Just yesterday Prashant Tamang, a Nepalese from Darjeeling India won the Indian Idol.
Boy, was I overwhelmed with joy! Not that I had followed the show with core enthusiam but just a thought about a Gorkhali managing to emerge victorious in a land overshadowed by a billion natives got me ecstatic. Nepalese all over the world celebrated his accomplishment and so did I.
I am thousands of miles away from home and there is not a minute that I dont miss it. Here I am celebrating Prashant's victory, someone I dont even know. Yet, why is it that sometimes I see a fellow countrymen right here in the US, I tend to turn the other cheek? Nine years ago, I went about asking, Indians, Mexicans, South Americans, Cambodians, Vietnamese etc etc if they were Nepalese and how I fail to acknowledge them now.
All my friends in Connecticut: Post your opinions and your feelings, share your thoughts and lets see if we are in the same page. Let us work on getting to know each other and work on establishing our very own community! Peace!
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