Anupji, I did the telephone nwaran, twice before.

Five years ago, I had my friend's relative in the US. I set up the phone on speaker and did everything what he said from the other end. It took us about one and half hour to complete the process. Of course, I fed the pegions of the rice and flours that I used during the nwaran. Dakshina? I bought few good calling cards for panditji and gave him the pin numbers to talk with his family for hours. Anyway, my parents in Nepal did the rudri, puja whatever they thought they needed to do.

Last year, I couldn't find anyone. Everything was done from Nepal. When it was time to name the baby, my parents called us to connect with the panditji. It may have taken few hours in Nepal, but for us it took only five minutes to complete Nwaran.

So far as I know, it is widely accepted practice.

Gunaraj