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UDHR and Animal Farm

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Is Universal declaration of Human Rights really universal? Or is it just like George Orwell’s one of the seven commandments in the Animal Farm on how some animals are more equal than the others? Last month while attending one of the panel discussions with the delegates and guest speakers under the track of Humanitarian Affairs (HPAIRxSYD), I came across a question that changed my perspective of seeing things. The question which triggered me was if UDHR really is universal. UDHR or Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the human rights declaration published in 1948 and is a soft law accepted(but might not be applied) by every countries of the world, except for North Korea (for obvious reasons). This question was brought in the panel discussion and I remember specifically how one of the acclaimed speaker said that like how time changes, the human rights change too. He also gave example how computer and technology is a fundamental universal human right at present. But is it reall...
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उछिट्टिएकि मकै म

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उछिट्टिएको मकै खानुहुन्न रे त्यसलाई, कठै! हाँडि दुनियाँ त्यसको सिन्काहरुले घुमाउछन् पोलाउछन्, भुट्छन्। जबसम्म भुटिन्न, घुमाउछन् तर सबै मकै उस्तै नहुने कुनैकुनै सार्है बैगुनी ठेट्ना भएर मात्र भएर पड्केर नबसी फुल भई हाँडी बाहिर फुत्किन्छ मकै अनि खानु हुन्न भन्छन् त्यसलाई, कठै! लाग्छ म त्यस्तै उछिट्टिएकि मकै हुँ अनि यो समाज उस्तै एउटा हाँडी बहिर निस्कन खोज्छु, उम्कन खोज्छु तर सिन्काहरुले घुमाएर भित्रै हुकाउन खोज्छन् हाँडीमा आफ्नोपन छ, न्यानोपन छ सबै आफूजस्तै देखिन्छन् तर मलाई आकश देख्नु छ तारा टिप्नु छ, हिमालसँग मितेरी गास्नु छ तर यो हाँडी बाहिर जान निषेधित छ आमा भन्छिन्, "उछिट्टिएको मकै नखाउ नानी सानै उमेरमा पोइला गइन्छ," बा भन्छन्, "एक्लै बाहिर ननिस्क, समाजले उच्छृन्खल कहलाउछ" के फरक भयो र मेरो दर्जामा? एक फिक्र्एकि फूल मकैजस्तै, के नै भिन्न भयो र? आखिर म पनि त भए नि हाँडीबाट उछिट्टिएकि मकै!
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म इन्द्रेणी भए रे

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अस्ति उहाँका साथीहरु आउँदा म ठुलो आवजमा हासे रे उहाँहरुसङै हो-मा-हो मिलाउँदा उहाँलाई बडो अप्ठ्यारो पर्‍यो रे सहनै नसकेर, अब त्यस्तो नगरोस् भनेर कुट्नु भएको रे तर अहिले, ...
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About being beautiful

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Have you ever heard of a Selena Gomez song “Who says?” The lyrics goes something like this:  I'm no beauty queen I'm just beautiful me There is a reason why I made you read the lyrics of this song. These days I see people, especially girls posting about how much they feel that they are ugly and feel like a retard in their life for not being gorgeous. Let me tell you girls, the grass on the other side always looks greener. No matter how hard we try we girls (by nature) tend to evaluate the beauty of others by their appearance (at least to some extent.) I am not saying it’s a bad thing. But the thing which I detest is how we compare our self to be not as beautiful or not as sexy as the other friend. We aren’t realizing this but by doing such comparisons we sure are disrespecting our self.  We always say we need to love our self and accept the way we are. Yes, we obviously need to do some efforts to accelerate the level of success. But using the term “ugl...
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Misuse of children in politics

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"Murdabaad!" "Jindabaad!" I heard these and I observed the political protest rally of some party on the streets. I saw red flags being held by each of the participants in that rally. As I observed the rally, at a glance I saw bunch of 'students in uniform' there. After noticing more, I saw that there were more number of students in the mass, than adults. It was a mid of a day. Those students were supposed to be in school but there they were, chanting slogans on the streets. The students literally seemed like they were from primary section. And instead of studying at school, they were on the streets.  The political men have then own intentions and agendas. What I don't understand is why are those students of primary section taking part in something which they are unknowing about. I was wondering about how much they were educated enough to be knowing about the political matters. It was a misuse of those students. This kind of use of the stud...
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About embracing oneself

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Back then when I was in high school, one of my very good friends came to me and wonderingly asked why guys seemed more interested in me despite having so many flickers all over my face. Until then, I had never been asked such a hard question in my life. I don’t remember how I answered back to her but that incident made my self esteem so down. I started feeling awkward whenever any individual used to come near to me in the fear that they would notice my flickered face. I started becoming more conscious. Even if I found someone looking at my face, I had this sensation that s/he would probably be counting how many flickers I had, or deciding which is the biggest of all - anything related to flickers! I won't lie. I started to search everywhere possible to get rid of this flickered face. I tried many of them too. But they were natural things on me and too stubborn to detach. " Make your skin fairer and shine bright like no other! " I think like me everyone of us h...
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The Smartest One

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I am a law student so I need to be smart. This is how people perceive me. Well, there are lots of things like, politics, technology in which I am so naive. In fact, often I feel like a dull- witted in the group of baboon headed people in my classroom. It sucks more because there is actually no one who comes up and says that "its okay not to know things" and I end up saying something stupid most of the times. But I read a quote early this morning which said, " If you are the smartest in the room, then you are in the wrong room, " and this changed my whole vision upon how I looked at my friends and their talks. I was brought up in such an environment where I was taught to be the smartest and the best in the classroom. I was taught to learn from my friends but still never to let them win me in any marathons or competitions or exams. So basically, I was called the smartest if only I won in everything. What I was failed to be taught in my school was, learning ...
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