I am glad that my comments made you laugh. I wish I could say the same thing about your comments!

I think you have the tendencies to not read the posts carefully and replying. Therefore, you started the discussion with Funky Buddha and later you realized that it was your lack of understanding. So I want you to take some time and read this carefully.

1) You were the only one that seemed to misunderstand what Funky Buddha had said. So instead of blaming the rest of the world, you should try to pinpoint your weaknesses and try to avoid them in the future. May be you need to read things carefully and not expect everyone else to explain things in a very trivial way just so that you can understand.

2) Did you see that average stipend in the field of Biosciences that I posted? - I did have a reference as well. 

3) You mentioned that Nepal's education is not of the level to present great minds and I wanted to give you examples by citing professors. There are a lot more students in a good school in the US in the field of Molecular Life Sciences. There was a society of Nepalis in the field of Biomedical Sciences and they had quite a few people doing pretty well. 

So I don't think I would blame the Nepali education system completely. I agree it is outdated but I feel our base is quite good overall. 

4) I am very happy for you that your stipend is 19 K per year. So may be you don't set such a low standard after all. You told us that you started with 9200 so to move almost 10K /year is a pretty huge achievement in itself. 

5) You can't compare Nepalis in Biosciences with Indians in IT. IT boom did not require great infrastructure. All they needed was a functioning computer and a passion for computers. For Biosciences, you need huge infrastructure to start with and also huge investment. Furthermore, you can't compare a success story of a nation with 1 billion people with that of 20 million especially considering how bad the literacy rate of Nepal is. 

6) I never said that we don't have a long way to go but to completely undermine what we have achieved would be premature. You take small steps to climb a mountain!

I have been very positively motivated by Nepalis in the field of Molecular Life Sciences. When I was in College, assistant dean of NYU visited  us. When I informed him that I was from Nepal, he was rather encouraging - He wanted me to apply to NYU. I ended up not applying there but he had been quite overwhelmed by 1 Nepali student there who had managed to do amazing research there and apparently now is a PostDoc at CALTECH. I think his last name was Kunwar. There is something we can learn from stories like these instead of only seeing things from a negative light.

Oh.. And just so that you know, I don't go to a big shot Grad school but I believe that I can work hard and one day at least get to work with great minds as a postdoc.