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  Experience of watching drama at Mandala Theatre Dramatic situations !!😂 I am very fond of watching live drama at the theatre. Mandala Theatre in Kathmandu, Nepal, has been a place I have wanted to visit several times, but I was unable to manage my time. On 12th January 2025, I finally got the chance to watch a drama named Hari Hajurba . It was the last show of the play, and I was fortunate to get a ticket a day before from the box office. On 11th January, I went to check if I could get a ticket for that day, but it wasn’t possible. As a result, I had to buy a ticket at a premium price for the following day. I went alone on the 12th, arriving 45 minutes early and unsure how to pass the time while waiting for the play to start. During that time, I captured some videos and photos that I would like to share here: I supported to capture few photos of a group as requested by them for which I also asked them to capture a photo of mine. This is basically a give and take between us. But ...

Photo 1: A couple in Surkhet seeding maize by using bullock driven plough. It is one of the traditional practices followed by smallholder farmers in mid-hills of Nepal (photo credit: Sagar Kafle). This photo was captured during visit to Surkhet in 2016. Photo 2: Farm yard manure heaps on the tilled crop fields in Surkhet. This is a common practice farmers have been adopting since long years back to nurture the soils. However, exposing farm yard manure for longer time reduces the efficacy of manure because of nutrient loss (photo credit: Sagar Kafle). This photo was taken during field visit to Surkhet in 2024 under the Mixed Farming Systems Initiative of CGIAR.  Photo 3: A farmer in rural village in mountain region of Nepal ploughing the crop field by using mini tiller (photo source: Nepal Agricultural Machinery Entrepreneurs Association). This photo was posted in Facebook by NAMEA president.  

Article Review The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs (Isaacson, 2012)   Preface: Walter Isaacson, an American author, journalist and professor, wrote a biography on Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of the Apple company, after his death in 2011. Steve Jobs is appreciated for his unchallenging leadership in the business field globally and praised as a game changer  (Steinwart & Ziegler, 2014) . In the biography, Isaacson described 14 leadership practices adopted by Steve Jobs which are considered to be imitated by every leader in any organization. This review is done on the article written by the same author in Harvard Business Review under the topic ‘The Real Leadership Lessons of Steve Jobs’ as a narrative interpretation of the biography. In this review, a brief restating of the facts is done, and a critical analysis is carried out to add up a knowledge brick to leadership development and broadly in organization management. The author mentions four import...