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| ashu |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 03:04 AM
The discussion on "great Nepali leaders" sparked this thought.
Who do you think to be great LIVING role models for young people (for people under 40, say) in Nepal today? Sure, one does not have to like EVERYTHING
about every role model, but what attribute/quality/characteristic would you
want to learn/take away from a Nepali role model.
Here are some of my LIVING, BREATHING role models. Please note that it is
not important to like these role models for everything.
The idea is to pick one attribute/quality/characteristic of theirs
that is wothy of emulation.
1) Devendra Raj Panday for his high sense of professional ethics.
2) Pratyoush Onta, a historian, for his intellectual honesty.
3) Gopal Chintan Siwakoti, a Leftist activist, for his courage to ask critical questions about Nepali societies and for his willingness to be punished for asking daring questions.
4) [MIT-educated] Padma Jyoti for his leadership on business affairs.
5) Sirdar Yadu Nath Khanal for his erudition (though he is sick these days).
6) Baikuntha Manandhar for the sheer dedication he has shown to the sport he loves from the bottom of his heart: Marathon running.
7) Dr. Upendra Devkota for overcoming adversity and poverty to be what he is today: Nepal's most well-known neurosurgeon
8) Chatyang Master (aka M Gautam) for his first-class sense of humor.
9) Kanak Mani Dixit for being a "connector" to all kinds of people to meet and
work with one another in and out of Nepal.
10) Dilli Bahadur Chaudhary of the then Kamaiya Mukti Andolan for his community leadership skills.
Sure, none one of these is a PERFECT person.
The idea is to choose ONE strong quality that we all can learn from and emulate.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| Kuni |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 03:23 AM
Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bamsha Acharya.
Two great comedian and yet real.
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| Trailokya Aryal |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 05:29 AM
Greetings,
I look upon Sirdar Yadunath khanal as my role model. A career diplomat for the HMG, a sudharbadi bureaucrat, a scholar.. he is all in one packet. I have enjoyed reading Chatyang Master's poetry but didn't know his real name, so, thanks to ashu dai for letting me know his real name. He sure is a good poet and his sattires directed towards our CORRUP beimaan netas are just great.
I admit that I don't know about the otehrs exceept Kanak Dixit and I ceertainly don't see him as my role model.. C'mon, i have no desire whatsoever to stoop as low as him and write non-sense (am I making a very BOLD statement here? yes, I am and I KNOW what I am talking about).
Trailokya
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| Trailokya Aryal |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 05:30 AM
hi all,
please read the line all in one packet as " all in one package"
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| Orion |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 09:38 AM
I for one am a little uncomfortable with the idea of role models - I mean there are people I admire - some of them on Ashu's list - but my admiration for anyone has never grown into making someone my role model. There is no one single person I admire enough or whom I want to be like in entirety to call them my role models. Neither will there be any such person in my life I think. Simply put, I have no role models in life, although I admire many things about many people.
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| amina |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 10:22 AM
I brought this up in the leadership discussion as well, no female role models ?
Thanks for the list ashu. I had heard ( and sometimes read) about most of them..except for 3 and 10.
As long as I can remember, I have always looked up to my own father as my role model. Is that surprising ? ;-) He was sent to school when he was like 10 after his family realised he was the smartest in the family. He went to school in the Far Western district of Nepal. What I admire about him most, is his dedication to his profession of teaching.
While we're on the topic of Leaders and role models, what do you guys think is the most essential characteristic that a leader should have ?? I think there is no one particular characteristic, there maybe 2-3 most imp ones..
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 11:10 AM
Yes, like Amina, I am not very comfortable with the idea of role models too.
I know three pesons on Ashu's category - Kanak, Pratyush, and Gopal Siwakoti. While all three are trail-blazers, I have over the years developed enormous respect for Kanak Dai (no offence meant to other fellas) for breaking new grounds, and for his great capacity to empathize, and blabber (for a person who is so impulsive, he talks a lot of sense). Any of these people as role models? Hmmm. No thank you.
With all our differences, I think I admire my father the most. A Veda-chanting medical doctor, a hopelessly sentimental writer, a tireless social worker, a great conversationalist...who has seen amazing ups and downs in his life. To me, he is just overpowering. I will be blessed to have half his energy. But as a role model? No thank you, Dad.
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| Sangam |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 11:54 AM
I am one of those people who agrees with Sir Charles (of NBA fame, not prince of whales or whatever it is) on parents being the role models not others. As for my role model, I have to say its my grandfather. (a bit of contradiction, but i guess grandparents do fall in parents category in nepali society, don't they? ) A person who lost his dad while in a tender age of 14. He had mom, two sisters and two brothers to look after, as he was the oldest one and family in debt. He ventured into a small business of buying goods from eastern towns and selling it in his villege with whatever he had. I recognized his presense in the society of a eastern town (where he had moved from the villege) once he died. All the shops were closed as were schools on the day of his death. Then I came to know that he had donated land, cash and helped build schools in the town and hospital. That coming from a person who never attended a school. I wish I could be a tenth of a man he was.
Sangam.
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| amina |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 04:49 PM
It was orion who wasn't comfortable with the idea of role models.I haven't really given this idea serious thought. For me, there are some people whom I admire but I wouldn't neccessarily follow in their footsteps. And there are some people who have certain characteristics that I particularly like/admire and try to emulate those myself. Does that make them my role models ? guess not. But then I know I have always subconsciously ( and even consciously sometimes) wanted to be like my dad, not as an individual but as a teacher. I guess as an individual or person, I do feel though, that I do not like the idea of role models.
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| GP |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 07:14 PM
Ashu,
top 10 list does not fit to be top 10 for most of the
readers in this forum, and your selection is merely
personal connection, based on your very close relation
and in the list you have not included those who could be
model, but, you don't know them. I will again use my
own yard stick to let you know my model persons,
but, I will not go to include my father and mother
as my model persons, because they are always
great for me and not scalable here with any one,
but, in public they may not have that much influence
so its not important to bring them here. Pl. have some
passions in reading the following list.
1. Sher Bahadur Deoba ____________ 70points
(I select him as the current PM of Nepal and its not bad
to put him at top of the list, but, note down he don't deserve 100points)
2. Ram Chandra Poudel ___________ 65points
(I know him very since my childhood when he was in hide
and when my father introduced him while at hide)
3. Madhav Kumar Nepal ___________ 70points as opposition leader
(30points to deserve to be PM of Nepal in future)
4. Anuradha of Maiti Nepal ________ 50points
(her contribution in protecting women)
5. King Gyanendra _______________70points
6. Crown Prince Paras ____________ -50points (he has to change
himself a lot before he gets + points
7. Devendra Raj Pandey __________30points
8. Arju Deoba __________________ -10points
(she was involved in skilfully funneling peoples money
by introducing the cunningly money making plan)
9. MAHA jodi ___________________60points
10. Mahadev Gurun of Pokhara ____ 30points
11. Govinda Raj Joshi ____________ -100points
(-ve points mean, you never want to be like them)
12. BRB/Prachanda ______________ -??? infinity
(even in next to next birth I will not be like them, asking peoples
to kill other peoples).
13. K. Dixit _____________________ 5points
(one day I want to have one weekly dedicated to
my town Pokhara, and I might need to watch and learn
his skills on making Nepalitimes alive).
14. TKP and Kantipur Editor in Chiefs ___ 60points
( I wish I were head of such publishing house ...)
15. Prof. Karkee, (no one here knows him) __ 40points
(God bless I can be Prof. like him, some day)
16. Shailaja Acharya _______________50points
(I wish I can be open like her and outspoken
without any fear of losing supporters or job or ... )
17. KP Bhattarai __________________ 50points
(I wish I would remained unmarried and dedicated my
life in public welfare. )
18. GP ^^^^^^^(....) ____________20points
19. ........... HP(my cousine)________ 30points
(I wish I can be successful Biz. man like him and
run a biz http://www.pokhara.com/ or
Auction site: lilam.com, ePasal.com . . . .)
20. Durga Nath Sharma ____________ 30points
21. Baikuntha Manandhar ~~~~~~~~30points
22. Ganesh Thapa ________________40points
22. Gauri ... News Caster in Radio Nepal in eng.
and my english teacher HP Sharma who was
also English news caster in Radio Nepal --- 30points
(for their English and kindness with students)
23. Madhav P. Ghimire (hope he is still alive) --20points
24. Sri Krishna Shrestha, Mr. Bhuwan KC and Ms. KM ....
--------------------------------------------------20points
(Nepali movie heros and heroins)
25. Manisha Koirala ______future PM of Nepal
(forecast: possibly first women PM of Nepal) ____ 40points
(how she introduced Nepal to Indians)
26. Udit Narayan Jha ___________50points
27. Smarat Upadhya ___________20points
28. Tara Devi _________________60points
(her long time dedication. I wish I can stick to
my profession for long time like her despite of not so good earning).
29. . . ... .
49. San Pradhan --------________ 10points
(I wish my site gets good hits like his site and
wish I can make them like this GBNc.org)
50. NK ______________________ 15points
(scissoring capacity and presentation skills and
......................... present readers with a lot of smiley faces).
Sorry to disappoint others, _BP, Ashu, TA, ANepaliKT,
Anima, Biswo ji, . . . . . . . .. in this site whose name does not
apper in my model list, but, it does not mean you I am
neglecting you, surely you have special things that I wish
I had them.
GP
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| villageVoice |
Posted
on 30-Nov-01 10:07 PM
You must have felt your heart swell even in sadness. Your grandfather was a truly remarkable man. I am sure you are proud of his distinguished legacy wherever you are.
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| NK |
Posted
on 03-Dec-01 02:24 PM
GP,
How did I ever miss this thread? Omigosh. You gave me lower points than you gave yourself but highter than K Dixit and way higher than Paras. I think I feel much better today about myself. What do I have to do get 60 points? Any pointers?
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