| ashu |
Posted
on 29-Aug-00 12:34 AM
Sparsha wrote:
>let me just say this, there are people in >Greater Boston Community (nepali, that is)>who knew the fallen friend in NH well. At >least couple of ex-presidents of GBNC knew >him quite well and it's hard for me to >swallow that GBNC (made up of active and >passive members)did not know about the sad >incident
Sparsha,
Regardless of who those two ex-GBNC presidents are, who by your account, remained
"passive" about posting news/obituary about
your friend, despite their knowing him well,
the happy fact is that all is not lost.
Not yet, anyway.
You can still channel your sincere frustration into something constructive for us all.
You, Sparsha, can still post a obituary about your friend, and we all can --many of us who did not know your friend while he
was alive -- still share in your grief, while cherishing that friend's short, yet promising life.
On another note, my larger point is that, quite sadly, unlike our Western (read: American) counterparts, our various Nepali
societies ANYWHERE are NOT, what I call,
"writing- or text-driven" societies.
Our COLLECTIVE
inability/incapability/unwillingness/
and insecurity to write/argue/discuss publicly to share news, information and arguments and points
of view is ONE clear reason why even
the so-called the best among us Nepalis have, on the whole, failed to take any significant public leadership on issues that matter to our communities, regardless of whether those communities exist in a Nepali village, or in our respective professions
(in Nepal or elsewhere) or in high-powered Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sparsha, your frustrations are genuine.
If it helps, I have found that one way to turn that frustration around is to take initiatives yourself by doing the best job
you can, and let it be that.
oohi
ashu
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