Bishnu Maya Pariyar features in school curriculum in US

Kathmandu: Dr Bishnu Maya Pariyar, a noted Nepali-American social activist, now gets featured in a government school curriculum in Massachusetts state of the United States of America.

The government school curriculum for grade 7 in Massachusetts incorporates a chapter about Dr Pariyar under the subject of World’s History and Geography. Pariyar currently resides in the US. According to US-based journalist Pradeep Pariyar, the chapter to be assisted by video contents and slides includes eight slide shows introducing award-winning personality Dr Pariyar and about caste-based discrimination and untouchability in Nepal. It also incorporates a documentary ‘untouchable’ surrounding the life-struggle story of Dr Pariyar. The curriculum is to implement at all government-run schools in the state from the next academic session, it is said.

Pariyar was born on December 19, 1973, in Taklung, a village in the Gorkha district of Nepal. Belonging to a Dalit family, she had to struggle hard to challenge caste-based discrimination majorly characterized by untouchability in society. —