Greening the Tribhuvan University
This is the piece I wrote for the Kathmandu Post, September 15, 2009. I know it will be very hard for those who are involved in ‘higher education’ in Nepal. After all, they came there to escape the soil. But the way Tribhuvan University’s central campus Kirtipur’s landscape is, it purely symbolizes utter lack of societal concern, expropriation without accountability and frozen and degraded vision of a university that has increasingly less connections with the living world in it, around it.
This is one part of 6-part essay on transforming TU. I will post others as soon as they get published in my regular column
