100B Class Note

The 100B members of SEBS finished their A-levels from Budhanilkantha School in 1990. Sixteen years later, if there is anything common to most people from the class, then it is that they are married and are well-established in their respective fields.

While many of them have chosen to move out of Nepal, there are quite a few of them still in Nepal. 102 Shrad Tamrakar, for example, graduated from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital and works as a Psychiatric. Similarly, 111 Parag Bigukchhe works for the WWF. In December 2001, 114 Prasanna got married and he and his wife, Manisha, have a beautiful daughter named Shreeya. At present he is in Biratnagar and requests his friends to holler at him at 021-523764 when they are in town. 141 Babin Satyal works at Laxmi Bank in Kathmandu. 192 Chittra Thapa did BS in Food science and works as chemist at Coca-Cola. 189 Kumar Thapa works at Nepal Investment Bank. 154 Nabin Shrestha is in Maggie Noodles business. 160 Ujjwal Shrestha finished his MBA and is now a well-established businessman in Narayanghat. 171 Bidur Adhikari also finished his MBA and works as District Manager for Surya Cigarette Factory in Eastern Nepal. 184 Bhupendra Pokhrel has two sons (fast track!). He finished his B.Sc and is now working in real estate in Butwal and plans to move to Kathmandu. He is working in various social works such as Devdaha Protection Academy. He is also a secretary of the Reukai Nepal, Devdaha branch and is advisor to various educational fields. He is also a director of Pashupati Printing press.

Got news? 174 Arjun Kumal finished his masters in English from TU and is now one of the English news broadcaster at Nepal Television. So is 177 Devendra Dhungana, who also has a MA in English. 165 Amit Mulmi finished his MBA in marketing and is currently in the trading business. He is also the treasurer of Young Entrepreneurs Society, Pokhara. He and his wife Sono have a beautiful daughter Selene. His email address is armsoni@hotmail.com for anyone interested in contacting him. 185 Anil Shrestha did his BE from Pulchowk and is in retail business. 125 Sabin Maskey, 127 Ganga Ram Maharjan, 130 Saroj Manandhar, 132 Dipesh Panday, 149 Subash Khandelwal, 150 Subodh Aryal, 158 Deepak Halluwai, 159 Rabindra, 156 Rabi Adhikari, 167 Uttam Shrestha, 181 Bishnu Chettri, 182 Khadananda Bhusal,183 Ram Paudel,186 Gokul Ghimire, 175 Yam Rana Magar and 179 Balam Thapa are all in Nepal. 195 Sunil Goshali is CEO of Goshali House in Pokhara (this year is Visit Pokhara Year, for those who don’t follow news from Nepal much!).

If you are visiting Nepal from outside (to celebrate Visit Pokhara Year, for example), expect to see quite a few people who completed their studies from another country and decided to settle in Nepal. 122 Rabin Shrestha, for example, did his pharmacy from Pakistan and works as a pharmacist in Nepal. 123 Kanchan Basnyat finished his masters from the U.S. and works as Project Manager at Himalayan Bank Limited. He lives in Kathmandu with his wife Nilu and their son Jayant. 135 Sujan Subedi did his MBA from Philippines and works as a loan officer in Nepal Investment Bank. 140 Bimal Shah finished his undergrad from US and works at Ministry of Science and Technology in Nepal. 142 Santosh Dhakal did his engineering from India and is now working in Nepal. 146 Koshal Malla finished his undergraduate degree from Oxford and works as an Aeronautical Engineer in Nepal. 118 Dhiraj Shrestha did his MBBS from Bangladesh and works as Radiologist at Teaching Hospital. 172 Sajjad Ahamad did his Pharmacy from Pakistan and works in Nepal. 119 Prachanda finished his degree from India and works for Mercantile in Nepal as a Computer Programmer (P.S. – this is not the Prachanda who is the fan of actress Karishma Manandhar). 107 Roshan Pokherel finished his MBBS from Bangladesh and is now doing his post-graduate from Teaching Hospital in Pediatrics. 164 Rajiv Lacoul finished his MBA from India and is CEO of Lacoul Enterprises.

While many members of 100B have returned to Nepal after finishing studies in another country, some are working “in Nepal” from abroad. 144 Manishi KC, for example, finished his undergraduate studies from Slippery Rock College in Pennsylvania and operates e-business in Nepal. Next time you want to set up a cross-border online business, you know whom to contact!

If you are planning to start your own business, there are quite a few other people you can contact for guidelines. To name a few, 152 Sanjay Pradhan owns a printing business in Nepal, 153 Ujjwal Kandel owns a construction company and now is into micro-hydro business, 126 Ananda Rauniyar has his own transportation company which also manages the Birgunj dry port area.

If you are a close friend of someone from 100B trying to decide what you should buy as gift for your friend’s next birthday, here’s our suggestion: buy a globe! We are saying it because people from 100B are as spread as people from one class can be 15 years after leaving school. A globe might be just as useful to them (to locate their friends) as, say, a, you know, razor. Just look at a few. 176 Rabindra Paudel has two kids and is working in Dubai. 170 Nandu Prasad Chaudary did his MSc. in Nepal and also works in Dubai. 129 Remu Rai went to Italy for further studies. 109 Kendra Baruwa moved to Japan. 110 Shailesh Upadhaya finished his masters from Savanna State University in Georgia and works for Ericsson in Sweden. 101 Bibhuti Shrestha and 104 Sandip Raj Bhandari both moved to Australia recently. 197 Pravin Shrestha is in the Philippines. 198 Nabin Risal did his BE from China and works in Japan. 161 Paras Tamrakar has moved to Australia. 193 Gyan Bahadur Pulami served in Nepal Police as a soccer player, finished his masters from Trichandra Campus and moved to Hong Kong.180 Him Kumar Shrestha is currrently doing M.D. (residency) in Pediatrics in Medical College of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China (talk about a Chinese address!). 187 Krishna Bhagwan Shrestha did his BE from Pulchowk, worked for the government of Nepal for a few years and moved to Dubai. 168 Deepak Pathak did his MBA from Australia and started working. 173 Buddha Ghale is in the British Army. 188 Sudarshan Adhikari is doing his Masters in Geotech Engineering at University of Hannover, Germany.

The U.K. seems to be the favorite destination of most 100B members after the U.S and Nepal. 136 Rajendra Panday finished his master from the UK and is currently working in 3G Telecom Startup. 117 Steve Pandey was a doctor in Nepal army and is now in the UK. 124 Tej Rana Magar is in British Army. 131 Arish Kharel did his PhD from the UK. 138 Shyam Rokka also finished his masters from UK. Both Arish and Shyam are living and working in the UK.

The U.S. seems to be the undisputed winner in terms of where all the 100B members have settled. Let’s go in numeric order this time. 103 Binaya Basnet is in the US. 105 Biswas was working for Chaudhary group. He is now going to Michigan to pursue his further studies. 106 Aju Katuwal is working in Virginia. 108 Mukul Dev finished his masters from Western KY University. He now works in New Hampshire. 115 Pashupati Sankar Kasaju finished his masters from Michigan and lives there with his wife and his daughter. 120 Vijayesh Sainju lives and works in NY. 121 Netra Ghale finished his masters from University of Maryland recently. 128 Anup is a businessman in Texas. 133 Sanjeev Man Shrestha graduated from Cal Tech. He is a Sales Engineer in Cadence Design System in California. 134 Himal Shakya finished his masters from Northeastern University and is working. 137 Prafulla Parajuli is pursuing his masters at Arizona State.

Going further up in the roll order, 143 Samish Panth did his B.Com from Shankar Dev, worked at the Nabil Bank for a few years and is now in the U.S. 145 Manish Sainju finished his masters and is working as a Programmer Analyst. 147 Ravi Shah finished his undergraduate studies and is now working in Minneapolis. 148 Subash Gautam lives with his wife and son in Houston after finishing his masters. 151 Kishor Shrestha went to India for further studies after Budhanilkantha. He went back to Nepal, finished ISC and then came to the U.S. for B.A. in CIS in 1992. He got married in December 2004 and moved to New Mexico from Washington, DC (that’s far -- call it the Marriage Effect!). 155 Dipesh Shrestha did his undergraduate studies from Oxford and masters from the U.S. He works as Sr. Manager, Corporate Finance in Cisco Systems. 157 Ghana Gurung did his undergraduate from Tennessee and is working in Colorado. 162 Manish Adhikari finished his MBA in New York, Is married and he now works in DC. 163 Rajesh Shah finished his MBA from Hawaii Pacific University of Hawaii and Married, works and lives in New York. 166 Suresh Shrestha is working in California.

(Hint: the next person in the list just got married a year ago) 169 Kishan Rijal is working on PhD from Drexel University and as a scientist for Merck. 178 Shyam H Aryal and his wife Geeta gave birth to their beautiful daughter Savanna in 2006. Shyam works as an Analytical Chemist (Pharmaceutical Analysis) for Metrics Inc Greenville, NC. He is also pursuing his Masters at East Carolina University. He was the one who provided all this classified information to us! 190 Kundan Gurung is working in NY. 191 Madan Ghimire, has 2 kids and is working as Medical Technologist (American Society of Clinical Pathology) in Dallas. 196 Surendra Lawoti did his Masters in Photography from Boston. 194 Umesh Bhandary is a High Yield Research Analyst at Wells Capital Management (at an unknown destination?).199 Dhiraj Lama is a QC/QA Chemist in productDevelopment in California. 233 Raghav Thapa lives and works in Nebraska. Finally, 116 Deepak Thapa is in the U.S. (we don’t know his whereabouts but we will find out, we promise!)