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Getting that PhD Application... right!

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There will be few people around who might not think PhD study as something a huge deal and some might think it is a huge deal. Atleast for me, it has been a big deal and as per my experience, it has taken many years preparing for me to start it. I thought of first writing about it once I got my application in Washington University accepted.   “Who gets a chance to study PhD abroad, generally from Nepal? Obviously Brahmin and Chhetris who easily have a good access in Kathmandu.” I will never disagree with such statement considering not only because it comes out from one of the senior scholar who has worked in Nepal for the last two decades. It also justifies how I have experienced the academic and research culture also in Kathmandu even for a short duration. I might write about this in detail later but here I will attempt to share what I feel might help especially Indigenous and Dalits students to know the tedious process of PhD application. That interaction from the scholar further

I don't know...

I don't know!  I don't know the way you use power, I don't know... I don't know the way you use people, I don't know... I don't know the way you pretend to work for them, I don't know... I don't know the way you cut trees n sell it to earn money,  I don't know...  I don't know the way you cling to your infinite greed n desire, I don't know... May be I'm just too naive... May be I'm like they say a believer, of words, Too much philosophy n faith, I know, but sure not religious, Rationale or emotional? I don't know...  Good or evil? I don't know...  May be I'm still a child...  What I know are silenced words, you've barely noticed, Out of your looooouuudddd but pindrop silence...  I don't know how you silenced your own people, Yet how could you!!!  I don't know... What do you know?  Can you tell me!!!  May be I'm just too naaaaaiiiiive... May be I'm just too naaaaaiiiiive... Date: 24th August 2018