The Talking Kathmandu

The fear of not doing can be as real as the fear of heights or darkness. The internet is filled with ‘how to be more productive’ self help links. This shows our obsession with being of some use. This blog post can be relevant to those people who are obsessed with creating, those people who get an adrenaline rush when solving a problem and those people who just want to escape boredom. The urge to always create or be of some use is a natural human character in all of us but the intensity and cause of that urge can differ from person to person. It can sometimes even be counter-productive to always worry about being productive. I experience this myself. If I haven’t done anything productive for more than a day or two I fall into this abyss of low spirit, I don’t feel good about myself.  There might be many forms and causes of this phenomenon.  There is a medical term called chronophobia, it is the fear of time or passing of time. On a macro level, this can be evident at important event

"Well, it's time to be active", said the mind and heart, only to be overshadowed by the intention of the body, to keep lying on the corner of bed. Putting all of the "to be done"(or wished to be done) at stake, at once, my mind and heart who were at one moment before disagreeable now become convinced, and all three of them, the mind, the heart and the body coalesce in perfect unity to enjoy the journey of a momentarily heavenly pleasure, only to regret it later. This thing happens again and again (and again) in repeated cycles. In some cases, I manage to overcome the pleasure intentions of body with my mind and heart. Nevertheless, it is the body, at most of times, that vanquishes all the will, determination and feeble motivation for a pleasure of its own. It is that noxious thing (though i fall for it often) called laziness that is ingrained so deep, I think, coming out of it, would be a way too onerous.                  I have a full knowledge on the laziness

Are you a multilingual who prefers one language over other for a specific task and another language for another task? Do you always use a language in a certain environment and a different language in some other environment even when you are not specified?  What might be on work here? First let us ask who is a multilingual person? Multilingualism according to some might be the ability to communicate in more than one language and for some it may be being able to more than just communicate in more than two languages. For some, being fluent simultaneously in several languages might also be a requirement. If being able to speak and understand more than one language is multilingual, more than half of the world's population is multilingual. If being fluent in more than one language simultaneously is multilingual a little less than half of the population is multilingual. And if the requirement asks for you to know more than two different languages fluently the share decreases to between

                                                              Novels were the obscure part of my life until I was in my eleventh grade. Before that, all space of my thought revolved around the books prescribed to complete my study. There was only a tiny element of literature I was growing up with and that was through the English books. That tiny element of literature in no particular way, at those times fascinated me. I just read it without a fair imagination it should have (as I read through those old texts of literature today, they still present me a wonderful beauty of words) in those days. I, like any common folks, did the so called "right thing" in those days, we just needed to pass the exams and we did it fairly without comprehending the richness of words portrayed in those tiny sheets of paper. Our English teacher, to my present-day imagination, could not indulge or motivate me. Or Perhaps, he was a good motivator, I had no alacrity for it. Or, perhaps my mind was

Learning has always been an incessant and integral  part of my life. I starting to take interest in podcasts when one of my cousin brothers shared that he listens to it everyday while cooking. This was a nice way of making a quotidian work interesting. I started listening to it before going to sleep and it acted as a soporific agent and I was learning something new everyday. Some of the podcasts I used to listen in my early days were Freakonomics radio, Hidden brains, Ted radio hour, invisbilia. Listening to this I always had a thought at the back of my head, can I make a podcast.  I was in search of doing something creative at that time. I used to record myself talking in English in my phone just to see how my accent, voice was like. I was also thinking about starting a youtube channel, maybe about photography, or some educational videos. So at this time I was juggling with different ideas but none quite took shape. Once I had pitched this idea of podcast to my then girlfriend, s