Dr Bishnu Maya Pariyar, a noted Nepali-American social activist, got featured in a government school curriculum in the 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 be implemented 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 Gorkha district of Nepal. Belonging to a Dalit family, she had to struggle hard to challenge caste-based discriminations majorly characterized by untouchability in the Nepali society.
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