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Born in Kathmandu on 16 July 1976
Ancestral home
Solukhumbu
Education
Siddhartha Banasthali (SLC, 80 percent), ISc and BA in Sociology from
Tri-Chandra College, dropped out of MA in Rural Development from Tribhuban
University
Currently Studying Master's
in Political Science from TU
As a student Not
bad, I was among the selected 50 in school likely to top SLC
Plans PhD
in Political Economy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India but not before
democracy is restructured in Nepal.
Sports
Basketball, I was captain of the college team
Family
Three brothers (engineers, a doctor), father (engineer), mother (homemaker)
Initially I thought I would end up as another doctor or engineer
In 1990 I
got my first taste of political activism participating in street protests.
Still in grade nine, I wasn't politically inclined. We did burn an effigy of
the Panchayat era but it was all youthful vigour, not real political interest.
Has been member,
secretary and president of Free Student Union; president of Kathmandu Nepal
Student Union (NSU); vice-president, general secretary of NSU
Major political influences are Nelson Mandela and BP Koirala, they had vision
and leadership qualities
In Hanuman Dhoka
During my recent arrest (third time there out of six arrests), I read Nelson
Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom.
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