Utsuk Upreti

Finland does not introduce national exams until Grade 9, and its students consistently perform among the best in the world With the formation of the new government after the Gen-Z revolution, Nepal has been experiencing rapid policy changes. However, if it wants to achieve real and lasting progress, it cannot afford to undergo any changes that are short-sighted and implemented from a narrow point of view.

The moon is a graveyard, coated with the powder of our white bones. I thought the opposite. That our bones were made by the white powder that coats the moon. What our father thought, neither I nor my sister knew. All we knew was that we needed to climb on the roof, be still and gaze at the moon for an hour every night, or risk being an object of our father’s disappointment.

I put my glasses on a nightstand before I sleep. My father silently enters my room with feather footsteps, picks up my glasses, cleans them with his microfiber cloth, and puts them back. He does this every night after he thinks I've fallen asleep. But I watch him, cleaning them constantly until the last remaining, barely noticeable dirt is gone off the lenses. My father scrubbed my skin during the shower till I was 13.