I do not think you need to donate millions of dollars, invent something new, or save thousands of lives to become a hero. I think you can be a hero if you can effect lives of hundreds of people in small ways in the context of Nepal. Right now, in Nepal with daily strikes, bandhas, conflicts, and all the greedy leaders from Maoists, political parties, to royalists leading Nepal, we have a very few heros I can think of I can look upto. And Nepali media has done a terrible job giving all the headlines to the politicians and giving almost no space to small time heros who keep on working on the background to make a difference to hundreds of people with no media attention. This is one of the reasons why we know so little about work of likes of Karna Shakya. When I was in grade 4, I remember Karna Shakya coming to my high school to organize a walkathon to raise money or the cancer hospital. It is a small thing. However, I cannot remember anyone else in Nepal working with young people and organizing events in small ways, and doing charity. The hospital may be in memory of his loved one but it has benefitted thousands of people. Similarly Visit Nepal was beneficial to his business. However, because of his effort and leadership, so many other small hotels, and toursim entreprenuers benefitted. It was his idea and we should give him credit. How many other mega Nepali businessmen have lead such a huge campaign which benefitted the entire industry and the country and not just his/her own business? It is easy to criticize but how many business leaders like Karna Shakya have we seen? Bhaktapur Hospital and Visit Nepal are noteworthy things but they are not the reason why I have started to look up to Karna Shakya. A few months ago, I saw an article on Karna Shakya's positive thinking and his book on Mysansar.com. I was really impressed because he was talking about changing Nepal through hard work, dilligence, investment and he was very positive. Things he talk about are nothing new. However, he is one of the only few people I know who is trying to bring positive thinking in Nepal in small ways when there are so many negativity about Nepal in media. It is not only me, if you look at comments from readers in Mysansar.com, there are so many people who have been positively influenced by his thoughts. I consider him a hero because he has motivated me and given me that there is still hope about Nepal after reading his articles on his battle with cancer, and his positive thinking. In the western world, we give so much credit for celebrities for coming to media with their struggles with Cancer. However, we are too stingy to do the same for Nepalese. Only other heros I can think of besides Karna Shakya in the current Nepal would be Mahabir Pun and Dr. Ruit. Pun returned from the US to his village in Myagdi, building a school, brining wireless, building income generating ventures quietly without asking for much attention. Dr. Ruit built the famous eye hospital with his hard work and benfitted so many people. However, we seldom hear about these heros in our media except when they receive some awards or release a book and not many people hear about them.