ha ha what a fking joke...like changing last name is going to help change anyone's mental incapability of not seeing beyond their ethnicity. yeah please learn from the exampels of maobadi leaders who deferred to not keeping their last name and changing to ridiculous nick names like prachanda and badal et al are the ones responsible for stirring the pot of ethnic division in Nepal.

I am totally with BC on this one. Symbolic messages are meaningless when people do not even have basic human needs beinf fulfilled and here we are talking about putting a lipstick on a pig. A racist will always be a racist no matter what name the person acquires. It's the mentality of division that needs to be conquered not put an over lapping layer or a symbolic name which doesn't help get rid of anything.