Dedicated to Nepal and the Nepalis

This past week, yours truly spent some spare time studying about about and thinking about the following things.  Orientalism: Edward W Said's seminal book points that Orientalism is a western construct. Its premise, as far as yours truly understands, is that Western scholars involved in the study of this construct take orientals as an inferior race, as peoples, who need to be saved by westerners as they don't know what is good for them and what is not.  Said's Orientalism is centred around the biased, preconceived view of the Islamic world, seats of ancient civilisation like Egypt and Syria. Said, citing Western scholars' works, points that the latter do not take oriental men and women in high esteem. In the eyes of these scholars, the Orient is far inferior in comparison to the Occident.  Edison vs Tesla: Listening to the National Geographic documentary on the two great inventors -- Thomas Alba Edison and Nikola Tesla -- was indeed enlightening for yo...