San, how about featuring some of the people mentioned on this thread?

VivashMe

how about Dr. Upendra Devkota?
he is the leading neuro sergeon in Whole Asia and Europe. he is one of the seven family doctors of british royal family. if you go to anywhere in asia and europe for very complecated brain related sergeory, there is a very good chance that he will be the one who would be performing the sergeory.

And i completely agree with Suman. Also let's not forget great Tenging Sherpa and the other sherpa's who have kept many word records in mountainering.

you know what it's not how much money you make or what kinda degree you have........in our society especially now LEADERS count, people who are making a difference not the people who are making all the money in the world. You can achieve all the degree and prestige but are you doing anything to make a difference?
do you count as a nepali for a positive impact in our society?
Have you done anything to change the way we think, act?
Education is the most important thing for a developing country like ours...so the few people with the degree dun make a country.
We have to change our outlook of things.
As everyone here is coming down on cooks like they are the third degree citizen...wake up. That's why we need a open minded attitude.
Look up the labour department ranking.....a chef is a white collar worker Like a doctor or a engineer.......he makes depending from $100K-$200K.
The way our society is build being a doctor or a engineer and now a software engineer is the big high ranking position with all the respect.....yeah right!
wake up we live in the world today....21st century.
First learn to respect a person but not his positon or his degree then we are making a step forward. Doesn't matter what you are it's worthless unless you do somethihng for the human kind , here it's for the country. So even if you are the highest ranking shit in the white house but you can't be compared to a lowly Nepali who is a volunteer worker in the remote part of Nepal, he is more accomplished Nepali. Because he is not about money or ranking but about the people of Nepal. And we need people like that not some freaking engineer who makes $200k and buys a house and provides for his family, he is just another capitalist society slave.
For a Nepali to be most accomplished he's got to be doing something for the country or for the people of Nepal otherwise your money and degree is worthless.

KIRAN Kshettri is nepali.. well half nepali. Her father is Nepali, and mother, American. Other great nepali's in america.
1. Tenzing tamang: accomplished loader in alaska fish corporation.
2. Ram krishna subedi: bahun ko bachcha is dishwasher for 5 years in an indian restaurant. Makes loads of money, around $1000 a month. eats beef too.
3. trishna tuladhar: Hooker in downtown. makes loads of money, but spends it on crack
4. ravi timilsina: Father was panche minister. son is Limo driver.
5. kancha maharjan: ashon ko jyaaps, has tons of money in kathmandu, he works in laundry, and he is wannabe manager.
6. Tarun K.C.: kshettri ko choro tyo pau chuncha ghin le chudaina, manish thulo dil le huncha jaat le hudaina. still workin' for prestigious jacksonheight dhaba.
7. subash gurung: should i say more???
8. rajesh thapa: well he was great. Dead now. boinked neighbours wife, neighbour shot him right in his hathiyaar.
9. tyson gurung: wanna-be-brit-army. Still living in illusion of "bir nepali". wanted in 3 citites in usa for bar-fight.
10. great Freeek: "Jo kamaya khaaya udadiya, oh darling yeh hain america"

I need to recognize the criterias to be accomplished. Except for freek's list, it seems like MDs and media coverage has been the criteria for accomplished. But is that it?? Is that how accomplishments are measured?

I have the same question as Vagabound has. It appears you only need to be a doctor (_BP and Hahooguru's list) to be an "accomplished Nepali." What a joke if not pathetic. Are we setting the bars too low becuase we are garib khana napaune Nepali so having a Ph.D. and a M.D. is a great event for us? Is it enough to have our name on the "Most Accomplished Nepali" List because we got a degree? What are these people's contibution to society? What have they done so far except going to school and getting a Ph.D. and working in the US, Japan, various parts of Europe? I don't see much difference between these people and a dishwasher who is working in a Punjabi Dhaba in Jackson height. All economic migrants and nothing to be ashamed of at the same time nothing to be proud of. It just is.

if that engineer has indeed done something importand in her field then definitely she should be on the list. And yes, I would put Samrat's name on the List. He has given a face, a Nepali face, in the vast sea of innumerable South East Asian writers. Now we are not known only so called Bir Gurkha who used to work for peanuts in the British Army and be grateful, a sherpa porter who is happy to carry our white masters burden, we can write too!

How about managers and president of NGO.

Amen NK
I'm with you on this one. Getting a degree from a good school in whatever field does not really tentamount to being an accomplished Nepali.
Also we should take into account the "hmm... here's an applicant from Nepal how interesting " factor in getting into a good school in the first place.

As a side note, we still seem to harbor medical profession as some sort of devine profession. This is one of my pet peevs so let me rant on it a little more. This is the only profession I know where one peer addresses another with the Dr. title (well maybe also among Ph. D holders too in international organizations).
I was chatting with my cousin kid the other day about this summer vacation plans and guess what he is doing -- visiting this Dr. uncle.
As that guy in 20/20 would say -- give me a break.

Before people slam with banalities let it be known -- i'm not really one of those ER watching doctor wannabes who couldn't be one. All I'm saying is damn it its just another profession.

NK wrote : What are these people's contibution to society?


We are not their biographers to bring what they have contributed
to the society in detail. Well, when I picked up their name, or
_BP picked their name, we surely judged their work. Unfortunately,
you do not have guts to think things positively, before you start
blasting the posters. Thank you NK for your great words.
My one cent suggestion to you, before you go writing negative
and sarcastic things, you could have tried to understand why
someone had listed those names? Think positively, and Nepalis
have now drained out their part of brain that thinks postive,
all peoples think only negative for every thing. Well, NK you
wrote that you had blend of Int'l ... blend, but, is this taste of Int'l
blend? Then, its like eating Gundruk with Tomato Ketchup.

hGxP

I am gldd Kiran is half Nepali, I was sick of people commenting most nepali chics are short and fat... but hey now I will send that picture of hers to those bastards... and may I finnaly add, ain't she smokinly fine!!..;)but fellas I guess we nepali got no chance to dance wid her. She is prolly dating those sadface white fellas... Oh well just a food for thought..

test

Hahooguru wrote "Think positively, and Nepalis
have now drained out their part of brain that thinks postive, all peoples think only negative for every thing."

I agree and I think why we have only negative opinion:
1. Lets remember how our education-minded parents taught us not to believe anyone (MANCHE LAI BISWASH NAGARNU)
2. Lets re-think what our teachers taught us in school beside compulsory education
3. Lets re-think how we spent our college life (in Nepal) with our so-called friends
4. Lets re-think how many times we got the positive advice from other people in Nepal
5. Lets re-think how many times we gave positive advice to other people beside family members and relatives
6. Lets re-think why we are encouraged and get positive advice from our university teachers (US, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE) and foreign friends
7. Lets re-think why we always have negative thinking
8. Lets re-think why we don't have positive thinking
PS: Sorry for my poor English

hi hahoo guru
it seems to me that all you can do is just make some halla. I don't see where NK is wrong. yeah it is a positive thing to achieve the highest degree in yor field of education but we are talking about the people who earned fame around the globe not jsut in one particular country or city. I hope that you don't think that making a lot of money is an accomplishment. But then we live in a capatilistic society so I can never tell. I guess for people like you carrying a national flag and travelling around the world in a bicycle with a message of peace is not an accomplishment. so please don't be dissuaed from my comment and keep giving priority to money.

Mr. R,

Did you read the title of my original posting and then, you
will realize that where NK lies. Go read the title. I did not
intrude in this thread, I knew that this thread might not
suit my list, thats why I started a new thread. Well, you
learn to take things positively.

Its not me making HALLA, its you guys making things
worst.

hGxP

Mr. R.S. wrote

but we are talking about the people who earned fame around the globe not jsut in one particular country or city.

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Mr. RS, go and read the title of this thread too. This thread is
"Top 10 most accomplished Nepalese in the US ", and remember
"US" is not = World (or Globe). World is very big, Mr. Rebel.

HahooGuru,

I have simply asked what the accomplishments are of these people. Instead of giving some, few - any - ONE FOR GOD'S SAKE! on achievement of these people you went to tell me :

1. I have not international blend, "it is like eating gundruk with ketchup." Could you please explain that in your next comment on my comments. Please be warned that I expect (with due respect) a simple explanation of what you meant by that, not a dissertation about Other Things. What that Other Things might be, I cannot tell.

2. To "think positively." Because I (again) qestioned what The Accomplishments are of these people you went to say and I quote , "Think positively, and Nepalis
have now drained out their part of brain that thinks postive,
all peoples think only negative for every thing."

Kura ra kulolai ja lagey pani huncha. So I won't b e surprised if you take my comments to a completely DIFFERENT direction - an unintended direction and give a lecture on me " How to be positive" "How to be a true Internationalist," and 'How to take words without questioning'.

This is interesting in that NK is sabotaging this thread much the same way she and others have accused others of "ruining" perfectly good threads because of their apparent insecurities. And I name NK specifically because she is a prominent personality here on Sajha, and well...she wrote what she did.

Being in the medical field, as I stated above, I wanted to bring to the forefront some of the prominent Nepali physicians in the US. In fact I added a disclaimer to the list. By no means is anyone suggesting that doctors are necessarily successful or are the only ones who are successful. There are unsuccessful and unethical doctors. But these people listed are people we can look at and see what is possible. They are perhaps people not well-recognized by the general public because of the specialized nature of their professions. They are well-educated, prosperous, involved in the Nepali-American community, and well-published in their fields. They are not writing fiction for someone's best-seller list and thus not getting widespread general publicity.

It was refreshing to see the lists of Nepali PhD's from people who knew them. So I added my perspective in my field. I was hoping other people in law, art, literature, politics etc would add the names of prominent Nepali people that we should recoqnize. Or perhaps just people who have overcome great odds to get to where they are. This should be a thread of recognition. It would be a lot better than this mindless arguing about the definition of success. I share Hahoo-Guru's indignation at NK's piece and her yes-men. Any talent is admirable, and any hard work is praiseworthy when applied to a good cause. This is a self-evident truth. Why don't we start over and start listing people we think are successful in the US?

Wouldn't "Top 10 Accomplish_ers in their professions" better describe the list? Whatever personal accomplishments one has accomplished within their profession would be different than a generalized accomplishment thru contribution to (Nepali?) society, IMHO. _diwas

NK wrote:

....Hahooguru's list) to be an "accomplished Nepali." What a joke if not pathetic.


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I was disappointed to see the start "What a joke if not pathetic." from a well
recognized personality in Sajha.com. As you said that you had experience
of Int'l blend in some other thread. The sentance "What a joke .." surely looked
like "eating gundruk with ketchup", I mean you surely are not that much
negative in real, as you posted here. If you are really so (start with negative
comments), then, the "Int'l blend" is really equivalent to eating gundruk
in Tomato ketchup, and I mean its really hard to understand you in the
developed world where peoples are less sarcastic atleast at the very beginning,
unlike to our Nepali society, where peoples are very negative, sarcastic
and pessimistic at the beginning and finally, they end up with positive thinking.

Well, I wish I was able to tell what I meant. If you are satisfied, I might have
to realize that you wrote those sentance by mistake or NOT with bad
intention (referring your 2nd posting in this thread), but, went to wrong
direction unknowingly.


hGxP