Navin Shakya

Opinions

  • From enthusiast to observer

    My first smartphone was the Nokia Lumia 625, a beautiful Windows Phone that arrived at a time when Microsoft’s mobile platform was already struggling. Everyone complained about the lack of popular apps, but honestly, it never bothered me. For the first time in my life, I had a touchscreen phone that could take surprisingly good…

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  • 26 August 2026

    I keep hoping this is somehow a terrible dream. That I will wake up and find that everyone is safe and that everyone has simply gone back to work as usual.

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  • A lady rider

    Don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t worried because she was a woman, nor because I thought she was weak.

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  • My journey through Kathmandu’s cinema halls

    I watched Odyssey a few days ago, and something about sitting in that dark, comfortable hall got me thinking backward instead of forward.

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  • The menu I couldn’t read

    I’m just a food lover with very specific, hard-won tastes, and a healthy respect for anything I can pronounce.

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  • Value of human life

    I experienced a trip that quietly reshaped how I think about the value of human life and what we are missing.

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  • Graduating to a different kind of wisdom

    Early in my career, my appetite for formal training was bottomless. I remember that version of myself fondly but I don’t quite recognise him anymore.

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  • Modern tools, outdated thinking

    We upgraded our tools, but not our thinking. A dangerous gap is emerging between high-tech gear and the skills to use it.

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  • Kathmandu and the Twilight Zone

    Watching The Twilight Zone hits differently from Kathmandu. The 1960s America it shows felt futuristic, while Nepal was a valley of quiet towns.

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  • This one felt different

    Maybe it’s another false dawn. Maybe not. But for the first time in a long while, it actually felt like the start of something.

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