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Dissecting PhD sagas-II

Nepal, May 9 -- About six years ago, Nepal's oldest university, Tribhuvan University (TU), adopted a "PhD by coursework" route for its doctoral students in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science... Read More


Dissecting PhD sagas-I

Nepal, April 26 -- Two weeks ago I got a phone call from a friend I first met in the early 1990s. He told me he was applying to a PhD program at one of the universities in Nepal. He further said the u... Read More


Documenting modern architectural forms

Nepal, April 11 -- On March 22, 2024, an important exhibition titled "Modern Encounters in Architecture: Kathmandu Valley (1945-85)" opened at the Taragaon Next Museum in Boudha, Kathmandu. An eponymo... Read More


On archiving private papers

Nepal, March 29 -- Working on and off for almost a decade, the historical sociologist Lokranjan Parajuli and I were able to put together articles written by the political and literary historian Leelan... Read More


Plural histories of school education

Nepal, March 15 -- Our knowledge of the history of school education in Nepal is rather limited. When some colleagues compiled a list of nearly 150 PhD dissertations completed by 2016 at various univer... Read More


Crowdsourcing for research infrastructure

Nepal, March 1 -- Let us only examine the data for the past three calendar months (December 2023-February 2024). During that period, several individuals who were usually based abroad, bought books in ... Read More


'Jhur' idea of a university service commission

Nepal, Feb. 16 -- For some time now, the Nepali public at large has been criticising the quality of journalism rendered by our country's traditionally influential print news outlets. This criticism is... Read More