Kumudini is passionate about the arts and education.

A founding member of Shikshya Foundation Nepal, her experience as an educationist and her conviction in the regenerative ability of the arts have been integral to the Foundation’s extensive contribution towards the inclusion and expansion of the arts in public education programs. 

As a child, Kumudini often sought and found solace in fictional characters. In later decades, she rediscovered her love for books as she spent her time obsessively reading to and with children in varied classrooms, including her own two children.

Her long standing relationship with children’s literature endures as the foundation for much of Kumudini’s work today, and her personal experiences have fostered a particular interest in mentoring and facilitating voices that have often been relegated to the margins. She tries her best to practise the kind of care that is required to sensitively hold space for other people’s stories.

Kumudini leads the Hamro Ramailo Katha Project at Open Learning Exchange Nepal: a social benefit organization dedicated to enhancing education quality and access through the integration of technology in public schools. Her work at OLE Nepal brings her closer to stories and storytellers of many indigenous Nepali languages and experiences. 

After decades as an art collector and an enthusiastic supporter of emerging artists, she is now a part of Kalā Kulo, an initiative working towards archiving and researching visual practices.

Kumudini also serves as Director for Education at Bright Horizon Foundation and is a board member at Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Centre Nepal.

With Narrative Practices and Ideas, Kumudini has finally discovered a community where she no longer feels like an anomaly and finds resonance in “It has been liberating to know that all of us actually have some authorship to change the ways our experiences have been covert.”