It can be done in collaboration with students and researchers based in various places.

We don’t have a strong tradition of holding personal papers in public archives or repositories.

Nepal needs more diverse historical works on schooling that go beyond state-centric perspectives.

Our universities can engage in larger-scale crowdsourcing to enhance their library holdings.

Universities that cannot recruit desired faculty are not autonomous institutions.

It is essential to provide a nurturing research environment to those trying to be honest academics.

Depoliticising VC appointment cannot clear the structural rot that has besieged Nepal’s oldest and biggest university.

Did the Nepali public at large feel like they were members of a more sovereign country after 1923?

Faculty in Nepal’s universities should give this idea serious consideration.

Our higher education institutions lack serious teaching opportunities in academic writing.

There is demand for discussions not just in the Valley but outside as well.

As the first order of business, all the political parties should agree to stop the ‘bhagbanda’ practice.

Nepal’s universities should remove barriers that restrict the possibilities for obtaining higher education.

Among their activities, we see a predisposition towards poorly organised conferences.

Knowledge-generating entities should create an endowment fund to sustain themselves.