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If you could travel back in time, what period would you go to?

The good old days of Thamel, around 2007-2010. I was around people who were passionate about music and got a chance to learn a lot from them. I probably lived the best part of my best life doing things I loved the most and playing music with the best.

Do you ever post inspirational quotes on social media?

Not really but making guitar tutorial videos for the followers of Nepali Guitar Tutorial is my everyday inspiration.

What genre would a movie made on your life be? Who would play you?

Haven’t really thought to that extent but it would definitely have to be a musical. Btw, I would suggest the producers drop such ideas and save money for their own good.

Which Nepali celebrity annoys you the most?

None, because I think people are just being themselves even if we don't understand their way or nature. Everybody is trying their best to survive and I don't have any problem with that. 

What advice you got has been the most rewarding?

Honestly, none. So far I've gotten more criticisms than sound advices.

What is better: academic certificates or experience?

I would say experience but the world wants your certificates. 

What is the best gift you have been given?

My two sons are the best gifts I’ve been given. Also, the very first guitar that I owned, which was gifted to me by my friend Sunil Limbu.

Do you wish anything to come back into fashion?

Not very conscious about fashion, so I don’t know how to answer this.

On a scale of 1-10 how funny would you say you are?

I try to be 10 but I think I'm just 4. Maybe because I’m too straight :)

If you had to see yourself as an animal, which one would it be?

I used to be agile like a cheetah but now I’m lazy like a panda. Hopefully, I won’t look like one in the future.

If you could have anything, what would you wish for?

Time and money to constantly travel without any limitations.

First celebrity crush?

None. I am a boring person when it comes to crushes and idols.

What is one thing we would never guess about you?

Mood swings.

Dawn or dusk?

Both, big time. I enjoy every bit of these two times of the day. My pictures on FB/Insta are proof.

If you could travel back in time, what period would you go to?

My People’s Campus days.

The most interesting celebrity you’ve interviewed?

I won’t say a celebrity but a personality. He is George Abraham. This was during my Delhi days, when I worked in television production. He is visually impaired since childhood and the man behind blind cricket in India. It was an interesting shoot.

What was the worst style choice you ever made?

I keep making them, there’s no count :)

If you could join any past or current music group, which would you want to join?

The Midnight riders!!!? Hehehe…Ahem!! Ahem!!! To play alongside you!!

What is the last TV show you binge-watched?

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ and ‘Chicago Fire’. But I am not a very TV person, even though I have a career in television.

If you ruled over this country, what would be the first law you would introduce?

The law of having just four working days. But those four days should be intense working days. No lazying around.

Whenever you are driving to a crowded destination or a particularly popular shopping center in Kathmandu, one of your first concerns is whether the place has parking. If space isn’t available, you end up parking by the road—only to later find that traffic police has ‘locked’ your vehicle. Nor are many of the available pay-parking spaces well managed.

But a solution may be at hand. China’s Lutaida Company is coordinating with We Build, a Nepali construction-based company, to bring to you ‘Park Easy’. This is a vertical, rotating parking system in which the space normally taken up by two cars can accommodate around 12-20 cars. 

When a vehicle enters the system on the ground floor, it is immediately assigned a particular height for parking. The vehicle is then lifted up to that spot through by rotatory motion. And, when you have to take out your car, it is just a matter of flipping a switch again. The machine rotates and brings the car to the ground level. 

We Build Construction Service, Kathmandu is the sole authorized dealer for Park Easy in Nepal. Before Nepal, Park Easy has been installed in countries like China, Thailand, Singapore, Poland, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia.

The system is durable, too. The system’s service life is 50 years, according to Sukirti Sharma, Managing Director, who has played an instrumental role in bringing Park Easy to Nepal. It is the most space-efficient parking system, she claims, as a system can be set up in just 1.5-2 annas of land.

The other exciting feature of the system is that it can be easily dismantled and reinstalled somewhere else. And the installation happens instantaneously as well.

Sharma informs that Kathmandu would already have had three or four such installed systems where it not for the pandemic.

But how did the idea come to her? The civil engineer says she wanted to do something innovative in Nepal and started looking for inspiration abroad. It was then that she discovered Park Easy. “I think an innovative system like this can greatly reduce Kathmandu valley’s worsening congestion and parking problems,” she says.

Thus, in the first phase, We Build is targeting the Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Sharma claims that compared to what we normally pay for parking in Kathmandu, it will be 50-75 percent cheaper to park at the company’s installation.

The enterprising engineer is confident about her business model. As the initial investment can be recouped in 3-4 years, “it’s all profit for the rest of the system’s 50-year-life.”