I agree with most of what is written above. ANA should stand for something more than annual dance party, inter-city football tournament and insipidly boring lectures where self-proclaimed intelligentsia talk the talk but hardly walk the walk. As dyamn said above, ANA should be made more relevant to the Nepali diaspora. Indeed, how about lobbying the American government for bettering the lives of good Nepali folks here. How about working with and challenging Nepalese embassy and missions to becoming more efficient, providing more services, and delineating a path of accountability among the staff there, instead of just ass-kissing the officials. There is so much ANA can and need to do that directly affect the lives of Nepalis in America. Having said that, ANA is a voluntary organization. As far as I know, it does not have any paid staff. So, people do what people have time and capability to do. Nonetheless, when those people who assume the mantel of ANA leadership, then they SHOULD have the time and capability to make ANA effective.