I am glad that my comments made you laugh. I wish I could say the same thing about your comments!

I think you have the tendencies to not read the posts carefully and replying. Therefore, you started the discussion with Funky Buddha and later you realized that it was your lack of understanding. So I want you to take some time and read this carefully.

1) You were the only one that seemed to misunderstand what Funky Buddha had said. So instead of blaming the rest of the world, you should try to pinpoint your weaknesses and try to avoid them in the future. May be you need to read things carefully and not expect everyone else to explain things in a very trivial way just so that you can understand.

2) Did you see that average stipend in the field of Biosciences that I posted? - I did have a reference as well. 

3) You mentioned that Nepal's education is not of the level to present great minds and I wanted to give you examples by citing professors. There are a lot more students in a good school in the US in the field of Molecular Life Sciences. There was a society of Nepalis in the field of Biomedical Sciences and they had quite a few people doing pretty well. 

So I don't think I would blame the Nepali education system completely. I agree it is outdated but I feel our base is quite good overall. 

4) I am very happy for you that your stipend is 19 K per year. So may be you don't set such a low standard after all. You told us that you started with 9200 so to move almost 10K /year is a pretty huge achievement in itself. 

5) You can't compare Nepalis in Biosciences with Indians in IT. IT boom did not require great infrastructure. All they needed was a functioning computer and a passion for computers. For Biosciences, you need huge infrastructure to start with and also huge investment. Furthermore, you can't compare a success story of a nation with 1 billion people with that of 20 million especially considering how bad the literacy rate of Nepal is. 

6) I never said that we don't have a long way to go but to completely undermine what we have achieved would be premature. You take small steps to climb a mountain!

I have been very positively motivated by Nepalis in the field of Molecular Life Sciences. When I was in College, assistant dean of NYU visited  us. When I informed him that I was from Nepal, he was rather encouraging - He wanted me to apply to NYU. I ended up not applying there but he had been quite overwhelmed by 1 Nepali student there who had managed to do amazing research there and apparently now is a PostDoc at CALTECH. I think his last name was Kunwar. There is something we can learn from stories like these instead of only seeing things from a negative light.

Oh.. And just so that you know, I don't go to a big shot Grad school but I believe that I can work hard and one day at least get to work with great minds as a postdoc.  

Hey buddy!

No - Biological Science does not mean Molecular Life Science only. I don't think I have stated anywhere that it means that. What did I drag into Molecular Life Science? Where did you find my views wrong? 

Snowfed River, please stop using your rhetorics and changing the topics because you can't admit that the average stipend in Biological Science is higher than you expected and there are Nepalis that are doing quite well in the field of Biological Sciences. 

Biological Science encompasses the field of Molecular Science so you can not now counter-argue and say that achievements in Molecular Sciences are not worthy!

Uttam Lal Rajbhandary exposed Nepal to people in his field by doing amazing work. I don't know if you realize this but a lot of people throughout the world have problems even locating Nepal on the map. Atleast the guy made Nepal famous by his contributions in the field. And do you know the number of prominent scientists he has trained?

I don't feel like I need to email you so that you can tell me about your contributions to Nepal. I don't doubt your contribution Why don't you just mention it in the forum? . Look Snowfed , this discussion has never been about you! I don't have time to delve into how you have contributed to Nepal - I have already said that I appreciate it but what is the point you are making? I don't think it pertains to our discussion. 

Nepalis have indeed done well. You can't deny that. For a country with 20 million people, we have Professors at Harvard and MIT. You might be a pessimist but I feel that  no matter how small, that is something to be proud of. And there are huge numbers of Nepalis in a Good School. I have met 5 kids who did their undergrad at Harvard in the last 5 years. Nepal is well represented in the best liberal arts colleges in the US.

I don't care about the NRN as an organization and I have never brought them in our previous discussions so just spare me your views on them.

Your arguments pertaining to India and President's English are just ridiculous.

1) Does great command of English reflect great education? - Look at China or Japan.

2) Do you think Politicians in Nepal reflect a good bunch of educated population? - I think you need to find a different sample size because politicians are not a representation of a good educated bunch. 

3) Was Nepal ever occupied by the UK? - India speaks great English because it had to in the past. When British took over India, they left behind a lot including their language. You see that most of the colonial nations are great at speaking the language of the country that occupied them. Look at Lebanon and the French speaking population there for example.

4) Indians also pay a lot in terms of their expenditure for TOEFL. So does Japan and China and Korea - Does that mean that they are uneducated countries?

(http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/04/117_42399.html)

5) Why would I care about DV winners? Please stop beating around the bush here.

6) Where have I blamed the government in my argument ?

I love how you baselessly stereotype things. Why are Nepalis that go to top colleges snobby? 

I don't know why you are mentioning that we need every able nepali to contribute something. I don't think I disagree with you. You sound like a Model in a Miss World Competition whose answer to everything is "I want to end world poverty and hunger" but in your case it is more like "cure entire village for free or contribute to Nepal". You see such vague statements never did anyone any good. I completely agree that we should work towards the development of our poor nation but that has nothing to do with the stipend of students in Biological Sciences. 

And I don't want your salute because your salute is as worthless to me. 

I do hope that one day my finding will help a brilliant scientist to find a cure for a disease so that he can get rid of a disease for the whole world not just Nepal! But that is not the point of our discussion here.