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Navigating media and social media as a Nepali woman

Back in 2016, I happen to share a personal opinion of mine on national tv that haunts me till this day. The witch-hunt of it continuing on my social media even today for something that happened 8 years ago! I will not go to the details of what it was, its out there on YouTube and you’re welcome to watch it. The topic was about inter-caste relationships and marriage. Sure, I could’ve worded better. Sure, I hurt the sentiments of my indigenous community for which I was deeply apologetic. But I am not so sure if I deserved to be on the receiving end of such slut-shaming and much soul-crushing vilification.   And that’s the thing about being a Nepali woman on the Internet — you have to tiptoe around blatant patriarchy. Your mistakes are not a mistakes of a human being, but of a woman—and that’s the worst kind.  Recently, another TV controversy sparked the Nepali social media sphere. And soon we saw people taking sides. The public enjoyed declaring their heroes and their villains in thi
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Keeping it Real of Faking it till we make it ?

Right off the bat, I want to clearly state that being 'real' doesn't account to one being rude, and 'faking it' doesn't entirely equal to a villainous fabrication of reality. Being social animals that we are, the goal is to perhaps hit that sweet spot right in the middle of the two. Let me explain.  I have a gorgeous, sweet friend named Alisha who's been a pal of mine since we were 18. Sorry Alisha for sharing this story without your say in it, but I hope you will like the conclusion I have derived from this.  So, we're in our 30's now, and when she visited Kathmandu last year we got to hang out again and indulge in our silly little banters like old times. We caught up on a few important things going on in our lives, but I was not prepared to get caught off guard when she shared of a conversation we once had when we were still in our teens. Apparently, she had shared with me her dream of one day becoming an English TV News Reader to which she said I

I Begin Again!

  I wrote my first blog back in 2010--this blog was created back then! Can you believe -- it's been 14 years since. Time really flies and I can only hope that my dreams, goals and ambitions didn't fly along with it.  Well, I had been wanting to come back to blogging since the past few months (talk about procrastination, my God!) and did a thorough research on what platform would be best to use. I wanted a one that would allow me an option for a mailing list--so that I can send my weekly blog entries to whoever out there would willingly listen / read my takes on life. But then, after much thought, I gave in to the idea of settling back to the platform I created as a young Samriddhi--that gave me such a voice back then when I felt like I had none. Not sure if I can have a mailing list here, I will try to find out. If not-- the age-old subscription notifications should do. But that's not the point. The point is that I am honoring my past younger self and continuing on her jour