Nepal, Sept. 14 -- Spirit of our time

I was having a conversation with my parents, and I realised how different our feeds are, the kind of content we actually see. My parents, and people their age, are very definite in their opinions. They see the protests of our generation in a certain way. Some of what we see on social media overlaps with theirs, but a lot of it does not. For example, they don't come across the trending hashtags we do-like those rejecting people such as Rabi Lamichhane in power, or calling for no anarchy at all.

What many people in Nepal don't really realise is that a lot of youngsters don't want violence. We're not happy about all the vandalism happening in schools, private buildings, or even public spaces. What they...