About
Hosted by Pikam and Umesh
We are
Nepalese
immigrants living in the US, immigrated to the US for graduate school and latched ourselves into this
hodgepodge of a society. Our story is quite trivial, hence the name
Banal
.
The attention economy is not conducive to mundane experiences of people, but we feel quite the opposite.
We (as in you the reader and us the hosts) heard same old stories growing up, had similar trails and
tribulations. Most importantly, we are shaped by a set of common, not so interesting experiences but
somehow we are oblivious to the fact these prosaic endeavors are what matter the most in life. To that
end, discovering and highlighting golden nuggets in intuitively uninspiring stories of people is the
whole point of this little experiment of ours.
We encourage you to engage with us and live vicariously through our episodes.
People
