It is nice to see so many replies to this thread. My main intention was to wish everybody a happy new year from my heart. I also wanted to start some discussion regarding Nepal sambat, why can't we use it as our calendar? And I have no racial intentions too. I am a BAHUN. I also don't think that NEPAL SAMBAT belongs to NEWARS only, but I am filled with heartfull thankness to them as they are the ones who saved NEPAL SAMBAT from extinction during harsh rules of mad and crazy kings and iron curtain of rana regime. Sajha dwellers come from highly educated section (which may not be more than 10 percent, or even less) of Nepali population. If we don't discuss its pro and cons who else does? Lets first we discuss and then make our opinions. Our nation is united in geography only. Nepal is still not united in people's heart, it consists of ethnic islands in people's heart. Accepting NEPAL SAMBAT as national can be one step to cultural unification of Nepal. Yes there may be many difficulties to use it as official or government calendar. In my opinion, we can use western calendar for official works and NEPAL SAMBAT as cultural, just like Chinese do.