Rising Junkiri | Chaffey College | Activity https://risingjunkiri.com/team-junkiri/dshimkhada/activity/ Activity feed for Chaffey College. Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:59:40 +0545 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3c0dd5a11ecc83184e4733b4fffa5e5f Chaffey College changed their profile picture https://risingjunkiri.com/activity/p/3183/ Tue, 31 May 2022 16:53:20 +0545 0 73f02b6743845319ae4e1880048f006d Chaffey College's profile was updated https://risingjunkiri.com/activity/p/3181/ Tue, 31 May 2022 16:49:14 +0545 0 c760d0d0d1f1029ad6d4583d7851ccdf Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=25524 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:15:23 +0545 Topi Diwas—My Turn
I am against Topi Diwas on which the Topi is worn to instill pride in our culture for one day. Let me explain why. It’s not that I am against Nepali Topi. In fact, I love the Nepali Topi: I hav […]

]]> 8c7d227f94c15165dc2c1f78775bf772 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=25480 Sat, 12 Dec 2020 17:08:53 +0545 FIGHT OF FURY

By Deepak Shimkhada

Fight of Fury begins in a big work-out room where young women are throwing punches on men who are pinned to the floor. Shuny Bee, who plays the role of a martial arts instructor […]

]]> f437b0ace7fb410a23fb50140649b8f2 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=25093 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 03:36:11 +0545 by Deepak Shimkhada, Ph.D.

Gur, gur, gur, gur…… 
Yashoda churns butter while she sings a song.  There is no one around.  It seems Yashoda is enjoying what she is doing.  Nirmala, her neighbor comes in looking […]

]]> 78c4dc5e2cd80928ac242cc602cef8e6 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=24562 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 23:30:22 +0545 Nepal’s Stolen Image Found at Dallas Museum of Art
by Deepak Shimkhada, Ph.D.

This article (please check the link to read full text) by Erin L. Thompson, Professor of Art Crime in New York, published in H […]

]]> d1d9729d93e469748cb7b4f34b516dc8 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=23488 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 03:29:35 +0545 by Deepak Shimkhada, Ph.D.

I am called Ganesh, known by Hindus as the God of Good Luck. Just 180 years ago, an image of my likeness was commissioned by Dhan Raj Shrestha, a rich merchant of Kathmandu. For this […]

]]> 69ca8ab82dd9abe0b7e2f63e2e10c1ab Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=19848 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 08:30:10 +0545 I have always wondered about Lord Ganesha story and why he got an elephant’s head when he lost his human head. Why?

Surely, there were other animals in the Himalayan landscape when he lost his head.  His fa […]

]]> bf318ce1f4179a57af37840f1101daad Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=19733 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 05:26:16 +0545 I have often wondered why Nepalis smile a lot.  Foreigners see Nepalis as happy people even though Nepal is ranked as an economically poor country.  So is economic prosperity really a sign of happiness?

Here a […]

]]> 2a7a8f4f44af12b6c9e2666e2dd2bdae Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=19321 Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:12:30 +0545 Why can’t we put our smartphones down?  We use them while driving, eating, sitting in a lecture hall, and in the company of friends and family members.  What’s so important that we risk of getting into a serio […]

]]> be5843d422cb8d867a675a299708dd95 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=19262 Sat, 19 Jan 2019 16:49:23 +0545 One night I found myself seated at a table with a group of eminent people, enjoying dinner after attending an invitational lecture at the college where I taught.  There were a biologist and a physicist in our […]

]]> 5bed66905820703d1262fd9f7c781ec2 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=19143 Sun, 09 Dec 2018 21:33:36 +0545 Today the topic of happiness is vitally important.  What is happiness?  What is it that makes people happy?  Pleasure seems to be one answer.  The use or abuse of opioids has swept the country on an epidemic sca […]

]]> fd71443efd4e1dc61e4e030af4dd3b63 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=18014 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 09:30:46 +0545 Nepali artist Sushma Shimkhada was a feminist, a radical, and a rebel, who was way ahead of her time. She began her career in the early 1970s, and her journey wasn’t an easy one. In Nepal, the profession of […]

]]> ba3454f82a217373450e5c9ae7f275e8 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=2859 Fri, 09 Sep 2016 03:15:46 +0545 Old Car: A Piece of History

A well-ridden bike or a well-driven car has its own history. Each of them leaves its own mark behind. For example, my old SUV (Nissan—Pathfinder) just turned 19. It has over one h […]

]]> 08c097df0b83259ae230641e0c5dc088 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=2261 Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:00:00 +0545 The Himalaya was nature’s gift to Nepal when, millions of years ago, the Indo-Australian Tectonic Plate collided with the Eurasian Tectonic Plate, forming what is now called the abode of snow (Himalaya).  It is […]

]]> a83c6b08493efc427346f5e6fad542d2 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=1924 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 15:30:35 +0545 Mr. Shiv Raj Bhatt, Technical Adviser of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, Government of Solomon Islands, wrote[Nepal is] “Landlocked with Bad Neighbours” this is one of the reasons [that] keep poor […]

]]> 2f4cf884e1e65a038d7b99b16a1a85d3 Chaffey College wrote a new post https://risingjunkiri.com/?p=1821 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:39:19 +0545 India China Relations of Nepal: an Analysis by Dr. Shimkhada. what commonality do Nepalis have with the Chinese?  None.  What makes me say this?  Because we don’t speak the same language, we don’t use the same s […]

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