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Researching from Kathmandu Is Not an Abstract Idea to Me

I did not start thinking about research from Kathmandu as an identity statement. It entered my life as a practical condition. It was the place from which I was reading, missing deadlines, catching up, trying again, taking buses, saving papers offline, and learning how much distance can sharpen your eye instead of only slowing you down.

Kathmandu Diary10 min readMar 12, 2026
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Jan 19, 20257 min readCHiPSAL 2025
CHiPSAL 2025

Devanagari Benchmarks Are Three Problems, Not One

A research note on our CHiPSAL paper about Devanagari language identification, hate speech detection, and hate-target detection, written around one core argument: shared script does not turn those tasks into one coherent modeling problem.