| San |
Posted
on 23-Oct-01 08:52 PM
Congratulations to the newly elected GBNC Council! The new council executives are as follows:
PRESIDENT: Bik Yonjan
VICE PRESIDENT: Batsal Devkota
TREASURER: Ashish Shrestha
SECRETARY: Neesha Shrestha
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
Arpana Aryal
Jay Shrestha
Namita Kiran
Prasanna Dhungel
Pradeep Paudel
Ranjana Bohra
Yurish Chitrakar
Welcome to all the new members and hearty thanks to all returning members who have chosen to serve the Greater Boston Nepalese Community for yet another year.
Thanks to Sachit Rajbanshi and the former council members for their active involvement in GBNC last year, and we look forward to their continued support in future. The Dasain party was a blast thanks to everyone, the volunteers, the dancers, the musicians, who contributed their time and talents to make the event a huge success. We look forward to more participation and more parties!
Happy Vijaya Dashmi to all.
San Pradhan,
Webmaster, GBNC
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| ashu |
Posted
on 24-Oct-01 10:23 PM
A friend forwarded an email to me, and I thought it was and is quite interesting
that out of 11 members of the GBNC new ex-com, more than half went to one school in Kathmandu.
Sure, that, by itself, is NOTHING significant, but -- having long been wary and even dismissive of what I call "St. Xavier's syndrome" (that is, the pathetic pracice of hanging out ONLY and ONLY with one's schoolmates well into adulthood and thereby sadly missing the perspectives that many, diverse non-STXers provide!),
I would urge the new GBNC team to consciously avoid such "St. Xavier's Syndrome" by avoiding, well, herd-like thinking, by avoiding defensive reasoning and by adopting an EMBRACE of a diversity of thoughts and perspectives that
can only mirror the diversity of the Nepali community in Boston.
I say that as a lesson from history: There have cases when GBNC was nothing more than a club house for a few SELECTED people -- and, I am sure, the new
Committee is wise enough not to repeat such stupidity.
After all, Nepali communities everywhere DESERVE leadership that LISTENS to all ideas (positive or negative) and tries to bring disparate members into the fold
of the communities within the limitations. It's NOT an easy job, but somebody has to do it.
Incidentally, there ARE refreshing conter-examples to "St. Xavier's Syndome". People like Kanak Dixit, Mahendra Honda Sakya and many others are
excellent exceptions to the syndrome . . .
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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