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The Nepal Digest Friday 24 Feb 95: Falgun 12 2051 BkSm Volume 36 Issue 16
Today's Topics:
Apologies for no header due to time constraints.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 01:51:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Looja Ratna Tuladhar <looza@leland.Stanford.EDU>
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - Feb 21, 1995 (9 Falgun 2051 BkSm)
Misunderstandings
More stuff about Budha....
> > >>The school was made for the crown prince, there is no doubt about
that.
No.There are valid resons for doubting that statement. If such were the
case why did the beloved prince go to Eton for further studies? Why not
just build a pseudo-Eton on the base of the Shivapuri hills? And why should
the Brit Govt be interested in funding the project if that were the aim?
Wouldnt offering him a spot at one of the elite brit academies been easier?
Whats the point of keeping the thing running for all these years after
his graduation?
> > >>till today, but one should see the quality now. The product is not as good
> > >>as it was during the CP's time. The reason, the allocation of fund and
Wait a minute, what is your basis for that argument? Budhanilkantha did win
the Birendra Shield in 1991/2 acad year. A-level
and O-level average scores are showing a general upward trend. Post
graduation placement in prestigious universities of India, Australia, US
continues.
> > >>government's fund could be used to provide scholarship to the needy and poor
> > >>students.
The funds provided by the government, for your information, go solely
towards supporting the scholarship stuednts who are about thirty in
number every batch.The argument is about whether that should continue (at
least thats what I think).
> > >>prince studied there and a lot of fund was allocated to that school in
> > >>earlier days. What I want to emphasize that we do not want to produce more
> > >>than one CP from that school. The beneficiary must pay for it. The
> > >>government should not subsidize the elites
The "elites" as you call them, do pay a fat bill for the education
themselves BTW.
And I recommend some basic facts about BKS be put up in the FAQ (or
maybe a BKS FAQ be put up ) so that we do not have to argue about the
same things again and again
And I do really doubt about the author being a BKS grad, but nevermind.
Thanks
Looja Tuladhar
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:48:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: GIRI J N <J.N.Giri@city.ac.uk>
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Taja khabhar London style!!!!
Greetings 2 u all
Just a quick note to tell u all about the 'democracy day' reception at the
embassy with the chief guest of course the dep PM. Before the large
reception attended by the usual, guests from diplomatic corp, members
from the Britain-Nepal society and Yeti, the dep PM addressed a gathering
of over 100 strong Nepali in the embassy hall.
I was definitely impressed by the main man's speech which was to the
point, precise and I think sincere, the tranformation from a oposition leader
to a smart and very diplomatic politician was all but apparent that night.
He spoke energitically for about half an hour mainly about: the UML's
total faith and belief in the constitution and in the democratic
process, he made special reference about the historic swearing in of the
'democratic communist' government by the monarch; he spoke about his
groundwork laying India visit where the agenda for the PM's visit was set
mainly aboutTanakpur and the trade-transit treaty; he spoke about his european
visit where his main purpose was to introduce the new UML government and its
policies to the european government, ' to reassure them and to allay fears';
he also spoke about the positive reaction of these european government and
of the coming PM's visit to India and the socialist conference in Denmark.
The reception was hosted by ambassador Shrestha (nb: a royal and not a
political appointe), it was really ammusing to overhear all these
sleazy drunk Yeti members emphasize their revulutionary/socialist
credentials as was the ambassador during the introductary speech. Yeti was
originally a dynamic student organization established in the 60's but of
lately which has been hijacked by the mafia of Nepali/Tandoori restaurant
owners and doctors who have effectively made organisation dormant and
aimless except probably to dicuss about the new nan recipee and how much
they made.
These over weight, over stayed, over aged narrow minded people have
done very little to promote any Nepal interest except their own like have
their picture taken with leaders like Ganesh man singh, KP Bhattarai, Madhav
Nepal etc and talk gloriously about their contribution to the struggle, they
are a real no good stinking lot (nuff said right, better keep my views to
myself).
Two esssential articles worth reading from UK are from 'New Scienctist'
Jan 28 issue had an interesting article on the 'three gorge dam', the
largest dam in the world, this article has a direct implication on the
underreview Arun III, the next targets KaliA and West Seti; so read it
all u people concerned about high dams in our yard Himalaya.
Feb 4 issue has a wicked and hopeful article'on-line Kathmandu'. It talks
about the aspiration of computer association of Nepal CAN (which
encompasses al the private computer companie which are mushrooming all over
KTM ) in turning KTM into Silicon Himalaya after Silicon plateau of
Banglore. CAN memebers wants to develop softwares for North American and
European companies. They want to build an IT park for softwares houses in
Dhulikhel (can u believe it, wild!!)
Mr MOS aka Sanjib Raj-Bhandari is liberally quoted, sounds a brillant
idea and all high tech, but I am all for it so beam me up captain
Raj-Bhandari.
Take care u all!!!!
Joti Giri (J.N.Giri@city.ac.uk)
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 11:16:06 +0500
From: nshresth@capital.edu (Nischal Shrestha)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Something from Nischal
Read it. Its not as long as the other articles.
Hi every one,
Do any one of you know the full meaning of the following word?
AMERICANS
I guess some people from Columbus knows about it.
A- Asia/Australia
M- Middle East
E- Europe
R- Russia(huge country)
I- India(populated country)
C- China(populated country)
A- Africa
N- Native Americans
S- South America
This shows that there are people from every place, as all of know.
To be continued...
Metal .....
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 10:41:03 -0600
From: baniya@engrs.unl.edu (Pradip Baniya)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
The SLC exam was over just few days back, but it was full of very
interesting things like (I got them frome Bimarsh, Feb 10):
Minister for E&C expressed the intention of passing more students this
year in SLC, but examinees and even guards, inspectors and in some cases
even the Principal of the school took it differently.
Cheating and copying the answers from the book were very comman.
In Tanhu, Chandravati Ma.Vi: In the exam center answers were distributed
among the students by lithography. few local teachers had active
involement in this act. when the "Mabini", running guard and central
inspector went there to inspect and control such act, they got thrased
heavily and were running for their lives.
Nuwakot Chuwadi: One student named Shreehari thapaliya was expelled by CDO
in the account of cheating and the whole examinees from that center
boycotted the exam. Then teachers and other officials were requesting the
examinees to cheat or do whatever they want but not to go away from exams.
Banepa: In one center nearly 2 "bora" of books, cheats and notes were
snatched from the examinees possession.
In khotang one student was found taking exam for other. Same case was in
Danusha.
There were reports from the CDO of varoius dist. that there has been lot
of irregularity in the exam and it was very difficult for them to conduct
exam properly.
>From Bimarsha:
DPM Mr. Nepal has recently concluded his highly publicised trip to India.
Before he left he had many agenda to discuss with top Indian leaders. He
was sepecially hopeful about the help from Indian Communist Leaders in
pushing forward his poins in Indian political arena.
But he instead returned empty handed. In his every meeting with indian
leaders, he got same reply that they will think about the proposal when
Nepales PM will be in India. Nobody cared to think seriously about his
agendas. Inthe case of 1950 peace treaty, PM PVN Rao plainly rejected
Nepal's proposal for revising and hence cancelling it. PV Rao told him
that Indo-Nepales relation is mainly based on this treaty and this treaty
is based on the century old cultural, religious relations. He said we have
no intention to modify it. He further denied any change in Tanakpur case.
In his press conference, Nepal told he is persuading the Indian leaders
about need to revise 1950 treaty deviating from his earlier remark about
totallin voiding it. He never raised any point about imposing work-permit
to Indian citizens working in Nepal.Among other things he discussed are:
entending railway service, Transit point via Radhikapur Highway, ease in
petroleum products import, reducing tariff on Nepali goods, Bhutanese
refugee problem, etc.
Analysts say that may be due to Indian leaders being busy in their
internal politics at this time caused such a pathetic response to Nepal's
visit. Still we can not expect much from the PM Adhikari's forthcoming
visit to India.
from Bimarsha:
Here is more description about the one of the worst Bus accident in Nepal.
The bus no Lu. A. Kha. 1120 was bound for Butwal from Palpa in the
ill-fated day. The real driver was away for some reason and the person
behind the wheels was "Khalansi" of some other bus. In the "chalani" the
driver was listed as Khem Bahadur and Khalansi as Bhim Bahadur.Some 3 KM
ahead of the accident spot the bus hit roadside "Dhisko". Then there was
widespread fear in the pax. Some even tried to get out of the bus but the
"khalansi" driver soothed them and told he will be driving carefully. In
Kerabari, the driver of the other bus when saw khalansi driving the bus,
asked him not to take risk, but he did not listened. Then the overly
loaded bus with some over 75 pax plunged into the river by the side of the
road. Most of the pax died due to impact of the fall and by drowning in
the "Raha" of the river.
Should the rescue team had approached the scene earlier most of the
victims live could have saved. Accident happened at 8:00 pm and rescue
team reached there by 7:00 am the following day.Local and ill-equipped
villagers were just hearing the faint voice for help from the bus
throughout the night.
I have got the list of the deceased who were identified, if any body is
interested, I can e-mail it.
pradip baniya
UNL-lincoln.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 12:23:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Nirmal Ghimirez <NGH42799Q236@DAFFY.MILLERSV.EDU>
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Death you are great
Since many people view death negatively,i thought it was time to see at the
positive effects of death. And maybe there is no death that ends all
but all is only a tyransitory phase. So trying to give death the credit
I came up with this.
DEATH
Comes picks up and takes away
To stop him there is no way
Unconquerable,unbeatable
Once born death is inevitable
No caste no creed, sex no bar
Rich or poor, young or age no time bar
Everywhere in earth is the domain of death
All must somedasy surrender to Kingdom of Death
Born a child finally becomes old
Death only is the means and not end
Weep not, worry not for it is only a change
Change due to ignorance which seems so strange
Death is only the setting sun
A new day is yet to begin
for death is a hope of new life to come
A life to live, strugglwe and overcome
Death itself is limited to mere body only
One dies externally but not internally
For body surrenders to death but not the soul
In essence we are not flesh but immortal soul
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From: ponta@sas.upenn.edu (Pratyoush R. Onta)
Subject: Amulya's comments on P. Onta's Book Review
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu (tnd)
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 14:12:34 -0500 (EST)
On TND dated Feb 17, Amulya Tuladhar has written that he has found my
review of Tribal Ethnography of Nepal co-authored by Dr. Rajesh Gautam
and Ashoke K. Thapa-Magar (1994, Book Faith India) to be patronizing. He
is entitled to that opinion but a few points, both as a way of
clarification and response, might be helpful.
1) I had written that I found the language used in the book to be
offensive and patronizing and provided two examples to support my
argument. Amulya suggests that the problem of language can be understood
because many Nepali writers find it difficult to write in English. This
is true of course but a publisher who can publish such an expensive book
(Rs. 1760) and has at least one native speaker of english in its staff
can and should hire editors to copy-edit books that it would like to publish.
2) But as my examples show, it is just not a question of language but also
the attitude that I found problematic. Representing Magars as sojo,
uncorrupted, simple, only now being influenced by agents of modernity is
to dwell on simple homogeneous stereotypical notions. Amulya thinks that
my criticism of this comes from some "avant garde historical theory" and
quickly adds that "Onta's version of avant garde historical theory will be
open to future rebukes of obscolense when new critiques come their way."
While I have been influenced by some of the discussions on this subject
in history and anthropology (and am sure the inadequacies of these
discussions will become clear as time goes on), my criticism was equally
based on my reading of magazines like Gorkha Sainik Awaj,
Rodhi, Tamu Sun Ta, Ros, Kairen, Salpha, Lafa, Char Mhendo, Chinamakhu
and the converstions I have had with people who are involved in producing
these magazines. When I used the term "discouses of ethnicity" in my
review, I had in mind the contents of these magazines produced by
different groups of people highlighting auto-ethnographies and
auto-criticisms (also criticism of dominant cultural/national themes in
Nepal) of different ethnicities. Amulya, has once again, raised an
objection based on his own hasty assumption.
3) The inappropriateness of the word "tribal" to describe many of the
ethnic groups within Nepal has been discussed at some length in the
academic literature. We need not get into that debate here. However, I
do want to respond to one more point made by Amulya. He suggests that
this book embodies a "political project of highlighting an hitherto
oppressed section of nepalese society, the "Tribals". I can not accept a
piece of writing consisting of a set of stereotypes as a political project
which counters past oppression. If there is a political project in
writing, then I suggest that Amulya should look into the magazines that I
have mentioned above (and others that I have not).
4) Finally, Amulya begins his comments by writing "I found P. Onta's book
review of "Tribals of Nepal" patronizing on the authors: Dr. Rajesh Gautam
and some Thapa-Magar." Why can not he be bothered to look up the first
name of Mr Thapa-Magar? Or would that be asking for too much?
Sincerely,
Pratyoush Onta
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:54:40 -0600
From: baniya@engrs.unl.edu (Pradip Baniya)
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
here is the list of all the decesed in the palpa bus accident:
shanker thapa (driver) -25- butwal n.p
Khem bahadur bista 18 telgha, palpa
min bahadur 12, panchanagar, nawalparasi
bhim bdr rana , biruwa-7, syanja
chet kumari rana 43 ''''''''''''''''
kalawati kebet 36, karmahawa siddarthnagar
gyanmati kebet 32, '''''''''''''''''''''''
hari gautam 38, gulmi, guhang-5
durgadevi gautam 63, ''''''''''''''
mohan kumar 65, rupandehi, karaiy-9
surendra gurung 25, dang, tribhuwan nagar
pariya chaudhari 70, rupendehi, dhakdhaki-5
belankurmi chaudhari 63, '''''''''', siptahan-4
bipin musalwan 30, siddarthnagar, india
ram kumar karki 31, ramechapp, sukajor-5
lal bdr kaliraj 32, tansen np-4
pitamber nepali 51, syangja, birgha, archela
tika dahal 28, bangadi, rupendehi-1
raju cahudhari 35, karaiya, '''''''''
son of '''''''
krisna pd khanal 25, kerkhani, ''''''''
sambhuraj gywanli 30, banganga, kapilbastu
deepak rawal 16, butwal,
paschima tharu - rupendehi, kerawani
suresh shrestha 32, tansen palpa
devi sharma parsaticket, rupendehi
bisnumaya aryal ''''''''''''''''''''''
bramhachari tharu kapilbastu
kaulakchi devi 45
mithai prasad bangai kapilbastu
44: died
34: injured and few of them were in critical condition
11 bodies not identified so far and the corpse donated to bharatpur medical college.
2 "bebarishe" bodies incinrated by tansen np.
from bimarsha feb 10
pradip baniya
UNL-lincoln
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 15:37:23 +0000
To: NEPAL@cs.niu.edu
From: mdeschen@cc.brynmawr.edu (Mary Des Chene)
Subject: Education: Books for T.U. campus libraries
I am posting the following for Hugh Woods, director and founder of the
American Nepal Education Foundation. Some readers may know Mr. Woods and
his foundation, which has provided small amounts of scholarship money for
many years for Nepalis to studysns are of a few books at a time, but any
collection that can be acquired, or arrangements made with university
libraries when they are culling duplicates, could be especially useful. I
offered to post the following information in the hope that some readers
might have worthwhile contributions to make to this effort.
In light of recent discussions of T.U., BKS, and the state of education in
general, I suggest that this is one small but useful intervention that can
be made from here. Books are sent not just to Kirtipur campus, but
distributed among all T.U. campuses. Mr. Woods consults with campus
librarians on their needs, so please note the request to contact him to
check on suitability of any books you have before sending them. Also note
that he covers shipping costs from Oregon to Kathmandu, but is not able to
pay for postage to Oregon.
Sincerely,
Mary Des Chene
>From Hugh B. Wood
The American Nepal Education Foundation
2790 Cape Meares Loop NW
Tillamook, OR 97141
One of the programs that the American Nepal Education Foundation has
carried on nearly every year since its inception in 1955 is the collection
and shipping of good books and journals to Nepal's colegon in the past, but it has
been suggested that other patrons of Nepal might wish to donate materials
to the program. (Last year we had a 1000 book collection of Asian Art, and
a collection of books about Nepal donated from the East Coast).
ANEF barely has enough money to pay for these shipments to Calcutta and
then Kathmandu. If you wish to make a contribution of materials, we would
have to ask you to pay the shipping costs to us here in Oregon.
If you have any materials (in the English or Nepali languages only), please
FIRST OF ALL send me a list (or information) of the materials, or call me
at (503) 842-4924. We collect materials the year round, but ship only once
a year, usually in June.
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:54:00 PST
To: The Editor <nepal-request@cs.niu.edu>
From: "SHARMA, MANOHAR" <M.SHARMA@CGNET.COM>
Subject: re: publication of list of subscribers
Why don't we look for simpler solutions instead of pontificating on the
complications/implications of private vs. public information.
Just ask subscribers if they want to be on the list or not . Then just
delete the addresses of those that don't want to be on the list. Publish
the rest. Problem solved.
ps. what has being in Nepal, or not being there got to do all this anyways?
%%%%%Editor's Note: Once again, TND has no objections if any volunteers %%%%
%%%%% would like to maintain a list of members who do not %%%%
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 17:16:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Archana Singh <archsp@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: The Nepal Digest <NEPAL@cs.niu.edu>
Subject: Re: The Nepal Digest - Feb 21, 1995 (9 Falgun 2051 BkSm)
Dear Netters,
I am doing a research on women's organizations in Nepal. If you
happen to know of any women's organization in Nepal which deals with
women's employment and/or banking, would you kindly e-mail me the
information at the earliest possible time. I would really appreciate
your effort.
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Archana.
e-mail address: archsp@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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From: "nagendra paudel" <PAUDELN@SUR02.FERRIS.EDU>
To: Nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 21:39:48 EST
Subject: reply
Dear editor,
Nepal digest
Thankyou very much for considering me as a
member of your publication "NEPAL DIGEST".It is highly appreciated.
Nagendra Paudel
Ferris state university
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 21:51:39 -0500
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Amsterdam Nepali Restaurant
From: fkroger@coho.halcyon.com (Frank F Kroger)
The Sherpa restaurant in Amsterdam is located at:
Korte Leidsedwarsstraat 58
The phone number is 020 623 51 93
or
Tel.: (3120) 6239495
(perhaps any or all of these phone numbers is/are correct.
Open daily between 15:00 and 23:00
Thanks to my informants on scn ie soc.culture.netherlands
Frank
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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 23:26:28 -0600 (CST)
From: RKP6723@UTARLG.UTA.EDU
Subject: Victory
To: Nepal@cs.niu.edu
Dedicated to Carrie, Bipul, Sheila, and homesick friendsnds
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Living in foriegn land causes to feel tense, unable to concentrate, sleep or
perform daily function. This is called anxiety. Issues concerning interpers
onal skills, "fitting in", and social acceptance are all common problem, but
for many of us this can be stressful. Many university provide counseling
service to help student function well in school. Some of us do not see the
anxiety as a problem and ignore it, later it can be a bigger problem.
When we are having anxiety attack simple things can get on our way. For
example a Nepali pilot trainee pulled the gas button, and almost killed
himself and the trainer. Another student couldn't deal with anxiety he
threw out a good microwave into the dumpster.
There is a dark demon lives in everybody. INXS made a song out of it
"Every single one of us has a devil inside". This demon gets on everybody's
way. The demon becomes more powerful when we are weak, such as having an
anxiety attack, feeling lonely etc. That is why we do foolish things.
The demon takes over. In Hindu the demon is called Asura or Rachhes.
There is a way to defeat the demon as well as anxiety attack.
Believe in yourself (you can refer to my Jan 3 article for detail) "Atma Bishwas
VICTORY
by Swayum Bhu
(Robin Pandey)
Once upon a time there was a demon, the king of darknessess
The demon lived to take advantage of my weakness and destroy me
I lived in terror under his attack on me whenever I was weak
He would show his faces and change them into terror looking demons
Every time he got me he would laugh at me and say
"This is my victory, I ruled the universe"
I was tired of his bully
I had to do something
How could I beat this powerful demon
I do not know anything about him
He showed up in my room the other day
I was terrified, but this time either me or himim
All I had to do was believe in myself
He shook up like a little mouse front of a cat
I got you little king of darkness, and I yelled
"TODAY IS MY VICTORY AND I RULE YOU"
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 00:38:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Ashutosh Tiwari <tiwari@husc.harvard.edu>
Subject: List of people to Korean PM
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
The letters of protest re: the gross mistreatment (beatings and
rape) of Nepali workers in South Korea have been sent out from Cambridge,
Massachusetts to:
1) South Korean Prime Minister
2) South Korean Labor Minister
3) South Korean Ambassador in DC.
4) Nepali Prime Minister
5) Nepali Labor Minister
6) Nepali Labor Secretary
7) AMNESTY INTERNATIONAl, London
8) AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, Boston
9) Nepal Bar Association, Kathmandu
10) Nepali Ambassador to Japan and South Korea
My sincere thanks to Mary Das Chene, Amrit Pant, Anil Tuladhar, Santosh
Aryal, Pratyoush Onta, Sarju Shrestha, Sunil Shakya, Gyaneswor Pokharel,
Raju Pradhan, Mahendra Man Shakya, Rajendra Shrestha, and the TND
Editorial Board and subscribers for all their help and words of support.
Moori Moori Dhanyabad!!
I will send in a copy of the letter on TND/SCN soon.
The names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of the following
'protesters' -- as supplied by them -- were attached on each letter,
1. Rajendra Shrestha New Hampshire, USA
2. Purushottam Shrestha British Columbia, Canada
3. Anil Tuladhar British Columbia, Canada
4. Yamal Rajbhandari Iowa, USA
5. Alok Bohara, PhD New Mexico, USA
6. Gyaneswor Pokharel Nagoya, Japan
7. Pawan Agrawal, Iowa, USA
8. Bhanu Neupane Canada
9. Hari Koirala British Columbia, Canada
10 Sita Koirala ''
11. Shrijana Koirala ''
12. Pratistha Koirala ''
13. Kalden Sherpa ''
14. Kenji Sherpa ''
15. Shyam Krishna Manandhar ''
16. Subarna Shrestha ''
17. Sunita Shrestha ''
19. Sajana Shrestha ''
20. Indira Shrestha ''
21. Som Bdr. Pun ''
22. Abi Kumar Sharma ''
23. Jyoti Bajracharya ''
24. Manaj Kansakar ''
25. Yasodhara Shrestha ''
26. Ravi Tripathy ''
27. Suresh Bhatta ''
28. Shashi Pandey ''
29. Naresh Koirala ''
30. Iswori koirala ''
31. Suresh Gurung ''
32. Kumud Chawala ''
33. Mrs. Kamal ''
34. Suresh Man Singh Geneva, Switzerland
35. Bimal Adhikari Maryland, USA
36. Dinesh Aryal Rhode Island, USA
37. Vijaya Raj Sharma Colorado, USA
38. Shaligram Pokharel Ontario, Canada
39. Shatal Thapa Ontario, Canada
40. Santosh Aryal Australia
41. Megha Parajulee, PhD Texas, USA
42. Rajesh Adhikari Shinjuku, Japan
43. Dr. Amita Adhikari Shinjuku, Japan
44. Anita Regmi Washinton DC, USA
45. Ram Acharya Alabama, USA
46. Nirmal Ghimirez USA
47. Rajpal J. Singh New York, USA
48. Rajesh Shrestha Massachusetts, USA
49. Padam Sharma North Dakota, USA
50. Sohan Panta UK
51. Amrit Pant Massachusetts, USA
52. Binoy Yonzon Massachuetss, USA
53 Sarju Shrestha Virginia, USA
54. Mahendra Man Shakya Massachusetts, USA
55. Raju Pradhan Massachuetts, USA
56. Sri Krishna Pandey Massachusets, USA
57. Sunil Shakya Massachuetts, USA
58. Pratyoush Onta Pennsylvania, USA
59 Bikash Thapliya Kathmandu, Nepal
60. Ashutosh Tiwari Massachusetts, USA
61. Ramesh Poudyal Trieste, Italy
p.s. I apologize . . . if you had sent me or TND an e-mail, and if you do not
see your name here. I tried to do my best to include everyone's -- who sent
in e-mails -- names.
namaste
ashu
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:40:08 -0500
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Subject: Nepal Info & Tech show & conference Jan '95
From: fkroger@coho.halcyon.com (Frank F Kroger)
An interview with Sanjib Rajbhandari, President of Mercantile Office
Systems (computer/software dealer and internet email provider in
Kathmandu):
Question: Since the communist party has come to power has its new economic
policy effected the computer business?
SR: So far we have not experienced any visible difference in the policy of
the new govt. But I feel that it is too early to comment on the policy. We
are following a policy of wait and see.
Q: What are the problems in the field of computer marketing?
SR: There are many. Computer technology changes very fast. Almost every
batch of computers include som changes in technology. There is delay in
receiving consignments. By the time we are in a position to send the
computers to our market, there is a cha nge in valuation. We may lose
money and inconveniences the customer.
Q: What are the objectives of the conference?
SR: The conference & exhibition is the first of its kind in terms of
significance and participation. We will have representatives from
computer industries like IBM, Compaq, HP, Microsoft and SPSS. Apart from
them other international experts will also participate. It will be a
golden opportunity for all to learn the latest trends in computer
technology.
The Kathmandu Post also includes an article by Sanjib Rajbhandari, wearing
the hat of President of the Computer Association of Nepal. The article
starts with a description of an imaginary 35 employee software company in
Kmdu, working on a joint venture with a partner in UK and a customer in
Phoenix, AZ, US. Video conferencing with these customers occurs through
the facilities of a US$350,000 jointly owned satellite communication
system, which keeps the cost of such communication within affordable
limits. The Nepal software industry, comprised of 40 companies with 2000
graduate employees, had grossed US$55m in the previous year. SR explains
that the above scenario is a feasible one. Then he explains that Nepal
should consider establising a software industry because
1) Nepal is a landlocked country far from its markets and software is a
high value export that can be 'transported' electronically and relatively
cheaply.
2) The software industry is environmentally friendly since it requires
virtually no raw materials.
3) Employment. In the next five years Nepal expects to have about 1000
graduates with BE degrees in computer studies, plus thousands of other
graduates in other fields such as commerce, science, arts etc. The
software industry will be able to provide jo bs for these people. There
would also be employement for clerical employees to do data entry.
Today software companies in the Phillipines and India are grossing
$20-35K/technical employee/year.
If Nepal can deliver a quality product the Nepal software industry will be
competitive in the world market because of the relatively low cost of
labor in Nepal.
The market of packaged and custom made software currently exceeds US$80
billion and is growing at more than 10% /year.
While the tourist industry is subject to factors beyond the control of
Nepal (Gulf War, Plague in India etc.) the software industry can be a
stable industry.
Countries that have included software technology in their national policy
have done exceedingly well. India exports US$1billion/year in software
less than 10 years after software parks were established there. National
planners should recognize the potent ial and benefits and chart out a
policy to facilitate the establishment of such an industry. The private
sector and the Computer Association of Nepal are eager to participate.
To improve the marketability of Nepali software software companies should
acquire ISO 9000 certificates. (ISO is a European seal of quality
recognised the world over.) An ISO certification involves heavy costs and
long processes, it is a bitter pill to sw allow, but it is any day easier
than changing Nepal's "image" (as a poor undeveloped country.)
In the software industry only high quality products can be marketed, hence
control and maintenance of quality is of the utmost importance. The
fastest and most cost effective way of acquiring this is to go in for
technical tie-ups which guarantee tranfer of technology. Also have
regular quality assurance courses.
The Nepal software industry should be in partnership with reliable and
competent marketing partners in the market place. The ideal situation
will be if the techical joint venture partner is also the marketing
partner. Such partners are difficult to com e by, but not impossible.
Establishing a software technology park is a great way to jump start the
software industry. Singapore, Malaysia, Costa Rica and India are living
proof of how software tehcnology parks help develop the software industry.
Having a number of software compa nies in one location, where
communication, development, training and quality assurance are available,
provides a good nucleus around which to develop the whole industry.
Cheap, advanced and reliable communications is as important to the
software industry as wool is to the carpet industry. No data
communication, no software export. It is that simple. And it has to be
CHEAP. Today Nepalese customers are paying as high as US$3.50/minute of
international communication. These rates are about the highest in the
world. Either software companies should be allowed to set up their own
satellite data communications facility to bring down the cost to
acceptable levels or telecommun ication companies in Nepal should offer
service at internationally competitive rates. If neither of these can be
achieved Nepal should not contemplate developing a software export
industry at all.
Government incentives for software companies who are exporting is not a
must, but it certainly can not hurt. What the govt puts into the software
industry today it will reap ten fold in half as many years. The incentive
can be in the form of a tax holida y for ten years, duty free imports for
capital goods, fundings to participate in international exhibitions,
reduced tariff for utilities, etc. There appears to be a great deal to be
done, but given all the benefits, this industry is definitely worth
investing in. It is do-able.
_____________
Vigyan J Rana reports on "Nepal Telecommunications Corp, NEPPAK moving
ahead bit by bit on Packet switching public data network." It is claimed
that this initiative is upgrading telecom technology to bring improved
service, and a wider range of international data communications services
at lower cost. The article includes a lot of technical terms. On the same
page is an advertisement from Nepal Telecom. Corp. with "hearty Greetings
& best wishes for the success of the" Conference.
____________
An article by Allen Tuladhar explains a Nepali neologism: "co-ompetition",
the idea that competitors in the Nepal computer industry need to work
together in order to further the health of the industry.
He reports that the Computer Association of Nepal has provided a forum
for players in the Nepal computer industry to talk to each other to iron
out problems and to be pro-active in promoting the role of computers in
Nepal.
Techtalks were organized every 2 weeks on various topics such as:
viruses, networking, optimizing your pc, power supply, software exports etc.
As a result of the Techtalks a committee was formet to standaridize and
define Devanagare starndards, such as their ASCII values and their
location on the keyboard. Also the use of Devangari in databases,
touching on sorating and numeric calculations.
The establishent of a Technology Park task force in collaboration with
Ronast, National Computer Center etc, to provide access to data
transmission facilities by export software industry.etc.
The Show and Conference is an example of co-ompetition.
The show will receive media attention from Nepal and from neighboring
countries, including Nepal Tv, Kantipur & Kathmandu Post publishing
special sections, show newsletter for participants, Core Computer
magazine and DataQuest mag. have published special issues.
CAN approached five organizations for sponsorship, all extended approval
and support.
US Embassy (many computer companies based in US)
Himalaya Bank has been impressed with the growth in volume of the
computer business
Singapore Airlines carries much computer imports to Nepal
Hotel Bluestar
Himalayan General Insurance.
Currently (Allan Tuladhar estimates) the total of the Nepal computer
industry at 280 crore NR/year and he claims that the industry is
DOUBLING EVERY MONTH.
posted from the Kathmandu Post Jan 19, 1995 by Frank Kroger
fkroger@halcyon.com
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From: Surendra P. Bhattarai <spbhatta@kopt0002.delcoelect.com>
Subject: Address Change Notification
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:50:55 EST
Our TND friends:
I have been offered a Staff Engineer position with Motorola Advanced
Microprocessor Division, Semiconductor Products Sector in Austin, Texas.
It represents a leap forward in my career; I have decided to accept the
offer. My start date with Motorola will be March 13th.
My wife, Bandana, is already working for Motorola as an Electrical Engineer
since January. I suggest that any e-mails to us (including the TND) be
forwarded to Bandana's address. I don't have a Motorola internet ID, yet.
Bandana's internet address is:
------------------------------
Our Austin address and phone numbers are:
-----------------------------------------
2809 West William Cannon Drive, Apt #E207
Austin, Texas 78745
Phone: (512) 447-4559 (H)
(512) 891-8498 (Bandana's Work)
(512) 891-3295 (Bandana's Fax)
My several years' association with Delco Electronic/General Motors has been
rewarding. We will miss our friends in the Midwest, within and outside the
Nepali Community.
I look forward to working for Motorola and meeting people in the Sunbelt.
Thank you.
Surendra Bhattarai
Advanced Project Engineer
Delco Electronics, A Subsidiary of General Motors
One Corporate Center, MS: CT40C
Kokomo, Indiana 46902
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Date: 23 Feb 95 13:57:49 EST
From: Smita Gyawali
Subject: hi
To: nepal@cs.niu.edu
This might be not that big issue. I was just concerned if Nepal
has to publish so many differentstamps each year. I receive letters
from home and
always see the new stamps. It is good to see scenic beauty of our country
captured in stamps. But is it cost effective? I hope some professionals
can answer my question
thank you
Smita Gyawali
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Date: 24 Feb 1995 13:11:25 EDT
To: nepal-request@cs.niu.edu
From: MAmatya@sma.gov.au
Subject: Antarghat Annex
re: Ashu's Fwd of KPoudel's Satire
I think two more events of Mr Ganesh Man Singh's involvement could be annexed to that
"Antarghat".
1. The role he played to compromise with Ranas, against the will and wishes
of many freedom fighters who fought alongside and lived or died with their
boots on; and
2. Another, similar role he played to compromise with the Panchayat leader,
not long ago.
You may agree that he was with Bhattarai and others in that role, that's the
politics of opportune.
MAmatya
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