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| noname | Posted
on 08-May-03 03:38 PM
So far as I know, there is one Bindu Nath Lohani from Nepal working in senior post in ADB. Am I wrong? Or, is there another Bindu Lohani in ADB? I am quoting the paragraph from TOI, where Bindu Lohani is mentinoed as Indian (TOI, May 08, 2003, online edition): "Besides the six US-based Indians, the academies also elected three Indian delegates based outside the US -- R A Mashelkar, Director General, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Delhi (for outstanding engineering contributions and exceptional leadership and management of the Indian National Laboratories); Bindu Lohani, secretary of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Obaid Siddiqi, professor, and director, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Bangalore. " Here is the link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=45781586 |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 08-May-03 04:35 PM
Yes, Bindu Lohani is a Nepali who seems to come from Lamjung. As a few Lohani s whom I know for long time say Lohani basically come from Lamjung district. Bindu Lohani, is one of the Nepali who reached to high ranking posts in international organizations. I knew his name since last 14years, when I first landed in Bangkok (AIT). He was also student at AIT. Please click on the following link. http://www.misu.ait.ac.th/newsandevents/NewsById.cfm?NewsID=2509 HG |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 08-May-03 04:40 PM
The link had problem: Please click on the following one or copy and paste the URL. Do not copy the shortcut stuffs. It had problem at the end <a> was annexed at the end. http://www.misu.ait.ac.th/newsandevents/NewsById.cfm?NewsID=2509 |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 08-May-03 04:48 PM
Bindu Lohani http://www.asdu.ait.ac.th/Alumni/AlumniByCountry.cfm?CountryCode=NP http://www.asdu.ait.ac.th/Alumni/alumniById.cfm?AlumniID=19770062 Alumni DirectoryDr. Bindu Nath Lohani
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| Paschim | Posted
on 08-May-03 06:41 PM
Bindu Lohani is indeed a Nepali citizen (unless he has changed his citizenship very recently). He is apparently the fourth highest ranking official at the ADB (which incidentally is the largest donor of grants and soft loans to Nepal, way more than the World Bank, UN agencies, and the bilaterals). Unlike the others, I sense that the ADB maintains a relatively low profile. I am told Mr. Lohani has talented offspring as well :) |
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| nabin | Posted
on 08-May-03 07:40 PM
lumbini, budhdha nam chaleka uditnarayan jasta hastiharu indiako--bahadur darban chahi nepali. |
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| yeshu | Posted
on 08-May-03 07:56 PM
The profile makes it pretty clear that she/he is by birth Nepali. Haina o Ganthe...ke ho yesto...thulo thulo post ma puge pachhi ma Nepali nai Haina bhanne....I dont think it is fair with Nepal Ama...Anyway could somebody send an e-mail to Mr/Mrs Lohani here at: bnlohani@mail.asiandevbank.org Let's see what she/he says about it by his own mouth...and we will see them Indian dhoties later.... Take care you guys... Yeshu |
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| ashu | Posted
on 08-May-03 08:06 PM
Congratulations to Dr. Bindu Lohani!! It's always great and even inspiring to hear about a fellow Nepali's pra-gati in and out of Nepal. Dr. Lohani was a professor at AIT for a long time before moving on to the ADB in Manila. Many of his former students are in Nepal -- constructing roads and highways and doing other infrastructure-related "desh bikas garnay" works. As for his being mistaken for an Indian on the basis of his [Hindu] name . . . well, for a long time, I thought Aishwarya Rai was this cutie-pie with a 20-megawatt smile from Bhojpur in Eastern Nepal :-) Imagine my heart-breaking disapointment when I found out the truth!! Anyway, coming to the matter at hand, I would just chalk it up to the usual Indian provincialism (at worst) or confusion (at best) that led TOI to portray BL as an Indian. On a larger note, sadly, unless your middle name is "bahadur", or your last name is Thakali or Magar -- which sort of give your "Nepali-ness" away, I suppose -- most Hindi-speaking Indians in India and elsewhere have similar complete names, if not the first names, as those of us Nepalis. As Paschim once discovered (and shared with me): The state of Maharastra (or was it Karnataka) in India is teeming with thousands of people whose last name is same as his. I could say something similar for mine, too :-) oohi "used to some people simply ASSUMING that I am from the Tarai on the basis of my name, when my ancestors came to Kathmandu via good ole Lamjung and Palpa" ashu ktm,nepal |
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| Dr. No | Posted
on 08-May-03 08:27 PM
Ashu, any relation to the notorious Tiwari from Gorakhpur? :) I guess his folks moved from Kumaon to Gorakhpaur and not to Kathmandu via Lamjung. |
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| ashu | Posted
on 08-May-03 08:31 PM
Dr. No, To answer back, using your own name: No. :-) oohi "mr. no" ashu ktm,nepal |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 08-May-03 08:44 PM
Ashu is right that the surnames in Nepal are very similar to those in India. Nepal being country in buffer zone for 1000s of years, the face, name and culture have similarities with Indians and Tibetans. You just look at some Newar friends who look like Tibetans or Mongoloid Nepalis while their kids are closer to souther neighbors. Specially, Buddhist Newars: high caste Buddhist Newars, look more closer to Tibetans, because old Nepal had biz. ties with Tibet and they used marry with Tibetan girls and vice versa. The aryan looking Nepalis range from Deharadun/ Simala to Asam. When we had a training camp in a valley near Deharadun for 3 weeks, we could feel their closerness to us, I mean the language and their clothes. Even a teach from Garwal was telling to me that "Pokharial" is a family name in Garwal and he asked me to confirm other things like Gotra, it looked "Pokharel" in Nepal is "pokharial" Garhwal. So, India being a big country, and feel that when some hindu named peoples go up the ladder they will claim him/her to be Indian. Let them enjoy it. Truth will not change just by calling wrong as truth for 100s times, as Hitler tried to do it. Bindu Lohani was First Nepali to get PH. D. from AIT, therefore, his name appears on top of the list. He got Ph.D. in Environmental eng. and taught at AIT for some time (?) then moved to ADB. Regularly visited AIT. additional note: If you are visiting Bangkok, go and visit AIT even for fun. I can guarantee that Ek dui chhak khana ra basna ko samasya hune chhaina. There are so many Nepalis, and you will feel it a mini Nepal outside Nepal. Its just 17km north of Int'l airport at Bangkok. I love Bangkok and AIT. I am proud of being same alumni as Dr. Bindu Lohani, including being in same professon e.g. Civil Eng. Possibly, he is the first Nepali Civil Engineer to reach higher up the ladder of success. There is another person I hope him to rise above the ladder of success: Dr. Guna Nidhi Poudel (also an AIT alumni). Well, there is one more big shot from Nepal Dr. Surendra Shrestha, who is son of former Royal Palace Secretary in Nepal. Paras recently signed something with Surendra. hg |
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| Sadabichar | Posted
on 09-May-03 09:00 PM
Tenzhin Sherpa became Indian. Manisha Koirala gonna join politics in India through BJP. There are top most leaders like Girija, Madhav etc. acting like Indians, always trying to torture Nepalese. Who Knows?: Perhaps Bindu Lohani might have already become Indian. |
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| jaya_nepal | Posted
on 09-May-03 09:52 PM
Its true that most of the Nepali who gained fame in the world are now considered Indian. Few examples being Prince Siddhartha Gautam, Mata Janaki, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, Udit Narayan Jha, Manisha Koirala and now Dr Lohani. And the trend would follow. Well, India is not to be blamed for this nor these personalities. Nepali government and the media did not recognize them. Dr Lohani is one among them. There are many Nepali people around the world who have done some really exciting work. They come to Nepal, but none respects them. Even most of the government awards are given to people who have some kinda source to the government or few millitiary people are awarded. There are very few civilians in Nepal who are distinguished by the nation. It is also the work of media to find out the hidden treasures of Nepal and introduce the to the Nepali community. I have been suggesting this to the Nepali Times since may be years. When he/she is not respected in their nation, they wouldnt mind if other countries would respect them. They would easily accept the honorary citizenship. Tenzing Norgay became Indian after Nepal has resrticted any mountains to any climbers. Udit Narayan and Manisha Koirala became India too - I dont need to specify the reason. Did any one hear about Dr Lohani prior to this news by TOI. The answer is no. When she is respected by the Indian community and the government why wouldnt she become Indian? |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 10-May-03 06:12 AM
You try to introduce some favor in any Nepali publications including Kantipur Publications, you are first asked about the money in return. In Nepal you have to pay money to become actors/actress, you have to pay money to become singer and bring your work, same in news media. If you want to publish a genuine article in news media, they ask to publish an advertisement in return. They are terribly corrupt. They are not honest, and nor they are professionals. They ask you to offer them a dinner. Once I was in my hometown, a journalist was in relative's form and he told to me that he can print an interview on me provided I publish an advertisement in their publication. I declined to buy their space. Its same thing with Kantipur Publications. You just go and check with Kantipur agent in Pokhara or in Kathmandu. I can find you such agents via some friends who put their advertisment and publish interviews in Kantipur. So, they will not like to put Dr. Lohani in Kantipur wihtout getting a return in advertisement section. HG |
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| bhedo | Posted
on 10-May-03 06:37 AM
Of course, the first names that Nepalis use are also used in India, since they are usually of Sanskrit origin and all. But I don't know about the last names. My last name comes from a location somewhere in Western Nepal, and the ONLY Indian people who can have the same lastname as mine are those whose Nepali ancestors settled in India. Yeah, there are some people with my last name in Benares and Assam. But the fact is, they are of Nepali origin, and yes, the last name is very very rare. I doubt last names like Koirala, Bhattarai, Khanal, Nepal, Lamichane, Devkota, Subedi, etc are common in India. They just can't be. These are purely Nepali in origin. Purbiyas have lastnames that are indigenous to Nepal. But of course, there are exceptions, like Adhikary, Dixit. Yeah, it's very true that in Maharastra one can find last names that are common in Nepal. Again, it has to do with the purbiya-paschime differences and who came to Nepal first and who came later. I wonder why, if they are also of Indian origin, the Purbiyas didn't retain their original lastnames. I guess our history is pretty murky and we might never know what happened in the past. |
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| HahooGuru | Posted
on 10-May-03 07:35 AM
Subedi: is the name, I heard from a teacher in india that those who read Bed just once. Dubedi: they read Bed twice. Trivedi: thrice. Chaturbedi: four times..... We had friend whose surname was Subedi, and teacher Chaturbedi, so they were explaing the differences ..... I don't know the realty. Its not matter of Lohani was borned to Nepali or Indian, but, the reconition in Nepal. The way our political system gets worsened and get corrupted, it is not bad to find educated Nepalis migrating to India and becoming Indians. If a Nepali can be Japanese or American or Canadian or English, whats wrong with being an Indian. Once my guru, who is now President of prestigious university in Japan, told me that what about going to India if you are offered a better job. Now, I will not mind being an indian, if after returning to Nepal I am deprived of job, and if the chao continues in Nepal to find jobs for myself. I will not mind, if I am given a descent job and dignity, I will love to being a descent Indian than being a corrupt Nepali. Many Nepalis whose parents are beneficiary of corrupt system in Nepal tell me constantly that "Tapai Nepal ma kaam garnu bho bhane ghus khanu huncha huncha", I always decline that I will not do it, but, they say, its not possible without being ghusyaha. I remember the joke my father told to me in my child hood. Once there were two persons : Guru and Chela. They went on tour, and reached a small country where everything was 4 ana. The chela was excited with the price, and Guru told him to leave the country immediately, because everything cost same "highest entropy". But, chela suggested guru to leave the country alone and chela remained in the country. One day there was something wrong in the country, something was stolen from the royal palace. King asked his police to find the Chor. They went here and there and searched a lot and could not find the thief. Finally, they returned and reported to the kind. King asked them to find someone who fits the chain, and unfortunately, chain exactly fitted to the chela and jailed for years. After he finished the term, the chela returned to his own country and met guru ji. Guru was surprised to find chela lean-thin, and asked what happened to you. Chela told the story and said : Bibebhin deshma basna nahune rahechha, jaha kehi pani fara dekhidaina, i.e. mathematically, highest entropy (=highest disordered) country. So, peoples with lowest entropy can not stay in a country that is in complete disorder. There will be no surprise for me even if Bindu Lohani leaves the country for forever. We can see the this higest disorder mentality of Nepali in the thread "Most accomplished Nepalis in Japan", how they vomited their venom against the list, when none of them knew any names in the list. I really feel sorry to be a fellow country mate of these individuals. HG |