१२ नेपाली शव्दहरु यो बर्ष नेपालका राजनितिज्ञहरु र विज्ञहरुले धमिलाएका र गनाउने बनाईएकाछन्। यीनैहरुलाई पखाल्न बर्षौ लाग्ने छ।
- सहमति
- प्याकेज-डिल
- स्वभाद्रपूर्ण
- वार्ता
- सर्वसत्तावाद
- सर्वसम्मति
- भागवन्डा
- अनुसन्धान समिति
- प्रभु
- नेता
- लोकतन्त्र
- युवा
Why we need our solitude in the world of media on your hands… ?
‘I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.’~Henry David Thoreau
12 Lessons from volunteering for Occupy Baluwatar
It has been continuous 40 days since I started volunteering as a conscious citizen for #OccupyBaluwatar ( बालुवाटार सत्याग्रह ) protests in-front of the place where the Prime-minister of Nepal lives. This movement is gathering citizens to become responsible enough to hold our government accountable through 5 signature cases of Nepali women who have suffered terrible fate (raped, looted, burnt alive, mental torture to suicide) because of direct government action/inaction.
If you want to find out more about this movement, please go to this Wikipedia article which has details.
12 Lessons learnt:
- Prepare for a marathon, a movement is not a hundred meter race.
- He who gets tired first loses. (Repeat this mantra in your head)
- It doesn’t matter who takes the credit. Let all take the credit, even those who you believe don’t deserve to.
- Let others lead when movement is going smoothly. Lead up-front only when things becomes difficult or dangerous.
- Leadership is commitment & accountability. Commit and be accountable to your commitment. Change begins with yourself.
- adopt the philosophy of “Karma – कर्म”, i.e, Just do the work, never expecting the fruits.
- Hope but don’t expect (from other people, other
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12 Effective Facebook tips for brands, organizers and administrators
If you are a community organizer or an activist building a “tribe”, and want to use Facebook as an effective tool to connect, here are some of the lessons I have learnt in the last 4 years where I have mobilized (or tried to) effective Facebook groups of more than 10,000 members. This applies broadly to handling your Facebook profile branding as well as “Facebook groups” and “pages”.
- Use Facebook groups for the right reasons: It’s a place to tell/spread (amplify) news.
- Get advice, not consensus from your members.
- When you get cynical, negative comments (usually from trolls), accept the post and just reply back with the word, “Noted”. Don’t ever defend, argue or try to please them. Trolls are trolls.
- Make a “code of conduct” list before inviting people to your Facebook group. Save it as a document in there. Update it regularly & remind people (by pinning that post regularly).
- Ban people if they don’t abide by code of conduct repeatedly. 3 strikes law works here. Also It is not your job to explain the reason for banning each member. Use that time instead, to deliver in action, the purpose of your group. If there is too much
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Can Public Personalities be good political leaders?
All that glitters is not gold is an old saying. Hungry for true political leaders in a long long time we Nepalis tend to pin our hopes on any and every well-meaning citizen that shows even a tiny bit of a spark to take up the reins.
Similar infatuations albeit towards political figures led us to getting half-baked leaders in the past (including the current Prime Minister) who brought us nothing but more misery and disappointments. Bitten by politicians, we have now begun to look beyond their failed pedigree. We need to be careful though.
Running a company, a non-profit organization, hosting a talk show, acting in movies, appearing in commercials, writing a book, giving public speeches, holding a Ph. D. degree all require mastery over many a skills. Yet these occupations are much less trickier than running even a small township in a democracy. All of these professionals can well be capable of running a public office, but their success in current occupation does not necessarily make them the right choice for a public role. A square peg may be perfect in itself, yet it does not fit into a round hole.
Running a country is a different
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