पनि ‘नेता’हरुले हाम्रो क्रिकेट टिमबाट नेतृत्वको भरपूर पाठ सिक्नु छ! (Read in English)

नेपाली क्रिकेट टिमले हाम्रा नेतालाई के पाठ सिकाउदैँ छन् त?

१) कसरी (सहि) ईतिहाँस रच्ने
२) कसरी देशको महिमा बढाउने
३) कसरी जीत-जीतको वातावरण तयार गर्ने
४) कसरी नेपाली को तन-मन जिती राख्ने, जित्दा मात्र होईन हार्दा पनि
५) कसरी मिलेरै लक्ष्य हासिँल गर्ने अाफु बीच जत्ति प्रतिस्प्रधा वा महत्वकाङ्क्षा भएनी
६) कसरी न्यून श्रोतमा पनि अपार सफलता हाँसिल गर्ने
७) कसरी नेतृत्व भनेको बोलेर होईन गरेर देखाउने हो
८) कसरी योग्यतामुखी बाटो नै सफलता पाउने सर्वत्तम बाटो हो ( उनीहरु योग्यताको अाधारमा रोजिएका थिए न कि नाता, जात-भात, गुट, धन, पहुँच वा भनसुनको अाधारमा )
९) कसरी युवा पिढि यो देशको भविष्य मात्र नभई, बर्तमान पनि हो
१०) कसरी नेपालीहरुलाई एक बनाए – ‘असम्भव’ नै सम्भव बन्न थाल्छ !

हाम्रो क्रिकेट टिमको उपलब्धि अघि म श्रद्धाले शीर झुँकाउछु!

हेर्नुहोस् कसरी हाम्रो नव-पुस्ताका नेपालीहरु हाम्रो हिरोहरुलाई स्वागत गरे बिमानस्थलमा ! जहिले पनि हामीले यस्तै सहयोग गरि राखौँ जब जब हाम्रो शीर ठाडो बनाई राख्छन् उनीहरुले! माफ गर्नुहोला – राम्ररी खिच्न सकिएन – म पनि दंगै थिए त्यहाँ।

र केहि महिना अघि स्वागत गर्न जाँदा यो खिचेँ। उर्जा जता ततै !

(राजनीतिक) बिधार्थी संगठनको सट्टा के त ?

change, environment, nepali, thought provoking

 

राजनीतिक बिधार्थी संगठनको ठाँउमा ‘कलेज कल्याण परिषद” राखे कसो होला ?
जसमा ‘बिधार्थी, प्रशासक, प्रध्यापक, कर्मचारी, त्यो टोलका प्रतिनिधि अनि भुतपूर्व बिधार्थीका प्रतिनिधि’ एकै ठाँउमा बसी सबैका साझा समस्याका हल गरिने छ।

राजनीतिक संघ-संगठनको सट्टा काम अनुसारको क्लब प्रणाली राखे कसो होला ? उदाहरणको लागि उद्दमशीलता बिकास क्लब, क्रिकेट क्लब, पेशा परामर्श (career counseling) क्लब, वातावरण क्लब आदि खोली बिधार्थीको हितमा लागे कसो होला।

राजनीतिको नाम लिएर बिधार्थीको पठनपाठनमा मद्दत नगरि बिधार्थी अन्यत्रै राजनीतिक दलको कार्यमा लगाउने संगठन खोलेर काम छैन नेपाल । योग्यतामुखी समाज बनाउने हो भने यो चाकडी-गुण्डागर्दी प्रथा त्यागी विवेकशील उपायहरु अपनाउनु बेश होला साथीहरु !

बिकल्प के हुन सक्ला ? तपाईको पनि सुझाब पाँउ न

Don’t jump into quick conclusion. Lets be humble when judging others.

common sense, media

‘Sensational Media + Quick to judge masses = Shameful culture’

Whenever you hear, read or see something, we (amplifiers in media /social media) have a habit to spread the ‘gossip’. For your own good, do take a step back. If you have to judge, first ‘empathize’. We are all going through hard times surviving in this world. Lets not be hasty to judge and point fingers at people unless you see clear proofs. Truths are rarely black and white. In fact when anyone sets out to do something, we usually do it thinking we are doing something right…

Jumping into quick conclusion only hurts us more. The greatest gift we humans get is “empathy” and “logic”. Use them wisely.
These days I see us  framing news in such a way that the masses perceives the news as the only truth.

Note to Amplifiers:
1) Be humble while amplifying.
2) Best to wait until you verify breaking news.
3)Best be a miser at amplifying bad news

Buy time to do nothing: how to tackle a system’s tactic to stop change

accountability, campaigns

In Nepal, there is an alarming trend.
Whenever there is an agitation, campaign or even a revolution in Nepal, it seems  an effective strategy for those in power will  water it down ( counter) by using the “buying time to do nothing” tactic (over and over).

What is ‘buying time to do nothing?’
It is ‘agreeing’  to build a ‘high level commission’ to investigate the matter at hand and use that time to essentially tire  campaigners  out.

Prominent News in Nepal usually reads,
“Deal reached! High level commission set up to investigate so and so…. ! “

Everyone becomes happy that solution is at hand!  Citizens move on! Our supporters and fellow change-makers move on to other issues !  We (are forced to) move on !

The key for any change-maker at this time is : When ever a high level commission is set up, transform your task-force into a watchdog! Your first duty as a watchdog is to warn media, and all your supporters that this is the most dangerous time to slacken, give them examples of the past campaigns that failed when they slacked off at this stage and convince them this is actually the time to take campaign to step 2.

Make sure you do this:

  • Set up an accountability seeking team (shadow task force) that has direct contact with the High level commission members and remind them to the point they know we are watching their every step.
  • Ask for a phase wise plan that needs to be delivered. (it can’t be something like, please don’t bother us for 3 months while we work on it ). Form your own accountability task forces (shadow task forces). Divide them into smaller sub-task-force and involve your supporters in this process.
  • Make high level commission members name and contact information public. Keep the campaign going on a smaller scale. Don’t stop.
  • Make sure they  give a weekly report to the accountability seeking team in your group). Initiate a countdown.
  • Engage with media issuing weekly update on the commission’s work. Make sure media covers your issue periodically.
  • Rally your supporters with regular updates and ask them to consistently write or talk about this issue to the their local crowd. Warn them not to fall under a false sense of security that the job will be done.
  • Remind citizens and campaigners that its their own issue!

We need you to be Nepal’s watchdog! In a country where the system expect you to be a sheep, learning how to be a watchdog is perhaps the antidote to the sleeping tablet they feed us while they do their excesses!