What about you, Gamlejee? Would you be interested in heading the Nepalese mission in DC? Or somehwere else? Do you have a preference? Or do you have somebody in mind? For TU profesors and other professionals you are talking about, you certainly don't know everybody. You may be right about the few people you got to know, but there are far better people as are there poorer people --like anywhere else. You can look at Faculty at Harvard or Princeton, Stanford or Syracuse and still not everyone is the same--they have different kinds of achievements and you could rank them based on what you are looking for. I am not suggesting you could compare TU faculty with any other--of course there are questions of resources, opportunities, etc. etc.--but there are obviously differences everywhere. So don't under-estimate Nepali professionals. There are good ones as are not so good ones, virtually everywhere. How do you know how capable or corrupt one is unless the person is assigned the right responsibility? See ya, Lonely1