To be or not to be: A Pastoral boy’s Quest, Investment, and Identity Transformation
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Journal of Transformative Praxis, Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2026, -
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Reference: Neupane, Bharat Prasad. "To be or not to be: A Pastoral boy’s Quest, Investment, and Identity Transformation". Journal of Transformative Praxis 2026 7 no. 1 (2026): -.
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ABSTRACT
This article reports an autoethnographic account of a pastoral boy from the Global South who enjoyed a relatively privileged life in the context of the hinterland, Nepal, underwent family upheavals and struggles during his teenage, imagined himself being a certain kind of person and invested in realizing the imagined and idealized future. Specifically, the article narrates the privileges I enjoyed during my childhood, my father’s untimely demise, and the economic crisis in the family during my teenage, my engagement in yoga, meditation, and psychocybernetics to overcome grief and frustration, and extensive reading of spiritual and philosophical books in the quest for meaning in life, investment, and identity transformation. The article narrates my meaningful, transformative journey from a mischievous pastoral boy who walked uphill for almost an hour every day for secondary education to a professor at a university of repute where students from privileged communities in Nepal study.
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