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| ashu |
Posted
on 21-Mar-01 11:54 PM
Adwiti,
Did you by any chance go to Mount Hermon School in Darjeeling?
I ask this because if you did then one of my friends who now
lives and works in Costa Rica (South America) knows you.
Small world!!
Speaking of which, do you want to post a little social/family/cultural background about yourself?
I mean, how did you end up in India? And the US? Is English your second or third language? Where were you educated/trained and that kind of stuff.
I would need this for background info for 'developing' that proposed The Kathmandu Post article.
More questions later.
oohi
ashu
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| Adwiti Subba |
Posted
on 22-Mar-01 06:23 PM
1)Speaking of which, do you want to post a little social/family/cultural background about yourself?
There is a beautiful place surrounded
by white Mountains and carpeted by
green tea bushes in the foothills of
The Great Himalayas. I grew up in
Darjeeling learning everything about art
romancing life from my father. Armed
with ancient knowledge and contemporary
information my father sent me out into
this world in search of my own truth.
Where searching ends love begins….
The only truth in life is love. And these
poems are an expression of the love I feel
for a divine presence in my life and for the love I found within and beyond me!
2)I mean, how did you end up in India? And the US? Is English your second or third language? Where were you educated/trained and that kind of stuff.
“ End up in India?” …..I started my journey in the foothills of the Himalayas, in the borders of Nepal and India. I was born in Darjeeling, and I love my home town with all my heart.I also cannot forget that I am a Nepali. No matter where I go or what I do, my mother tongue is Nepalese, my culture and background is Nepalese, the food I eat is Nepalese…I feel a very strongly about that. It is something I can never ignore!
We studied English as the first language in Loreto Convent Darjeeling. Although the school was all English, my father impressed a strong Nepali background.
Namaste'
Adwiti Subba
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| Adwiti Subba |
Posted
on 23-Mar-01 08:05 AM
Dear Ashu,
Namaste'
I have been rather busy. This will be PartII of my answer.
After studying in Loreto College, with a major in English, I left for Hong Kong in 1988. I got a job as a flight Attendant in Cathay Pacific Airways. Along with this rather demanding job ( really!!!) I also owned a Nepalese restaurant, a small trading company and I managed to get a Bachelor in Business Administration through a long distance programme in Hong Kong.
About 3 years ago, I got a business proposal from my friend in Malaysia to work in the States importing reproductions of the 16th century French furnitures from Malaysia and Indonesia to the States.
With that proposal and a laptop I traveled the United States and stumbled on this beautiful beach resort on the southern tip of Alabama, where while developing the business, not just with Malaysia but now primarily with Nepal, I conduct meditation classes and write in my spare time.
Dhanyabaad,
Adwiti Subba
PS Which Adwiti Does the guy in Costa Rica know?
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| ashu |
Posted
on 23-Mar-01 11:51 AM
Hey Adwiti,
I am impressed with your business resume.
You are one gutsy woman, if I may say so.
French furniture, hmmm . . . apart from the
Himalayas, French furniture can provide one
with all the romance one yearns for, I suppose.
Just kidding!!
Anyway, one good news is that Dikchya Thakuri,
the editor who looks after the Sunday Supplement
of The Kathmandu Post, has agreed to give space
to a write-up about you.
So, what I'll do is start editing Biswa's, Hom Raj's and my questions and your answers - and slap it all together
in an interview format. Let's give one more week to
others who want to ask you questions too.
The friend in Costa Rica is Sanjeev Rana -- who,
upon reading your Eyes poem -- replied to me
that someone with your exact name was a year or two
behind him at his school in Darjeeling.
BTW, when you visit Kathmandu in May, let's arrange
for you to give a presentation at Martin Chautari --
a place where we discuss stuff once a week on
Tuesdays.
oohi
ashu
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| Adwiti Subba |
Posted
on 23-Mar-01 01:06 PM
ITS ALLLLLL GOOOOOD!!! :)
Yes, I would love to present my poem/poems in Martin Chautari. I have heard some really positive things about this place!
I am away for this weekend on a business trip where I maybe very busy and unable to answer questions until Monday. So bear with me.
Namaste'
Adwiti Subba
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| Biswo |
Posted
on 23-Mar-01 01:16 PM
Congratulation Adwiti:
From surface, I think Adwiti is different from other women in
Nepal because eventhough a flight attendant, she wrote beautiful
poems(I wish any of RNAC air hostesses had slight knowledge of
what poem is), she braved the fierce competition of Hongkong by
standing on her own and running the restaurant, and she came to
the Gulf Shore in Alabama alone looking for peace and environment
for writing poetry.Now that I already met Adwiti twice, I conclude
she inherited her courage from her tough police officer father who
has inculcated love of Nepalese language in her since childhood.
But again, I think that is what Nepalese woman is. That's what
our mothers are. They are tough, even within their own horizon.
Nepalese woman work a lot more than men, understand this world
a lot better than smug men, and still are descriminated.
I congratulate her for her new foray in KTM, the land she loves
so much.I most appreciate Ashu for his amicable helps in this
regard.
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