Dharma Pup: Chapter Thirteen: A Crash Course in Nepali History

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Chapter Thirteen: A Crash Course in Nepali History

When Gyanendra was born in 1947, a court astrologer reportedly told his father, then the crown prince Mahendra, not to look upon Gyanendra because it would bring bad luck. The cursed baby was sent far away from his family and the palace to be raised by a grandmother.

Author’s Note

July 2012

If someone had told me, even six months ago, that I’d be writing a dog memoir, I would have marked them off as drunk or clueless, or both, and said, “Not gonna happen. There’s no way I’ll end up with a dog, let alone write a book about a dog.”

And here I am, with a dog, writing a book about a dog.

Most of the notes I took at the time of this story were To-Do lists along the lines of:

Call vet

Get Pup to walk all the way to corner

Buy rug shampoo

I’m grateful to the people who shared the adventure and helped jog my memory and fact-check the story. All errors are mine.