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 Mangena, a divine act done by the creator themselves to let one held their head high. The book gets on the journey to find out through the courses of studying the Nepalese history, analyzing the fallacies in those history writing, who wrote the history and how they led the nation the way it is now. All these quests to ask us the readers as a nation whether we owe any Mangena to our fellow countrymen. Author, Yuga Pathak begins with the writings of the history in the country and, lays how it was always a particular ethnic-centric approach of the study, the sheer disregard to the diversity and the role of the elites. The book tries to make us think about our approach to development, how we are always in journey to conquest it but continuously failing to realize depth of it, the scale of foreign-aid dependence the country has risen to. The book has tried to differentiate the knowledge and wisdom, and where do the Nepalese stand on these matters. How a bureaucrat, though a person with...

I am no expert on how to read or what to read. But I am slowly learning that reading really changes our perspective towards the different aspects of life and lives. The place where I come from, lacks the reading culture; hence, children are not particularly motivated or inspired to read more; they are no told there are more books outside the school books.  There is no doubt schools and colleges give us knowledge; knowledge to comprehend things and make inventions and create, but reading books outside the course gives one the perspective of the outside world. Reading makes us realize how tiny we are; how insignificant a single perspective is in a course.  Reading has me realize, how hard it is write things; articulate your opinion and make sense out of it. I came to respect writers for their ideas, opinions and, try to write myself (even though I have no skill for it). Making sense out of articulations, properly citing reasonings, reading more enough to make sense out of own's ...