Dear Community members,

You are cordially invited to an interaction program organized by Tamang Society of Greater Washington (TSGW) and America Nepal Society (ANS). Details are as follows:

Speaker/presenter: Deepak Tamang

Venue:       Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library

7584 Leesburg Pike
Falls Church, VA 22043-2099

Telephone: 703-790-8088

Date/time: Sunday, 4 May 2008, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Speaker intro:

Deepak Tamang is a development professional from Nepal. He has nearly 30 years of experience working as senior development professional and expert in the field of Development and Environment.  He has traveled, worked, talked and written extensively in various parts of the world and has visited 36 countries in many parts of Asia, Europe and North America.  Schooled in Darjeeling and Calcutta, India (and influenced deeply by Gandhian and Buddhist philosophy as well as values of Mother Theresa), United Kingdom, and USA - he has both an engineering and management degree.  He developed and taught a course on non-profit management at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok.  He maintains wide network with NGOs and Civic Society Organizations in many parts of the world.

Based in Kathmandu, Nepal, Deepak Tamang is the Executive Director of Search-Nepal (a development and environment NGO in Nepal working throughout the Asian Region  www.searchnepal.org).  Currently, he is a senior international research fellow at the World Forest Center in Portland, Oregon and also a Guest Faculty at Department of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis.  He has lectured and held seminars widely in many parts of USA through various Universities while in America.

In his capacity as a fellow at the World Forest Center, Deepak Tamang is touring various States of America, meeting relevant professionals and pursuing his research in forest management practices and sustainable development.

Outline of the topic:

Nepal is passing through challenging albeit interesting times.  Recently, an election to the Constituent Assembly has been accomplished.  Nepal has had a difficult period from 1950s until today, attempting to craft a nation-state that will provide a decent quality of life and sense of direction to its burgeoning population of nearly 28 million people.  Deepak will discuss some of the pressing socio, cultural, economic, development and natural resource management issues confronting Nepal from a perspective of a professional who has seen action at the grassroots level.  He will also contextualize these impetuses and struggles based on his long professional experience and a wide world views gathered from his travels around the world.  He will be providing specific emphasis to the issue of national identity and ethnic identity politics of nearly 69 different indigenous nationalities as Nepal attempts to find a place in the world based on stable democracy and nation-state building.

Contacts:

Netra Ghising  - 703 597 4098

Prem Sangraula - 202 320 6115

Dig Bahadur Tamang – 301 921 4459

Uttar Lama – 703 725 9513

Vijaya Tamang – 703 772 5408

Khem Bhattachan – 571 242 5510