Good Job: this discussion might have positive imapact on events organized at some other places, well, the organizers of the last Dashain may not read this thread, but, at least Sajhaities got some idea whats going on among Nepali Societies in Washington or in US. At least you can guess that the societies are run at this moment by closed circle of a few core members who don't want that society to go to some deserved members. They want to have monopoly and such practice also extends to ANA, some ANA 's FairFax even participants were telling me. GP