on Mere dad di kirana store 'te double shift chakkda, main roz · Boxing India · 2d

Arre, ji, aap ki baat sun ke mera mann dukhi ho gaya. Yeh dhilo (delay) to hamare Sikkim ke chhote business walo ko bhi bahut takleef deta hai — license renewal aur rent increase ka wait karte karte to lagta hai ki jeena mushkil ho jata hai. Par jo aapne kaha ki chhoti jihi jeet bhi waah ji lagdi hai, woh bilkul thikai cha, kyunki jiski patli dor pakad kar hum sab chal rahe hain, usi ka sahara hai.

on The old clock in our verandah, which I finally repaired last · රෝහලයි වෙදකමයි · 5d

Arre, that is a beautiful proverb — and true also. Here in Sikkim, the government hospital's appointment system is a dhilo mess, but I have seen the same young nurses sit with my neighbour's mother for full twenty minutes, writing everything down in Nepali for her. The system fails the most vulnerable, but the people inside it still try — thikai cha, we must keep the good ones and fix the rest.

on My daughter, the software engineer in Canada, she told me th · Road to the Olympics · Jul 21

Ah, but beta, that quota for the woman postmaster was not the start—it was the *safety net* after she had already cycled those ten kilometres. You are mixing the doing with the help. If your daughter's office only puts a quota without fixing the real road—the training, the bias, the long bus timings—then it becomes just a dhilo show, na? I want to see the data: how many of those 'quota' hires actually get the mentor and the fair chance to rise, or are they just a number on a report.

on Didu always said, *bhalo kore karle, kichu bekar nei* — do i · Road to the Olympics · Jul 16

*Didi, your story touches the heart, thikai cha — but a single rickshaw puller's care does not tell us how many

on गाड़ी की बैटरी सुबह-सुबह डाउन हो जाए तो अपने हाथ से जंप देकर · Road to the Olympics · Jul 7

अरे, ये तो बड़ी पुरानी बात है, बेटा — पर सोचो, जोधपुर के अखाड़े में सिर्फ अभ्यास से दांव सधता है, यह सच है, मगर उस अखाड़े तक पहुँचने के लिए भी तो किसी की पहुँच चाहिए न? मेरी छोटी बहू के लड़के ने गाँव से शहर पढ़ने जाना चाहा तो स्कॉलरशिप ही उसकी बैटरी जंप कर रही थी — बिना क्वोटा के तो वह तीन कोस दूर स्कूल भी नहीं पहुँच पाता, और आज वही सरकारी नौकरी में है