Bridging Knowledge Systems, Technology & Conscious Living
Physicist turned knowledge management practitioner, social entrepreneur, dedicated S. N. Goenka Vipassana practitioner, and author of "Know Your Fear: A Journey from ‘I’ to ‘i’"
For more than two decades I've built the systems that help people share what they know — websites, archives, training programs, and film — and, alongside that, built businesses rooted in Nepali craft and agriculture: rugs, tea, and coffee. More recently, a long-standing Vipassana practice has turned that same attention inward.
Core practice and mindful anchor
Vipassana practitioner
Learned during COVID-19 lockdown within the S. N. Goenka Vipassana tradition, Anapana Sati and later Vipassana meditation anchor my daily life and writing. Rather than treating meditation as theory, I try to carry it into decision-making, leadership, and everyday moments.
What I work on
Six threads that keep showing up across the last 25 years — mostly the same question asked in different settings: how do you help people find and use what an organization already knows?
- Built the collaborative authoring platform behind the Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment (HIMAP), letting authors and reviewers across chapters work simultaneously on one document.
- Designed the framework for HIMALDOC, ICIMOD's open-access repository, built on Invenio.
- Proposed the linking framework for the Himalayan University Consortium, connecting member libraries through a single access point.
Experience
A mix of running my own ventures and, before that, eighteen years building out ICIMOD's knowledge and web infrastructure from the ground up.
Director
Aroma Coffee
May 2023 — present
Overseeing direction for the company's coffee operations, with a focus on Himalayan coffee — trading, sourcing, and commercial distribution.
Founder
2021
A U.S.-based startup bringing meditation, yoga, and handcrafted spiritual products abroad such as metal singing bowls.
Chairman
Samriddhi Krishi Anusandhaan Tatha Bikaash (Samriddhi Agriculture)
March 2018 — present
A passive partner and advisor, guiding the strategic vision for sustainable agriculture investment and the expansion of high-value produce across Nepal.
Chairman
Handknots Nepal
March 2018 — 2024
A hand-knotted rug and handmade pashmina business exporting to international markets, alongside its Rug for Me line. Closed in 2024 — a choice to stop working with wool and other animal-derived materials, out of not wanting to support animal exploitation.
Knowledge Management, Multimedia and Web Officer
January 2000 — March 2018
Eighteen years across six roles, starting as a Networking and Training Assistant and rising through Officer for Central Asia, IYM Activities Assistant, Systems Manager, and Knowledge Management and Web Specialist.
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Physics
Tri-Chandra Campus, Kathmandu
November 1997 — February 2000
Coordinator
CORExpress — bimonthly computer magazine
November 1997 — February 2000
Technical background
Over 20 years working across the Microsoft Office suite, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, and Acrobat, with working knowledge of After Effects. Comfortable implementing open-source systems — document management, surveys, content management, project management, e-commerce, and calendaring — several of which are still running at ICIMOD. Also picked up hardware troubleshooting, computer assembly, and web and mail server configuration along the way.
Training
Education
Affiliation
Lions Club of Kathmandu Bagmati — established 1987, still serving communities in need more than 30 years on. Served as Club President in the Lionistic year 2020/21.
Writing
Short pieces on knowledge management and media, written between 2005 and 2012.
On why social platforms let people share first-hand information in real time, and pass it on instantly to wider networks — something older broadcast media could never do.
Makes the case for pairing multimedia with "alternative media" — song, storytelling, street theatre — to reach communities that formal channels miss.
Argues that KM succeeds or fails on people, not tools — staff competence, institutional support, and motivation matter more than any platform.
A practical primer on narrowing down billions of pages to find exactly what you need, written before search got as good as it is today.
On the everyday habit of knowing who holds what expertise — and why writing that down, systematically, is the part most people skip.
Forthcoming book · 2026
Know Your Fear
A journey from "I" to "i"
What if the cage you built for safety is what's keeping you from peace? For years I lived inside a "golden cage" of prestige, haunted by a whisper: without this, who are you? Then my mother's health began to fade, and one quiet imperative cut through the noise: be with her, now.
Her passing deepened that walk into a full inward journey — a physicist and knowledge management practitioner turning the tool of observation onto his own mind. Written through years of Vipassana practice, the book traces fear to its source in the fragile, story-bound capital "I," and toward the quieter, humbler lowercase "i" beneath it.
- Break "the loop" — the mechanism where fear quietly becomes suffering
- See through the story of "I," the identity you've been protecting
- Practice surrender not as defeat, but as the strength to stop arguing with reality
- Use gratitude and conscious breathing as everyday paths back to peace