pratakshya, Author at Rising Junkiri

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Did you feel responsible for the universe – like the weight was yours to carry? When it hurt, and you were crushed, Did you embrace the familiar ache? Did you rise? Did you break when you didn’t belong, u... Read More...

How to be a (feminist) warrior without actually going to war

pratakshya

Women

1908

Years ago, women began fighting for equal rights. Fast forward to 2017, and we’re still fighting. Except that we now have slight (slight!) freedom to pick our battle — and our choice of weapon. Let’s face it, ... Read More...

Menstruating Women, Biased God, And The Aftermath

pratakshya

Blogs, Nepal, Women

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A 15-year-old girl in Nepal died after being sent to live in a “shed” while she was menstruating. The headline news of menstruating women found dead has been common lately than ever, sending the world into a fr... Read More...

Retrospect: On courage and the day it became my friend

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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"What do you think you were doing?" You ask yourself. “I don’t know. I wasn’t being myself!” You answer for yourself. I was scared, and then I did this thing that I was sure was going to kill me. But it didn'... Read More...

The American Dream – from this end of election day

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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Election day is approaching! The other day, I was waiting for a bus when a man stood next to me and lit a cigarette. We were both standing under a large, glaring sign that asked people not to smoke in the area... Read More...

When in doubt, be orange

pratakshya

Poetry

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When in doubt, be orange; If you can be a fruit, be an orange. Don’t be an apple. Don’t be zero shades of white. Be an orange. Be so orange that they have to name a color after you. Don’t be an appl... Read More...

A mile, in my shoes

pratakshya

Women

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I'm walking on a busy street. It's mid-afternoon, in a great city, in a great country. What could go wrong? The weather is nice. The mood is solemn. What could go wrong? It's busy and bustling. Ther... Read More...

Give me words. I’ll give you nothing.

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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Right here. This is where life shuts down so you can hear it sing. Do you hear the absolute? Do you feel it tingling your bones? It is you. It is everything that went wrong. Everything that didn’t happen. Every... Read More...

Apathy, very much

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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In all these years of being in the United States, the one unaltered feeling underneath it all has been the feeling of not belonging. Most of it is my own doing – building root has never been my priori... Read More...

It’s a bird it’s a plane it’s a rant.

pratakshya

Women

1891

Settle down, woman! Because your unsettled, frisky self is threatening my uninspired soul. Because your lonely existence is giving me chills. Because your relentless drive is sucking the air ... Read More...

New you. New me. New year.

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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Author's note: I wrote this post at the end of 2014 when I was hopeful about 2015 and what it could bring. The fact that it is just as relevant today, tells us something about human nature. Every ... Read More...

Adulting 101 – Losing my religion

pratakshya

Non-Fiction

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It happened one day. Years of fighting with disbelief and suddenly one day, the looming, looking, ever-present, know-it-all god disappeared from above my head. Growing up, I never had doubt that there was a ... Read More...

Dear ungrateful, unappreciative Nepali Citizen

pratakshya

Nepal

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This is a rant of mixed emotions. A lot of anger mixed with heartbreak from the earthquake that killed so many people yet failed to bring this country together. On behalf of the 8000 people who die... Read More...

All About Acid Attacks in Nepal

पापी आँखा र नारी

Beautiful Like I Used to Be

Acid attack – Heartless crime

ACID ATTACK: Disfiguring the Society

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones

पापी आँखा र नारी

Yes, I Bleed

Pain, I Have Never Known

तुहिएका सपना – कविता

Girls who changed the world forever and for better

Swasthani Brata Katha

नाजुक दिल

उसले जस्तै तिमी पनि

Nepali Poem डिजिटल प्रेम

जादुई लोककथा

nepali poem

किन त्यागी बन्छौ ?

व्याङ्गयातमक प्रस्तिुतिको सानो प्रयास!

pratakshya

What Did You Feel?- A conversation with 2017

How to be a (feminist) warrior without actually going to war

Menstruating Women, Biased God, And The Aftermath

Retrospect: On courage and the day it became my friend

The American Dream – from this end of election day

When in doubt, be orange

A mile, in my shoes

Give me words. I’ll give you nothing.

Apathy, very much

It’s a bird it’s a plane it’s a rant.

New you. New me. New year.

Adulting 101 – Losing my religion

Dear ungrateful, unappreciative Nepali Citizen

Author pratakshya