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The Nepal Digest Friday 3 March 95: Falgun 19 2051 BkSm Volume 36 Issue 3
Today's Topics:
1. TAJA_KHABAR - News From Nepal
2. KURA_KANI
Education - Re: TU neglected corners
Economics - Re: Nepali Taxpayers
3. JAN_KARI
Book Reviews - Social History of Nepal
Matrimonial
Greetings from Germany
Attention Nepali HAM Operators
A note of thanks to generous Nepalis
Attention Ex-Sidhartha Banasthali Students
4. Entertainment
Satire - Are you a part-time Nepali ?
5. SODH_PUCHH
More info on Nepal for Peace Corps Volunteer
6. KHOJ_KHABAR
Looking for Nepalis in Oxford, UK area
Ajay Malhotra looking for Bhushan Tuladhar
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* TND Board of Staff *
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* SCN Liaison: Rajesh B. Shrestha rshresth@black.clarku.edu *
* Consultant Editor: Padam P. Sharma sharma@plains.nodak.edu *
* TND Archives: Sohan Panta k945184@atlas.kingston.ac.uk *
* Book Reviews Columns: Pratyoush R. Onta ponta@sas.upenn.edu *
* News Correspondent Rajendra P Shrestha rajendra@dartmouth.edu *
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* +++++ Food For Thought +++++ *
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* "If you don't stand up for something, you will fall for anything" -Dr. MLK *
* "Democracy perishes among the silent crowd" - Sirdar Khalifa *
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From: gshah@st6000.sct.edu (Gopal Shah)
Subject: Matrimonial
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 10:06:53 -0500 (EST)
We got several responses from our previous posting in matrimonial section.
Encourage from those responses, this gentleman also wants to
find his future wife thru TND. Good job Rajpal! You are doing real
dharma-karma for these lonely people.
Descriptions:
Name: T. Thapa
Age group: 25 - 30 yrs.
Height: 5'11"
Profession: student (Technical field)
Weight: 185 lbs.
Slogan: "Just say no to drugs, alcohol, and smoke."
Qualities: serious, hardworking, honest, perseverance
Looking for:
friendly, serious, responsible lady
Age: 20 plus yrs.
Education: undergraduate preferred
Interested parents/candidates can corresponds to:
5555 Roswell Rd., Apt # V - 9
Atlanta, GA 30342, USA
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 18:04:33 -0500 (EST)
From: Ashutosh Tiwari <tiwari@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: Satire: Are You A Part-Time Nepali?
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Following Pratyoush Onta's lead, I would like to 'recycle' some of
my own written-and-published-in-Kathmandu-or-elsewhere writings on
TND/SCN. Most of these writings are basically amateurish attempts at
humor and satire -- a self-conscious effort to copy such masters of the
craft as Woody Allen, Art Buchwald, James Thruber, Bahirab Aryal,
Keshab Pindali and many, many others whose writings I admire.
What follows is one FICTIONAL satire that first
appeared in the Weekly Independent in Kathmandu in early 1993. I have
edited it here and there for TND. Thanks to AB for help with typing
this in.
Are You A Part-Time Nepali?
by ashu
Traveling across the United States, one gets to meet many unusual
Nepalis who, under usual circumstances, are difficult to find in Nepal.
Brilliant geneticists mapping out chromosomes at Princeton and
Berkeley. Self-made millionaires (yes, there are some!) in Ipswich,
Massachusetts and Beverly Hills (90210), California, discussing the pros
and the cons of retiring early to marbled villas in Hattiban in Pharping,
near Cat.Man.Do. Silver-haired international civil servants, reminiscing
their early struggles to get those cushy, tax-exempt and
virtually-secure-for-life development-posts at the UN and the World Bank.
Extra-friendly medico Daddies and "Americanized" Mommies,
tempting eligible Nepali males in the area to court their
as-Nepali-as-pepperoni-pizza daughters. Slick curio-merchants, hawking
Bhaktapur-made metal wares as "Made-in-Tibet" exotica at ethnic trade
fairs. And, a bunch of fresh-faced recent arrivals, sweating hard for 80
hours a week in some French bakery cafe, wondering why nobody had ever
warned in Nepal that lives in the US would not be as effortless and
glamorous as those led by the cast of The Bold And The Beautiful.
But, by far, the most endearing and the most enduring of our
species in America is Homo Partus-Chrono Nepalicus. Or, in plain
English, Mr or Miss Part-Time Nepali (PTN).
What makes someone a Part-Time Nepali? Sadly, there exist no
criteria. In theory, a valid Nepali passport is all that one needs
to be one. But since, in practice, rubber-stamps on the passport rarely
separate the PTN gems from the coarse masses, a more subtle prerequisite
stands: Actions and more actions of the mouth and the attitude. If that
is not clear, THREE idiosyncratic profiles below provide insights
into things that charge Nepal's most remarkable representatives in
in this great Melting Pot known as Amrika:
1) REMOTE-CONTROLLED DEVELOPMENT: Our PTNs are visibly embarrassed
that Nepal is still in the Stone Age. So their lives' mission is to
"Develop" Nepal by running workshops and seminars and printing political
newsletters in LA, New York, Boston and especially in DC on issues oh-so-
Developmental. To that end, they hurl themselves into organizing, writing
about and even speaking on just about every topic from the generic
("safeguarding Nepali Democracy") to the prescriptive ("Top Ten Ways to
Boost the GNP").
What is boring, however, is NOT the same-old topic (translation:
politics, politics and nothing but politics!) that dominate their every
discussion, but the same-old solution that gets proposed: The government
should THIS, the government should do THAT. Only when the government does
THIS and THAT would Nepal be lit up by the high-voltage smile of Desh-Bikas.
Now, you might point out that even other Nepalis throw in that
sort of cure-all wisecrack all the time. But remember: while others do it
out of sheer frustration, these PTNs do it to show that they are "active
Nepalese in Amrika". Their intention is that when the favored political
party (translation: Nepali Congress) wins the elections in Nepal, they
could then be handsomely tapped for high posts in Cat.Man.Do for their
"sharpened-in-Amrika expertise and sleepless concerns for Nepali raj-niti
while abroad."
Else, how to explain that even with more education, better
professional skills, bigger political clouts and mega-bucks at the Savings
Banks, these PTNs prefer the talking-route to desh ko bikas? It's because,
for them, Development (with capital D) is all guff and bull-sessions,
bon vivant awash in Chardonnay and social high-fives. And development
(with small d) is just manual labor, best left in the hands of "the
average Ram Bahadur back in Nepal".
With such inspiring attitudes, is it any wonder that the
PTNs, so "concerned" about Nepal and so zealous about their political
credentials, rarely discuss RETURNING (to at least make an effort) to
fight off the challenges assaulting their oh-so-missed "Nepal Aama"? Not
at all. To modify JFK's idea, so busy are the PTNs in Amrika saying what
Nepal should do for Development that they never seem to ask what THEY
can do IN Nepal FOR development.
2) WHAT? A NEPALI HUSBAND?: The PTN female in America is as
elusive and evasive as the Abominable Snow-Woman. Though from a
privileged echelon of the Kathmandu society with usually, but not
necessarily, a St. Mary's accent ("Timi ta kasto MEAN, chi!" types!),
she loves advancing her status as "an oppressed victim from that
primitive, sexist, male-dominated, feudal Third World rut called Nepal".
Few know that behind her fluttering eye-lids and sweet, innocent Binaca
smiles, sizzles her razor-sharp cunning.
She's, for example, adept at extracting sympathy from liberal,
middle-class White Americans by whining contrived tales of: a) all sorts
of gender discrimination she had faced and endured while growing up in "poor,
unempowered, male-dominated Dumre Gaun in Charikot"; b) she feels so "lost
in this great, big country States" that she still gets very home-sick, even
after 10 years in America; and, c) she needs constant help: Help in finding
an apartment, help in paying her credit card bills, and help in dining out
at fine establishments at someone else's expense, and help in letting her
cry on your shoulders when she's having rough times with people you
hardly know. And on and on . . . marches her help-wanted list.
Only one area in which she needs no help seems to be her dismissal
of Nepali guys as "boring, childish idiots", while dressing up in black
velvet for her "handsome and cute" European suitors. Why she lives a
double life as "a fiesty feminist" in front of 'sojho' Nepali keta-haru,
yet appears as "a coy and shy Himalayan maiden" to her western friends
is an issue best left for psychiatrists.
3) MY ETHNICITY: YOUR DISCOMFORT: Being Nepali is not enough for
some PTNs. They demand more precision in defining who they are. As such,
they look for creatively cute, if eye-brow-raising, ways to assert their
ethnic pride.
One PTN I know, for example, insists on speaking Newari with his
miserable Significant Other, POINTEDLY in front of bahuns, byasis and
chettris at dinner. There is, of course, nothing wrong with this PTN's
using his mother tongue in front of those unable to distinguish between
janay dhunla from sunka chon. But while ALL thoughtful Newars and other
'ethnic' Nepalis usually provide helpful translations for lively
dinner-conversations, these few ethnic PTNs deliberately alienate their
other Nepali friends, among other things, by condemning them to a silent
dinner.
Still, what makes such PTNs "victims" of identity crisis is this.
Whenever occasions arise to put on Nepali dances in front of the western
audience, they rush in to swing to the beats of Tamang Selo, Jyauray rhythms
and Rodi music, claiming "Hey, that's OUR Nepali culture, you know!"
Great! But why this sudden broad-mindedness? Why this abrupt love
for "Nepali culture"? Just to show it to the westerners? After all, if
things "Nepali", however one views it, have been, for better or worse,
parts of THEIR heritage too, then what are they trying to achieve by
inhabiting some separatist linguistic-islands IN FRONT OF other Nepalis
who do not know a word of these particular PTNs' mother language?
The truth, of course, is that such PTNs and others are only shifting
their identities to suit each occasion. With the Americans, they are the
exotic "Nepalese from the land of the Everest" (Never mind that the only time
they've seen the Everest is on an RNAC poster!). With another group,
they are "the poor, persecuted minorities (or majorities) from Nepal".
Yet, with fellow-Nepalis of all stripes, they are "the exclusive and
marginalized victims of [thanks to Dor Bahadur Bista] 'fatalism'".
MORAL: Such consummate charmers make up the contradictory,
confusing world of Part-Time Nepalis. Whether or not, these PTNs are, as
described by a friend, "Nepalis with First-world lifestyles,
second-rate achievements and third-class mentality" is beyond my
understanding, judgment, experience and even taste. But having lived
both in Nepal and the US, the one MAJOR lesson that I have learnt is this:
For all the fun one makes of the PTNs, the sad, unvarnished truth
is that their hypocrisies and their inconsistent attitudes/values exist
well and alive, in varying proportions, in each and every one of us,
the rest of the Nepalis, who I guess would now be Full-Time Nepalis
(FTNs) -- no matter where we reside, and no matter what we do . . .
and so on.
Long live that Part-Time Nepalihood in each and every one of us!
The End
NB: Like I said, this is a part-time attempt at writing FICTIONAL
satire/humor. Any resemblance to any Nepali, living or dead or not yet
born, in Nepal or elsewhere, is oh-my-God co-incidental. Feel free to
send in your comments on this to TND or SCN.
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 13:13:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: GIRI J N <J.N.Giri@city.ac.uk>
To: The Nepal Digest <Nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Seeking TND readers and Nepali students in Oxford area
I am very keen to get in touch with neapli students and readers in oxford
area as I have to go there for a visit as part of my research.
I would really appreciate if you could drop me a line pronto please!!
If any Nepali students or TND readers know of anyone in Oxford, please by
all means email, Thanks!!!!!
Joti (J.N.Giri@city.ac.uk)
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Date: 28 Feb 1995 17:34:17 EST
Subject: SCHOOL REQUESTS EMAIL FROM IND
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
From: STJERNC@Citadel.edu
Help, please. The fifth and sixth grade geography classes at Pinewood Prep
School in South Carolina are studying India and the Himalayan Mountain
countries. We would appreciate receiving any email from friends in India,
Tibet, Bhutan, or Nepal. TIA
Chuck Stjern
Lower School Director <Stjernc@Citadel.edu>
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Date: 28 Feb 95 20:29:19 EST
From: Rajendra.P.Shrestha@Dartmouth.EDU (Rajendra P. Shrestha)
Subject: News2/23-27
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
February 23
India and Nepal to hold talks next month
Excerpts from PTI and Xinhua reports
India and Nepal will hold talks next month on the question of
reviewing the 45-year old treaty of peace and friendship.
The Indian foreign secretary, K. Srinivsan, told newsmen that the
two countries have not yet decided at what level the talks should be
held.
"We are ready to review the treaty if they ( Nepal) want it," he
said. "We are yet to probe what exactly is in the mind of Nepal," he
said, expressing the hope that next month's meeting would make things
clear.
The new government in Nepal has expressed some reservations on the
continuance of the treaty in its present form saying some of its
provisions have been overtaken by time. It had cited the security
clause as an example. This clause entailed India and Nepal to inform
each other in the event of any threat to them.
February 24
Nepal, Bhutan to hold talks on Refugees
Excerpts from Xinhua and UPI reports
The fifth meeting of Nepal-Bhutan joint ministerial committee will
be held in Kathmandu starting Feb. 27, according to the Foreign
Affairs Ministry. The nepali delegation will be led by home minister
k.p. sharma oli and the bhutanese side will be led by home minister
lyongo dago tshering.
Minister, Deputy attacked with Stones
Excerpts from Reuters and AFP reports
Suspected student activists attacked a senior minister and a
legislator with stones in separate incidents on Thursday and Friday.
The official RSS news agency said Law and Justice Minister Subhash
Chandra Nemwang escaped unhurt when his car was pelted with stones by
suspected members of the Nepal Students Union (NSU) on Friday.
It said a deputy for the ruling Unified Marxist-Leninist Communist
Party was hurt when he was hit by stones in a separate attack on
Thursday.
An NSU official denied his group's involvement in the incidents.
Trouble has been brewing between the NSU and pro-government student
groups over the site where their flags will be displayed at a public
function.
On Tursday, baton-wielding police broke up an anti-communist
demonstration by the students and arrested 3O people, a spokesman for
the pro-democratic NSU said.
"The communist government is terrorizing the pro-democrat students"
by siding with pro-leftist groups who battled the NSU earlier, the
spokesman said.
A Home Ministry source denied the allegation, saying the government
had simply tried to stop fighting among students.
The NSU and the pro-leftist all- Nepal National Free Students Union
clashed at the government-run Tri-Chandra College's law campus,
injuring some pro-democratic students, NSU President Narayan Prasad
Saud told AFP.
Saud said the leftists had stoned NSU members, who were conducting
pre-election canvassing in the hotly contested college-level free
students union election.
February 27
JPMA to aid Nepal on production of anti-TB agent
COMLINE report
The Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association announced on
February 14 an agreement to introduce necessary technologies to Nepal
Drug Limited so that the company can produce in Nepal the
anti-TB/antibiotic rifampicin from early 1996 as a part of JPMA's
international cooperation program. In an agreement with a JPMA
representative dispatched to Nepal in January this year the
cooperation includes the gratis supply of bulk pharmaceuticals for
rifampicin while the Ministry of Health of His Majesty's Government of
Nepal will provide for the other expenses for local production
including those for adjuvants, packaging and processing. During 1992
and 1993 JPMA supplied Nepal with 1,350,000 rifampicin capsules rising
to 1,500,000 capsules during 1994 to support Nepal's anti-tuberculosis
program as a part of the WHO's program to encourage short-term
chemotherapies. During 1995, free supplies of rifampicin to Nepal are
expected to amount to more than 1,200,000 capsules. The latest
local-production agreement is a result of a 1994 feasibility study
which indicated a need to assure sufficient short-term chemotherapy
for over 10,000 people leading the royal health ministry to conclude
that the effort should move into a secondary stage toward independent
production.
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From: ponta@sas.upenn.edu (Pratyoush R. Onta)
Subject: Book Review
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu (tnd)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 21:20:56 -0500 (EST)
The following was published in SPOTLIGHT dated 6 May 1994
Social History of Nepal by Tulasi Ram Vaidya, Tri Ratna Manandhar and
Shankar Lal Joshi. 1993. New Delhi: Anmol Publications. Price: Rs. 640
by Pratyoush Onta
The 343-page book under review here, written by three senior
historians from Tribhuvan University, is a kind of social history that
historian Eric Hobsbawm once called a 'residual view of history.' He
suggested that this kind of history deals with a number of human
activities that defy classification except in such terms as 'manners,
customs, everyday life.'
I say this because this book is largely a descriptive omnibus on a
variety of subjects such as people, social structure, family system,
habitational sites, position of women in Nepal, food habits, dress and
ornaments, social entertainment, and education. The strength of this book
lies in the encyclopedia-like manner in which information about the above
topics are presented. However the authors have not provided any
analytical framework and therefore an information over-kill cannot be
ruled out.
For reasons of space, I have organized my comments around only a few
themes covered in this book. In discussing our social structure, the
authors describe, among others, the varna system and changes in it
throught the long centuries between the eras of the Licchavis and the
Shahs and in particular, Jung Bahadur's 1854 code. While the varna and
allied caste schemes are important aspects of the ancient and medieval
social structures, to reduce the latter to a hierarchy only based on the
notion of ritual purity would be to engage in a form of Orientalist
essentialism.
As it has become increasingly clear caste was almost always a
politics of hierarchy within a social structure in which other notions of
authority, honor, and status were equally important. Caste and the
so-called out-of-the-world renouncers have been shown to be very much
linked with state power. Therefore I doubt if the social structure can be
described only in the terms of varna and allied caste schemes. The
completeness of varna and caste classifications, as much as that of the
'national caste hierarchy' designed in the 1854 code is always an
ideological assertion from a position of power.
Historical accounts as this one, based on the blueprints of such
systems designed by ruling classes, tend to be limited about what they can
say about the social structure of past societies as experienced by people
occupying various social strata. Perhaps an analogy will clarify my
point. If we were to write a history of our social structure during the
Panchayat era based on the editorials of the Gorkhapatra that glorified a
class-less, caste-less and exploitation-less society, it would obviously
be a very limited and unfaithful account.
I feel the limitations of such a project would be similar to those
carried out by Vaidya et al. when they discuss the social structure of the
past on the basis of normative and political texts and codes such as the
one from 1854. This limitation can also be seen in Vaidya and Manandhar's
earlier book on an important topic, Crime and Punishment in Nepal (1985).
It is also unclear to what extent these designs of rulers can be
said to have initiated change. To say, as in this book, that the 1854
code divided the people into four general classes is easy. To study its
internal logic, as done by Andras Hfer and others, is not that difficult
either. But unless we know how much of what was stipulated in that code
on the basis of that classification was actually implemented, we cannot
adequately assess its role in bringing about a change in our social
structure.
Furthermore even as a continuous process of Hinduisation of our
social structure is undeniable as is stated by the authors, we need to ask
some questions about it: since Hinduism is not a single monolithic thing,
what strands of Hinduism were propogated at different times and why? What
is the place of caste in Hinduism? Borrowing from recent anthropological
critiques of the "sanskritization" theme, we should ask what are the
contextual boundaries of the Hinduisation process? Like other modes of
upward social mobility, such a process takes place within a contested
political field whose own bearings need to be discussed.
The information presented on themes such as food habits, dress,
ornaments and entertainment, in the absence of any analytical framework,
appears in the form of discrete discussions that fail to provide a
conceptual breakthrough in the writing of our social history. The
authors' conclude that "the dress, ornaments, fashion ... can be said [to
have been] determined by the social status, political status, economic
condition and other factors." However social and political status need to
be constantly reinforced. Tastes in habiliment, food and leisure in turn
become the site in which the assertion of such status is exercised and
contested by historical actors.
So these practices associated with the body are not only
determined by one's status, one's status is determined by them as well.
The palaces of the Ranas and their attraction for foreign dress and
insignia happen to be the most well-known case in recent history but there
are others that await more complete documentation. The authors also
present a general treatment of the wretched conditions of women in our
society and of education from the period of the Licchavis until the end of
the Rana period.
In the conclusion they state that the Nepali society is 'tradition
bound.' They also conclude that Hinduism is largely responsible for
keeping the Nepali society stable and stagnant. The dichotomy between
tradition and modernity (defined always in relation to a putative 'West')
belongs to the rhetoric of modernization theory and has very little place
in any historical analysis.
Nepali society's stability - by which the authors implicity mean
the absence of revolutions, conflicts, cultural change and destruction -
is as much the concoction of scholars as it was of the rhetoric of the
Panchayat years. An impoverished social historical research agenda has
been largely responsible for the elision of knowledge on social conflicts
in our society.
This book comes without footnotes and an index. Like Anmol's
other publications, it is replete with uncountable number of editorial and
proof-reading errors. At Rs. 640 (a Kathmandu publisher told me that the
production cost for a book of this size could be at most Rs. 150), it is
unreasonably expensive.
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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 22:55:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Ashutosh Tiwari <tiwari@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: (fwd) Re: DEFINE.....Nepali Taxpayer, please (fwd)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
atuladhar@jack.clarku.edu writes:
>Nepali Taxpayer... Will someone define them?
Taxpayers' money is a collective term. Simply put, at any given time,
it refers to all the money (assets plus revenues plus foreign aid minus
money owed) that the Nepal government has at its disposal.
Since the government belongs to the people (i.e. democracy), the
money too belongs to the people. So the government is a sort of a custodian
of public money, and its function is to use that money 'well' for the
benefits of its citizens. [Let us leave the normative or ideological
questions of "benefits" aside for now]
The people here means all Nepalis who derive their political
rights from the nation's Constitution. This includes ALL citizens, the rich
and the poor, the propertied and the landless, and so on.
Let's not get hung up on who the taxpayers are and who are not.
That would be a futile exercise. Neal Cohen's recent posting
tells us how "backward" (from the western perspective) Nepal's system of
tax collection really is. On the other hand, scholars like M.C Regmi and
others have long shown that surplus extraction -- NOT judicious tax
policies --- over the last two centuries has been impoverishing the
Nepali public. (But Regmi was/is studying periods of Nepali history in
which there was no democracy to speak of.)
I think that the challenge facing us Nepalis today is how to
translate our constitutionally guaranteed political rights into practical
realities. I, for one, have no clear idea on how to meet this challenge,
but I think that the practice of thinking ourselves and all other
citizens as taxpayers (i.e. owners of the public money), and using that
identity to demand BETTER services and performances and HIGHER
accountability from our elected government would be a more effective
way to start appreciating and nourishing our democracy and thereby
strengthening the political rights of EVERY citizen..
Further comments, attacks are welcome.
namaste
ashu
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From: zzau025@rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de
Subject: hello
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 14:24:13 +0100 (MET)
Hello guys,
I am very happy to have an access to the 'Nepal Digest'. Well I am Rajendra
Aryal at the University of Hannover in Germany. We are only three Nepalis
here in Hannover and doing postgraduate studies in Geotechnical Enginee-
ring. But Germany has become a dream land for the DALALs who transport
Nepalis as refugees into Germany. There are more than 50 Nepalis in
Hannover and they had paid around 1.5 Lakhs to get transported into
Germany.
Nepal is unfortunately listed as one of the poorest country in the
World. The Germans have categorized Nepal not in the Third World,
but in the Fourth World. Now we are listed along with the countries
like Rwanda, Sudan or Mauritania where you can always find civil wars.
Nepali carpets are doing good business in Germany. But the price was
severly down last month. The people feel that these carpets are
made by the children. Thus they always try to make propaganda not to
buy our products.
What else should I write. It is actually 'langweilig'(boring) to live far away
here in Europe. We don't speak English here. The Germans don't appreciate
if you speak English. That's all for today. Bye and Tschuss!!
Auf Wiedersehen!
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 10:42:45 PST
To: A10RJS1@cs.niu.edu
From: "Ajay Malhotra" <malhotra@ichips.intel.com>
Subject: Would the real Bhushan Tuladhar stand up ?!!
Do you think you could look in your database to see if you
can find one 'Bhushan Tuladhar'; he used to be a student
at Cornell University in the 1987-1991 timeframe, and last
I heard, was working in Washington, DC. I'm interested in
getting a hold of him - he's an old colleague ... and I'd
like to know what he's upto.
My particulars:
Ajay Malhotra
222 SW Harrison St, 22C
Portland, OR 97201-5316
503-224-2574 (H)
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Ajay
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 15:30:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Nirmal Ghimirez <NGH42799Q236@DAFFY.MILLERSV.EDU>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: T.U. neglected corner
Do the members of the planning commission ever try to get some ideas or
suggesstions from Nepali intellectuals. When NGO's draft thir projects how many
intellectulas are involved? It is hard to define intellectuals,but we doknow
that T.U. is an old educational institution but unfortunately a neglected one
Especially of the irregularities in the part of teachers as well as students.
Secodly, I asked a professor why he taught out of T.U. as well. I was trying to
say that would it not be more effective if he spent more time in T.U.
He had a very honest answer. He said the salary was not enough although he was
a professor. He had to take some offcampus classes to make more money to
support his amily. I have heard many Professors complain about lack of
Research Facilities .The government is only concerned about businessmen when
they make their policy?They do not want the suggestion of intellectuals, and
they will not get anything material from that.
The V.C. trend is also much polticalized. Kedar Mathema was the first dynamic
V.C. who tried to make some changes. But the oppsitopn was always trying to
pull him down. So making the issue of cafteria they made a big fuss.
And another problem is are do V.C.'s have to belong to the ruling party.
Can't someone just become a V.C. because of his qualifications only.
So, maybe if we want to see T.U. in a better posotion then we must respect
more intellectuals and give them better chances. T.U. must mean an educational
institution and not a political AKADA.Thanks.Nirmal
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From: "Khatri, Sanjay" <khatri@msgate.columbiasc.ATTGIS.COM>
To: 'nepal' <nepal@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: RE: Girl from Nepal ready to smile
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 95 14:30:00 edt
I forwarded the compassionate story of Sushmita Sakya to a friend, who is a
plastic surgeon here at the University of South Carolina Medical school. He
is very interested in offering his services in Nepal and wants to know of
doctors or medical agencies that handle such humanitarian efforts.
Dr. Ram Kalus, a highly qualified plastic surgeon, is originally from Israel
(also from where he derives his hindu-like first name) and has an extremely
good track record of constructive plastic surgery. I have had the good
fortune of seeing him in action and since then my faith in the modern health
sciences has been strengthened. If anybody has a helpfull suggestion in
regards to helping Ram in his generous offer, please correspond with him at
Kalus@surgery.rmp2.scarolina.edu. You may help another Nepali boy or girl
smile.
Sanjay Khatri
PS: Mr. Sunil Shakya, if you have information on how to get in touch with
Dr. Kristin Stueber of the Baystate Medical Hospital, please provide it to
Ram.
Thanks
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1995 15:39:35 -0500 (EST)
From: V052M82Q@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu
Subject: KHOJ_KHABAR
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
Dear TND Readers:
I have recently been invited by the Peace Corps to teach English at a uni-
versity in Nepal. I have been reading TND for several months now to learn as much as possible about Nepal from an authentic source. I would appreciate any and all information about daily life in Nepal. I look forward to learning more
and thank you in advance for your contributions!
Monica Hornman (v052m82q@ubvms.buffalo.edu)
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Date: Wed, 1 Mar 1995 22:57:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ashutosh Tiwari <tiwari@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: Who says Nepalis are NOT generous?
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Anyone who runs a non-profit organization knows how difficult
it is to raise money to keep the organization running. Many great
ideas often have to be discarded because there is no money or little money.
In Boston, Massachusetts, the Greater Boston Nepali Community (GBNC)
is blessed with many generous Nepali patrons (most of whom are
just students or young professionals),who give liberally to their favorite
organization aka GBNC. It is their generosity that makes many of Boston's
Nepali activities possible, fun and creative.
So, today, on March First '95, the GBNC would like to THANK these
Boston contributors for donating hundreds of dollars since October '93
to help GBNC be what it is today -- a non-political, non-profit organization
of Boston Nepalis devoted to serving the Boston Nepalis to the best of its
ability and creativity:
Heartfelt thanks to: Mr. Achyut Adhikari and Mrs. Mina Adhikari
Mr. Mahendra Sakya and Mrs. Subarna Sakya
Mr. Raja Sayami (Boston Community Alumnus)
Mr. Mahendra "Honda" Shakya
Mr. Julian Sobin
Mr. Nilamber Shrestha (Boston Community Alumnus)
Mr. Raju Pradhan
Mr. Shyam Ranjitkar and Mrs. Roshani Ranjitkar
Mr. Bob Giramma and Mrs Shusma (Sue) Giramma
Mr. Ramesh Panth
Mr. Prahlad KC
Mr. Norbu Tuladhar
Mr. Dharma Acharya (Boston Community Alumnus)
Mr. Rakesh Karmacharya (Boston Commmunity Alumnus)
Dr. Mahesh Maskey
Mr. Kumar Raj Pandey
Mr. Bimal Gurung and Mrs. Shobha Gurung
Mr. Raju Pradhan
Mr. Rabindra Bhandari and Mrs. Alka Bhandari
All in Boston are very thankful and grateful to these contributors
for donating generous amounts of money to keep the GBNC spirit
moving in high gusto.
Thank you,
namaste
ashu raju pradhan sunil shakya
president, gbnc secretary, gbnc treasurer, gbnc
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 14:09:06 -0700 (GMT)
From: "Sanjay K. Nepal" <sanjay@rccsun.ait.ac.th>
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Ex-Siddhartha Vanasthali Grads
This is to inform all Ex-Siddhartha Vanasthali Graduates on the
establishment of SIVA (Siddhartha Vanasthali Association) in Kathmandu
as a non-profit organization with the objective of doing some voluntary
works with respect to raising environmental awareness among the young
generation and making them aware of the ill consequences of drug
addiction (two of the major agenda).
I myself did not know the existence of this Association. My
recent meeting with the SIVA President Mr. Uttam Raj Pandey of Dhobichaur,
Kathmandu and one of the member who also happens to be the Vice Mayor of
Kathmandu Municipality, Mr. Navin R. Joshi (both of them are among the 2033
Batch of SV) has made me aware of this.
Through TND, I would like to inform the Ex-Siddhartha students of the
presence of SIVA and request them to contribute (in whatever means) to SIVA; I
have also made a modest contribution and am willing to do so in the
future. I was informed that currently, SIVA has some 1.5 lakh rupees.
A proposal is being preapred to create SIVA Park in the periphery of Greater
Kathmandu.
If anybody wants to know the details, please, kindly contact Uttam Raj
Pandey of Kathmandu Book Shop, Thamel (Sorry, I don't have his postal
address) or the Vice Mayor whose office now has transferred to Chuke
Niwas (behind Bus Park).
TND members, should you know of any Ex-SV students who are not hooked to
Internet, please, kindly spread the message.
By the way I am 2032 (SLC) Batch. Some of the classmates whom I still
remember include Nalanda and Ananda Dixit, Himansu Bajracharya, Ravi
Shrestha of Mahaboudha.
Many thanks for your kind cooperation.!
Best wishes,
Sanjay K. Nepal
HSD, Asian Institute of Technology
GPO Box 2754
Bangkok 10501 Thailand
Tel: (662) 524-5606 (o)
(662) 524-5969 (r)
Fax: (662) 516-2126
Note: Address valid until September 1995.
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Date: Thu, 2 Mar 1995 08:31:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Pradyumna Rana <prana@CapAccess.org>
Subject: HAM OPERATOR
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
Any Amateur(HAM) operator in our Nepalese Community around the World?
Operator Nickname:Rana
Call Sign: WB4NFO Favorite Band 20, 15, 10 meters.
HAM Packet:WB4NFO@WA3TAI.MD.USA.NOAM
EMail:prana@cap1.capaccess.org
CIS :73670,416
Tel#:(703)683-4845
QTH:29 East Chapman St., Alexandria, VA 22301
'73 & 88 de <Rana> Pradyumna S.
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