That is wonderful news. Congratulations to Pemba. May be this is not such a good news for all those who would have liked to see a different last name but it is for me. Stop sulking. This is time to rejoice for all Nepalis, that is, if you are a Nepali truly at heart. If it had been in Nepal, the buggers at the Sports Council and the Education Ministry would have selected their own cousin instead of Pemba Tamang from a far away ethnic group. This brings a serious question why Tamangs do so well outside Nepal than in their own country. The simple answer is: there are continuous discriminations of ethnic groups like Tamangs. Not that these posts have always added glory to Nepal as we have seen a book thief as ambassador and chhori bechuwa as Secretary and so many other bechuwas. Even with such a large number of population of Tamangs in Nepal, so far, mind you so far, there is no Ambassador, no CDO or a Secretary or a General in the army for that matter. The Tamangs were relegated to miseries during the Rana oligarchy as some brave Tamangs ventured to go against the Ranas in the beginning of the Rana rule. The Tamangs got nothing during the khokro Panchayati regime. Their landholdings were reduced from 90% to 20% in the hands of government officials in connivance with cunning local residents from so called privileged groups who were actually cheats through forged documents. You only need to talk to some Tamangs and you can see how deprived they feel by the succeeding governments and you are dealing with a high voltage issue. It only proves my conviction right that if the Maoists had not come, there would have been an ethnic strife like the one in Sri Lanka. The state with all their military might can suppress the Maoists but you cannot stop the growing discontentment of the Tamangs demanding the social justice and equality. I know it is lot of words to say but it is in the larger interest of the country that deserves timely attention to this issue that is like a ticking time bomb.