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As if that wasn't insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;"> "ivy-leagueish" education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says "People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone."<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank – the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn't exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a "plough to power" economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country's farmers and the teashop owners. "We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal's economic agenda," he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words ‘loves change, thrives in change’. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday’s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank’s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone’s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won’t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. ‘Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours’ says Shah. Giving his own example he adds ‘I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.’<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME’s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME’s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); 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line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;And yes, we also have a project in the pipeline whereby we will be collaborating with Nabil Bank to provide remittance service in the remote villages,&rdquo; he adds. Actually, Dr Mahabir Pun has so many projects, both ongoing and planned, that I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he has forgotten to mention at least another half dozen! And he does look a bit tired. We ask him to stand in front of Model Hospital for a photograph. A few people look at him with some curiosity, probably wondering who he is. This is because he is so completely unassuming and dressed so carelessly. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because he has so little time for such mundane things.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He is going to Pokhara the next day, he says, and I feel happy for him that he has managed to take some time from his extremely busy schedule to spend some days with his wife and two daughters who live there. His parents live in Chitwan along with his sister. Mahabir Pun was born in Nangi, in Myagdi District; it&rsquo;s a village for which he naturally holds a very special part in his heart. He has set up the Himanchal Educational Foundation to specifically support education and development projects in his birthplace. Naturally, he is a hero to his hometown folks as much as he is a hero to the nation, having earned well deserved recognition from international organizations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He was elected an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, USA, in 2002, and the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 awarded by the Global Ideas Bank of the UK. The University of Nebraska, from where he did his higher studies, invited him for their winter commencement speech (a high honor indeed!) in December 2007, when he was also conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. But his biggest moment was undoubtedly when he won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 for Community Leadership from Asia&rsquo;s esteemed Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping in mind the high tempo of his many activities, possible only because of his total commitment, one can rest assured that Mahabir Pun is well in line to receive many more awards both nationally and internationally. At the same time, knowing the nature of the man, one shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to know that the pleasure he gets when teleconferencing with villagers in his hometown of Nangi holds more value to him than do awards.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27', 'modified' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27' ) ) ) $events = array() $flexs = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '159', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Ani Choying Drolma', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/ani_choing.jpg', 'about_us' => '<p> Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. Ani is also known by the names Ani Choying and Choying Dolma. &nbsp;She was born on 4<sup>th </sup>of June 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun renowned for her numerous humanitarian efforts including the education of young girls, care of older people, and providing medical services for the underprivileged and dispossessed. Ani Choying Dolma is an exceptional singer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world. People are moved to tears by the plaintive purity of her voice, and the haunting melodies of her ancient songs and hymns, passed from master to pupil for many centuries.</p> <p> She is known to the world as a singing nun, her calm face beams with tranquility and her soothing voice gets tears of contentment roll down from every eye.</p> <p> From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a bloody beating from her father, without Ani fearing for her mother&#39;s life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away. Ani found herself at a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. She found her vocation in offering other young girls an education, a fundamental right that is primarily reserved for men only in her country. In fact, 80 per cent of women in the Himalayas are illiterate. In 2000, Ani Choying opened Arya Tara School just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another until they became sixty. Before long she needed more funding to keep her growing community afloat and it was her music that ultimately provided the funding. Even so, royalties from her recordings cannot provide all the money needed to sustain and develop the school and Ani&rsquo;s other programs. Today, she needs your help too. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> राजेश पायल राई</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म मिति -वि.स. २०३२ असोज १४ गते</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म स्थान-खोटाङ,बुइपा</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पिता &ndash; रत्न राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> माता -सञ्चलक्ष्मी राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> संगीत यात्रा सुरु-२०४५</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पहिलो गीत &ndash; रेडियो नेपालमा रेकर्डिङ भयको सम्झनाको कुरा नगर</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> <strong>एकल एल्बम</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; मुर्छना २०५२, पूर्वमा रङ चढेछ ०५३,जष्ट फर यू ०५४ ,लभ लेटर ०५५,&nbsp;बैगुनी&nbsp;रैछौ मायालु ०५६,निगाह ०५८, जदौ २०६१,कामना ०६३,जदौ&ndash;२ ०६५,दर्शन नमस्ते ०६६,राई ईज किङ २०६८ ,जदौ ३<br /> फैलियो माया दुबो सरि&nbsp;र&nbsp;&nbsp;बैगुनी रैछौ&nbsp;मायालु जस्ता&nbsp;गीतबाट निकै सफल भयका राईले राई ईज किङ सम्म आईपुग्दा पछिल्लो पुस्तामा नम्बर वान गायकको समेत &nbsp;पाईसकेका छन् । विभिन्न चलचित्रमा समेत स्वर दिएका राजेश पायल चलचित्रका कलाकार पनि हुन् । उनले दैवसंजोग, दौतरी, परेनि माया जालैमा, सी&nbsp;माला तथा गुण्डाराजमा सशक्त अभिनय गरेका छन् । यस्तै करिब ३ सय पचास चलचित्रमा स्वर समेत दिएका राईले पहिलो पटक २०५४ सालमा अशोक शर्माको चलचित्र गरिबको तीन वटा गीतमा आफ्नो स्वर दिएका थिए । त्यसपछी चलचित्रमा पार्श्व&nbsp;&nbsp;गायनमा उनी ब्यस्त भइ रहेका छन् ।विश्वका प्राय सवै चर्चित मुलक भ्रमण गर्नुको साथै कन्सर्ट गरेका राईले २०५३ सालमा पहिलो विदेश भ्रमण हंगकंग गएका&nbsp;&nbsp;थिए । जहाँ&nbsp;&nbsp;उनको जिवनको पहिलो वैदेशिक कन्सर्ट थियो ।<br /> २०६० साल असार १२ गते विराटनगरको रिभ्स डिजीटल रेर्कडिङ स्टूडियोमा ५ घण्टामा ९ वटा गीत रेकर्ड गराएका थिए । सम्भवत: विश्वमै यसरी ५ घण्टामा ९ गीत रेकर्ड गर्ने उनी नै पहिला गायक हुन।<br /> गायक राईले २०६६ सालमा रिलिज भएको चलचित्र शिलशिलाबाट विभिन्न अवार्ड समेत जिते । यस्तै उनी २०६७ मा छिन्नलता पुरस्कार तथा अन्य पुरस्कारबाट पनि सम्मानित एवं पुरस्कृत भइ सकेका छन् ।</p> ', 'slug' => 'rajesh-payal-rai', 'per_first_name' => 'Rajesh ', 'per_middle_name' => 'Payal ', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-12 16:17:20', 'modified' => '2016-12-30 13:16:20' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 2 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 3 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '140', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/anil_shahi.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anil shahi is the top guitarist of nepal.He has been spending his life playing guitar for about 30 yrs.He started playing guitar at the age of 10.He was inspired by his uncle.He has spent most of the time in foreign countries, exploring his talent..He has been to malaysia and played over there as a music guitarist.Then after he returned nepal and worked as a teacher in an institute for few yrs but wasnt interested in teaching stuff.Again he went to london and worked as fusion guitarist over there..He has worked in kuala lampur for 1 yr and england for 5 yrs&hellip;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He started his career very casually actually getiing in this line was not his intention.Once he was sitting with his frens having fun drinking beer,singing and at that time his freind called him in one restaurant to play guitar on friday,he went there played guitar and everyone appreciated him.So his fren told him to get involved professionally, he got shocked hearing this because he never thought of this before.Again nepal ambassador for uk called him for ambassy programme in this way his career started.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He loves playing every kind of music but his speciality is eastern classical ragas and flamingo.He is a very simple person.He is married and has one son who is also interested in guitar.</span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shahi', 'per_first_name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => ' 9803630638', 'per_email' => 'anil_shahi@hotmail.com', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-28 12:53:03', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 12:58:42' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 4 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '136', 'category_id' => '56', 'name' => 'puspa basnet', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/puspa_jee.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award, which she subsequently won in 2012.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in Social Work at St. Xavier&#39;s College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children living with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees (roughly $885) from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization -The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children, in 2005.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year round while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 100 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2009, sponsored by ChangeFusion Nepal, she started a program to coach parents to make handicrafts inside the cell. The main objective of the program is to make the female prisoners as well as former prisoners to become involved in income generating activities through which they can sustain their livelihood and contribute towards raising their children.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">She, along with her organization, coordinate with prison administrators to rescue children behind bars throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal, and help them break the cycle of crime and poverty.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognizing her effort as the first of a kind in Nepal, many local organizations have pledged their help to raise fund for Basnet.Major donations for Basnet&#39;s organization has come from The Glasswaters Foundation, Shikshya Foundation Nepal and Sundar Sansar. The center collects donations through various fund raising programs and individual donations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, a local organization helped raise 370,000 ruppees (roughly $4,600) for her organization through various national and international donation programs.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2 December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as;-</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;It&#39;s not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they haven&#39;t done anything wrong...My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls.&quot;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CNN Heroes culminated in a global telecast honoring the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 on 20 September. Basnet was selected in the final list through unanimous Jury decision, winning a $50,000 grant amount for her effort and contributions towards the welfare of children who are behind the bars.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Each of the Top 10 CNN Heroes received $50,000 in recognition of their work, and Basnet&rsquo;s nonprofit, the Early Childhood Development Center, has been awarded an additional $250,000 grant to continue the work.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'slug' => 'puspa-basnet', 'per_first_name' => 'Puspa Basnet', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '+977-9851101747', 'per_email' => 'admin@ecdcnepal.org', 'org_name' => 'Early Childhood Development Center', 'org_contact' => '01-4370005', 'org_email' => 'www.ecdcnepal.org', 'org_address' => 'Budhanlikantha', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-21 14:32:04', 'modified' => '2016-08-21 14:34:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '56', 'name' => 'Social Workers', 'slug' => 'social-workers', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:27:32', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:27:32' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 5 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '135', 'category_id' => '76', 'name' => 'Kiran Bajracharya', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/Kiran_Bajracharya_.jpg', 'about_us' => '', 'slug' => 'kiran-bajracharya', 'per_first_name' => 'Kiran Bajracharya', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-11 13:49:10', 'modified' => '2016-08-11 13:49:10' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '76', 'name' => 'Nepal Police', 'slug' => 'nepal-police', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-11 13:28:56', 'modified' => '2016-08-11 13:28:56' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 4 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 6 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '132', 'category_id' => '73', 'name' => 'Shesh Ghale', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/sesh_ghale.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h5 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shesh Ghale is president of NRNA (non resident nepali association), business entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Melbourne Institute of Technology. He was ranked the 99th richest person in Australia in the 2015 BRW Rich 200.3rd richest man in Nepal. Ghale was graduated in Master of Civil Engineering from Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine from 1979 to 1986 which was the scholarship program of the government of Nepal. He then returned and worked for Department of Transport Management as an engineer in a highway development project. In 1990, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to do further studies where he completed Master of Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia in 1994. Ghale is CEO and founder of Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is known for his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting" title="Method acting"><span style="color:#000000;">method acting</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. He and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Krishna_Shrestha" title="Madan Krishna Shrestha"><span style="color:#000000;">Madan Krishna Shrestha</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;make up the comedy duo&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaHa" title="MaHa"><span style="color:#000000;">MaHa Jodi</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Acharya is also a writer by profession. He has written several books based on social sectors, which were awarded various national prizes.&nbsp;</span><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">China Harayeko Manxe</em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;is his masterpiece, and is one of the best selling books of&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nepal"><span style="color:#000000;">Nepal</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha Acharya&#39;s father&rsquo;s name is Homanjaya Acharya and his mother&rsquo;s name is Ganesh Kumari. Born on 27th Kartik 2014 BS (9 October 1958) in Gairidhara, Kathmandu, Hari Bansha Acharya married Meera Acharya in 2040 BS. He has two sons, Trilok Acharya and Mohit Acharya. Hari Bansha&#39;s wife</span><sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bansha_Acharya#cite_note-1"><span style="color:#000000;">[1]</span></a></sup><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Meera Acharya died from a stroke on April 20, 2011. She was suffering from heart disease.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha started his career by performing with Hari Prasad Rimal and Jitendra Mahat Avilashi in 2031 BS on Radio Nepal, then the only radio station in Nepal. In 2032, Hari Bansha Acharya joined Rastriya Naach Ghar. He had participated in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijatra" title="Gaijatra"><span style="color:#000000;">Gaijatra</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Mahotsav in 2034 BS that upsurged his fame. Before performing with Madan Krishna Shrestha and becoming a part of the MAHA Jodi, he had struggled in the entertainment field alone for 6 years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya has also played in films.&nbsp;<em>Lovipapi</em>,&nbsp;<em>Filim</em>,&nbsp;<em>Rajamati</em>,&nbsp;<em>Silu</em>,&nbsp;<em>Balidaan</em>,&nbsp;<em>Je Bho Ramrai bho</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tan ta sarhai bigrish ni badri</em>&nbsp;are some of his popular films that were immensely popular in the Nepali film industry. Some of his remarkable comedy series like&nbsp;<em>Lal Purja</em>,&nbsp;<em>Pandra Gatay</em>,&nbsp;<em>Bhakunde Bhoot</em>,&nbsp;<em>Series of Hari Bahadur and Madan Bahadur</em>,&nbsp;<em>50/50</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Dashain ko Chyangra</em>, will be cherished by Nepalese even after many years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya and his comedy duo are active in social life and were very much noted for their effort in the April Uprising in Nepal, which dethroned the monarchy. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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Shah is one among a handful of highly successful people who have achieved their professional triumph within a short span of two decades. Amazingly he started his banking career as a &ldquo;trainee&rdquo; which is supposed to be a low profile job from present Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Ltd.&ldquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment to his responsibility brought him to the top of this highly lucrative job today. &ldquo;Clear vision, team commitment and proper job placement are the secret tips for the successful accomplishment of any organizational goals&rdquo;, he adds.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born in 1966 to his parents; late Dr. Narayan Keshari Shah and Bindeshwori Shah, Anil Shah received his school education from seven different schools of Kathmandu. Having the academic degree of A- level followed by BBA, he did his MBA degree in Marketing from India. Interestingly, Shah also was the first Nepali citizen to have been appointed as the CEO in Nabil Bank Ltd, a joint Venture Bank in Nepal. Currently, he is more popular as the towering paid CEO of Nepal. His varied experiences, dedication, innovative managerial skill, and proper mobilization of team are some of the strengths Shah deserves and have wonderfully brought him to this state of what Shah is today.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, Shah views the world as a narrow scape due to communication and globalization where people have been wandering from one corner of the world to another without knowing their strengths and value. As a result, they have been the victim of their own because of the lack of their self realization and actualization. One should be intelligent and studious in order to make the life meaningful, stresses Anil Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He shares the secrets of his management style in a connotative way, &ldquo;Just like there is a band master in an orchestra who binds all the members together with equal value recognizing their individual strength, I also find out what they are good at and accordingly I assign them various tasks. I provide them full freedom and let them work independently. Understanding their intelligence is very important to me&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How is Mega Bank different from other Banks?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It is probably the only bank in Nepal which has 1219 promoters from 63 different districts. However, it is also an average bank like others. It is a bank of Nepalese in which any Nepali can invest like in any other sectors; hydro- power, cement factory, health sector and so on. There are various working modalities in different organizations. Some apply bottom to top modality, some of them apply top to bottom pyramid whereas we are making a proper balance between these popular models. Next distinctive feature of Mega bank is that we have tried to incorporate people from all walks of life as the human capitals. Through this practice, we want to develop a mixed and unique culture and value among our workforces&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the most memorable moment of his life: (with pleasant smile): &nbsp;&ldquo;It was when I was in love with my wife Rati Shah. Actually it was a great moment for me which brought a drastic change in my family as well as in professional life, too&rdquo;. However, marriage can&rsquo;t be narrowed just to carry out the household activities, cohabitation and to born the babies rather it deserves something more. Marriage is a union and sharing between two hearts which eventually pushes ahead and helps to achieve the life goal successfully.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the most cheerful and the most heartbreaking moment of your life?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Aarya Shah, my only loving daughter, was the greatest achievement in my life whereas the demise of my father on 13th Feb 2010 was the most terrorizing moment ever in my life&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are you strong at ?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s communication. I believe I can communicate with people very well. Next, I am good at motivating team. If we communicate and motivate people, we can get the things done successfully on time. Moreover, I learn from people no matter who they are. Similarly, I have clear vision, plan and determination&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the motivating factors for his success, Shah reveals that it is his high ambition and positive attitude which pushes individual always a step ahead. We need to love and value our work. Similarly, a single person can&rsquo;t do something significant. So, we have to learn to work in team creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;synergy. Team synergy definitely results into success.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked a question about his palate he says that he adorns Nepali food like Dal, Bhat, Tama, mutton with skin, tomato pickle etc. very much.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To Anil Shah, clear vision, productive human capital and placement of the right person on right position are the three major principal tips which possibly can strengthen the corporate business. &nbsp; Vision is the first step of success. We have to invest our capital for people rather than for the physical aspects. If we succeed to satisfy our customers, it definitely results into sustainability and success of the entire business organization.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah eyes life and business in the same horizontal line. Both life and business are great puzzle and uncertain which we need to handle wisely foreseeing the future. Like in business there are various aspects in life, too. If one aspect is missed to incorporate properly, then it makes the life as well as the business bizarre. A professionally tycoon also may fail to manage family, social life and responsibility bringing disaster and vice versa. Hence, we have to make a proper balance among all these aspects like profession, family, friends, societal and so on in our life to make it really meaningful.</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20' ), (int) 1 => array( 'id' => '102', 'category_id' => '47', 'model' => 'social', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Anil_Shah_CEO_Mega_Bank - Copy 1.jpg', 'model_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Get involved:Anil Shah,CEO,Mega Bank', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A household name in Nepal, Anil Shah, in his own words remarks: &ldquo;Loves change, thrives in change.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to seven different schools in Nepal and India, then he left for Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he found himself working for a Walt-Disney production movie.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But this was just the beginning of changing environment and places for this budding young star, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years to molding him into a superb entrepreneur and one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal which is currently going through a revolutionary change.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs 3,500. Later, he became the head of Consumer Bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling and he moved from Standard Chartered Bank to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a &lsquo;practical&rsquo; and &lsquo;ideal sense.&rsquo; He says that the bank has now twelve hundred promoters spread over sixty three districts and investment worth Rs 1 million to Rs 10 million mostly from people of middle-level families.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Being a successful entrepreneur or a businessman in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea, according to Shah, &ldquo;When you are doing business in Nepal, complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. &lsquo;Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,&rdquo; says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Citing an example from his own experience to support his argument, he adds, &ldquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put them in proper places and I have succeeded. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others&rsquo; mistakes and successes.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His experience spans several years and his philosophy of leadership is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on, &ldquo;First, understand the person you are working with. Second, understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver. Lastly, determine what leadership style you want to follow to complete your goals&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To the entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME&rsquo;s), Shah says, &ldquo;From banking side, this is an opportune time because we are completely over-banked in a classical market. Top businesses have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal, every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are an SME then the time is ripe for you, because it&rsquo;s time for banks to search for new markets.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&ldquo;We have to get involved and talk, because if we continue to stay in the sideline, we don&rsquo;t have the right to say others have not done well. We should be involved not against anyone but for our voice to be heard,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah says he loves Nepal because he sees everyone happy. &ldquo;Everyone is smiling all the time even when they have to walk six hours on foot to fetch water or when there is a lack of medicine even for diarrhoea. This is because our satisfaction is too low, we have the highest mountain in the world but we summit too early.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to him, unconsciously or consciously, we always have an inferiority complex with our two big neighbors. &ldquo;We go for our study in India. We go there as a tourist. We even go to die in Banaras. But as soon as we return from India, we start calling them bad names. But I am very happy to see the young generation who are thinking differently and positively.&rdquo; To Shah, the best minds of Nepal can still serve Nepal now by going overseas. Not only is money flowing back as remittances but also the skills and expertise. British Gurkha can be cited as classic example of this, he contends. &ldquo;Nepal will pull those skilled Nepalis back only if we can put the act together and make a sound political environment here in the country.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48' ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'id' => '213', 'guthy_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Anil Shah', 'model' => 'Guthy', 'model_id' => '0', 'caption' => '', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Individual guthi 999x333/Anil_Shah.jpg', 'active' => '1', 'weight' => '125', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:52:27', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:52:53' ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ) $guthiCatagories = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '48', 'name' => 'Volunteer', 'slug' => 'volunteer', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '49', 'name' => 'Actor', 'slug' => 'actor', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '51', 'name' => 'Lions Club Members', 'slug' => 'lions-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '52', 'name' => 'Jaycees Club Members', 'slug' => 'jaycees-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22' ) ) ) $projects = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( 'id' => '32', 'flag' => '1', 'model' => 'personalities', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai foundation', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/PROJECT/MOTIVATION_copy.jpg', 'description' => '<p> Rajesh Payal Rai foundation</p> ', 'start_time' => '2016-09-13', 'end_time' => '2017-09-13', 'volunteer_skill' => '', 'cost' => '', 'created' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'modified' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'location' => '', 'featured' => '1' ) ) ) $activities = array() $guthy = array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), 'guthiCatagories' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ) ), 'projects' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ) ), 'activities' => array() ) $setting = array( 'Site.title' => 'guthidotcom', 'Site.tagline' => 'Guthi.com', 'Site.email' => 'aa.sanjit@gmail.com', 'Site.theme' => '', 'Site.feed_url' => '', 'Site.locale' => 'eng', 'Site.date_time_format' => 'D, M d Y H:i:s', 'Site.timezone' => 'Asia/Kathmandu', 'Site.active' => '1', 'mantraCMS.version' => '2.0', 'Meta.robots' => 'index, follow', 'Meta.keywords' => 'GuthiDotCom', 'Meta.description' => 'GuthiDotCom', 'Meta.generator' => 'MantraCMS - Content Management System', 'Site.logo' => 'Site.logo.jpg', 'Site.favicon' => '', 'Social.facebook' => 'https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guthidotcom/243875402344389', 'Social.twitter' => '', 'Social.google_plus' => '', 'Email.signature' => '<div> Sincerely,</div> <div> Admin</div> <div> Guthidotcom</div> ', 'Site.geo-lt' => '27.721631', 'Site.geo-lg' => '85.323238', 'Site.slogan' => ' “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi ' ) $indislide = true $guthi_type = (int) 2 $title_for_layout = 'individual_personalities Guthi' $articles = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '105', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/maxresdefault_2_1024x576.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'MAHABIR PUN: Making Nangi Part of the Digital World', 'description' => '<div> Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. &nbsp;Through his ingenuity, his desire to help his community and his Greatness of Spirit, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee MAHABIR PUN was able to connect his small mountain village to the digital world. &nbsp;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> Mahabir Pun explains why he brought wireless internet access to his hometown village of Nangi in the Nepalese mountains as &ldquo;The main reason we started this networking project is because I needed that, I needed internet in the village.&rdquo; He laughs. &ldquo;Until that time I used to come to Pokhara &hellip; at least once a month to check my emails and send emails and to come again because there was no internet in the village. I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Popular Song Of The Year &ndash; Darshan Namaste</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annaurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;And yes, we also have a project in the pipeline whereby we will be collaborating with Nabil Bank to provide remittance service in the remote villages,&rdquo; he adds. Actually, Dr Mahabir Pun has so many projects, both ongoing and planned, that I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he has forgotten to mention at least another half dozen! And he does look a bit tired. We ask him to stand in front of Model Hospital for a photograph. A few people look at him with some curiosity, probably wondering who he is. This is because he is so completely unassuming and dressed so carelessly. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because he has so little time for such mundane things.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He is going to Pokhara the next day, he says, and I feel happy for him that he has managed to take some time from his extremely busy schedule to spend some days with his wife and two daughters who live there. His parents live in Chitwan along with his sister. Mahabir Pun was born in Nangi, in Myagdi District; it&rsquo;s a village for which he naturally holds a very special part in his heart. He has set up the Himanchal Educational Foundation to specifically support education and development projects in his birthplace. Naturally, he is a hero to his hometown folks as much as he is a hero to the nation, having earned well deserved recognition from international organizations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He was elected an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, USA, in 2002, and the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 awarded by the Global Ideas Bank of the UK. The University of Nebraska, from where he did his higher studies, invited him for their winter commencement speech (a high honor indeed!) in December 2007, when he was also conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. But his biggest moment was undoubtedly when he won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 for Community Leadership from Asia&rsquo;s esteemed Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping in mind the high tempo of his many activities, possible only because of his total commitment, one can rest assured that Mahabir Pun is well in line to receive many more awards both nationally and internationally. At the same time, knowing the nature of the man, one shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to know that the pleasure he gets when teleconferencing with villagers in his hometown of Nangi holds more value to him than do awards.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27', 'modified' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27' ) ) ) $events = array() $flexs = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '159', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Ani Choying Drolma', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/ani_choing.jpg', 'about_us' => '<p> Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. Ani is also known by the names Ani Choying and Choying Dolma. &nbsp;She was born on 4<sup>th </sup>of June 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun renowned for her numerous humanitarian efforts including the education of young girls, care of older people, and providing medical services for the underprivileged and dispossessed. Ani Choying Dolma is an exceptional singer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world. People are moved to tears by the plaintive purity of her voice, and the haunting melodies of her ancient songs and hymns, passed from master to pupil for many centuries.</p> <p> She is known to the world as a singing nun, her calm face beams with tranquility and her soothing voice gets tears of contentment roll down from every eye.</p> <p> From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a bloody beating from her father, without Ani fearing for her mother&#39;s life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away. Ani found herself at a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. She found her vocation in offering other young girls an education, a fundamental right that is primarily reserved for men only in her country. In fact, 80 per cent of women in the Himalayas are illiterate. In 2000, Ani Choying opened Arya Tara School just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another until they became sixty. Before long she needed more funding to keep her growing community afloat and it was her music that ultimately provided the funding. Even so, royalties from her recordings cannot provide all the money needed to sustain and develop the school and Ani&rsquo;s other programs. Today, she needs your help too. In Singing for Freedom, Ani tells her sometimes shocking, always inspiring story &ndash; leaving us with a deep rooted admiration for the person and the burning desire to support her endeavors.</p> <p> In 1997, Ani began performing and recording her music for audiences around the world. She was discovered by a young American guitarist named Steve Tibbett&rsquo;s who heard her chanting. Upon returning to Nepal, he recorded her and subsequently added accompaniment; the result being the bestselling album called Cho. Since then, she has gone on to record multiple CDs and gained international fame and popularity.</p> <p> Ani Choying supports her many charitable activities by performing worldwide singing traditional and modernized Buddhist chants as well as Nepali and Tibetan songs.&nbsp; She has performed for countless fans. She is a charming, attractive, vibrant and eloquent performer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world.</p> <p> Ani Choying believes, if given equal opportunities, nuns have the potential to make the world a better place. One of her great and early accomplishments was the creation of the Arya Tara School, which was opened in 2000. The school aims to equip nuns with the abilities and skills necessary to professionally serve their communities in a humanitarian capacity. Arya Tara School helps young nuns harness their compassion in effective, meaningful ways. &ldquo;Traditionally,&rdquo; says Ani, &ldquo;women&rsquo;s education is neglected in Asia. Most of the girls at my nunnery are from rural areas where women are expected just to cook, clean and bear children. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> राजेश पायल राई</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म मिति -वि.स. २०३२ असोज १४ गते</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म स्थान-खोटाङ,बुइपा</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पिता &ndash; रत्न राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> माता -सञ्चलक्ष्मी राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> संगीत यात्रा सुरु-२०४५</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पहिलो गीत &ndash; रेडियो नेपालमा रेकर्डिङ भयको सम्झनाको कुरा नगर</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> <strong>एकल एल्बम</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; मुर्छना २०५२, पूर्वमा रङ चढेछ ०५३,जष्ट फर यू ०५४ ,लभ लेटर ०५५,&nbsp;बैगुनी&nbsp;रैछौ मायालु ०५६,निगाह ०५८, जदौ २०६१,कामना ०६३,जदौ&ndash;२ ०६५,दर्शन नमस्ते ०६६,राई ईज किङ २०६८ ,जदौ ३<br /> फैलियो माया दुबो सरि&nbsp;र&nbsp;&nbsp;बैगुनी रैछौ&nbsp;मायालु जस्ता&nbsp;गीतबाट निकै सफल भयका राईले राई ईज किङ सम्म आईपुग्दा पछिल्लो पुस्तामा नम्बर वान गायकको समेत &nbsp;पाईसकेका छन् । विभिन्न चलचित्रमा समेत स्वर दिएका राजेश पायल चलचित्रका कलाकार पनि हुन् । उनले दैवसंजोग, दौतरी, परेनि माया जालैमा, सी&nbsp;माला तथा गुण्डाराजमा सशक्त अभिनय गरेका छन् । यस्तै करिब ३ सय पचास चलचित्रमा स्वर समेत दिएका राईले पहिलो पटक २०५४ सालमा अशोक शर्माको चलचित्र गरिबको तीन वटा गीतमा आफ्नो स्वर दिएका थिए । त्यसपछी चलचित्रमा पार्श्व&nbsp;&nbsp;गायनमा उनी ब्यस्त भइ रहेका छन् ।विश्वका प्राय सवै चर्चित मुलक भ्रमण गर्नुको साथै कन्सर्ट गरेका राईले २०५३ सालमा पहिलो विदेश भ्रमण हंगकंग गएका&nbsp;&nbsp;थिए । जहाँ&nbsp;&nbsp;उनको जिवनको पहिलो वैदेशिक कन्सर्ट थियो ।<br /> २०६० साल असार १२ गते विराटनगरको रिभ्स डिजीटल रेर्कडिङ स्टूडियोमा ५ घण्टामा ९ वटा गीत रेकर्ड गराएका थिए । सम्भवत: विश्वमै यसरी ५ घण्टामा ९ गीत रेकर्ड गर्ने उनी नै पहिला गायक हुन।<br /> गायक राईले २०६६ सालमा रिलिज भएको चलचित्र शिलशिलाबाट विभिन्न अवार्ड समेत जिते । यस्तै उनी २०६७ मा छिन्नलता पुरस्कार तथा अन्य पुरस्कारबाट पनि सम्मानित एवं पुरस्कृत भइ सकेका छन् ।</p> ', 'slug' => 'rajesh-payal-rai', 'per_first_name' => 'Rajesh ', 'per_middle_name' => 'Payal ', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-12 16:17:20', 'modified' => '2016-12-30 13:16:20' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 2 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 3 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '140', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/anil_shahi.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anil shahi is the top guitarist of nepal.He has been spending his life playing guitar for about 30 yrs.He started playing guitar at the age of 10.He was inspired by his uncle.He has spent most of the time in foreign countries, exploring his talent..He has been to malaysia and played over there as a music guitarist.Then after he returned nepal and worked as a teacher in an institute for few yrs but wasnt interested in teaching stuff.Again he went to london and worked as fusion guitarist over there..He has worked in kuala lampur for 1 yr and england for 5 yrs&hellip;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He started his career very casually actually getiing in this line was not his intention.Once he was sitting with his frens having fun drinking beer,singing and at that time his freind called him in one restaurant to play guitar on friday,he went there played guitar and everyone appreciated him.So his fren told him to get involved professionally, he got shocked hearing this because he never thought of this before.Again nepal ambassador for uk called him for ambassy programme in this way his career started.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He loves playing every kind of music but his speciality is eastern classical ragas and flamingo.He is a very simple person.He is married and has one son who is also interested in guitar.</span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shahi', 'per_first_name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => ' 9803630638', 'per_email' => 'anil_shahi@hotmail.com', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-28 12:53:03', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 12:58:42' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 4 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '136', 'category_id' => '56', 'name' => 'puspa basnet', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/puspa_jee.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award, which she subsequently won in 2012.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in Social Work at St. Xavier&#39;s College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children living with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees (roughly $885) from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization -The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children, in 2005.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year round while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 100 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2009, sponsored by ChangeFusion Nepal, she started a program to coach parents to make handicrafts inside the cell. The main objective of the program is to make the female prisoners as well as former prisoners to become involved in income generating activities through which they can sustain their livelihood and contribute towards raising their children.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">She, along with her organization, coordinate with prison administrators to rescue children behind bars throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal, and help them break the cycle of crime and poverty.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognizing her effort as the first of a kind in Nepal, many local organizations have pledged their help to raise fund for Basnet.Major donations for Basnet&#39;s organization has come from The Glasswaters Foundation, Shikshya Foundation Nepal and Sundar Sansar. The center collects donations through various fund raising programs and individual donations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, a local organization helped raise 370,000 ruppees (roughly $4,600) for her organization through various national and international donation programs.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2 December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as;-</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;It&#39;s not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they haven&#39;t done anything wrong...My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls.&quot;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CNN Heroes culminated in a global telecast honoring the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 on 20 September. 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He was ranked the 99th richest person in Australia in the 2015 BRW Rich 200.3rd richest man in Nepal. Ghale was graduated in Master of Civil Engineering from Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine from 1979 to 1986 which was the scholarship program of the government of Nepal. He then returned and worked for Department of Transport Management as an engineer in a highway development project. In 1990, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to do further studies where he completed Master of Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia in 1994. Ghale is CEO and founder of Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is known for his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting" title="Method acting"><span style="color:#000000;">method acting</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. He and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Krishna_Shrestha" title="Madan Krishna Shrestha"><span style="color:#000000;">Madan Krishna Shrestha</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;make up the comedy duo&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaHa" title="MaHa"><span style="color:#000000;">MaHa Jodi</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Acharya is also a writer by profession. He has written several books based on social sectors, which were awarded various national prizes.&nbsp;</span><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">China Harayeko Manxe</em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;is his masterpiece, and is one of the best selling books of&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nepal"><span style="color:#000000;">Nepal</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha Acharya&#39;s father&rsquo;s name is Homanjaya Acharya and his mother&rsquo;s name is Ganesh Kumari. Born on 27th Kartik 2014 BS (9 October 1958) in Gairidhara, Kathmandu, Hari Bansha Acharya married Meera Acharya in 2040 BS. He has two sons, Trilok Acharya and Mohit Acharya. Hari Bansha&#39;s wife</span><sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bansha_Acharya#cite_note-1"><span style="color:#000000;">[1]</span></a></sup><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Meera Acharya died from a stroke on April 20, 2011. She was suffering from heart disease.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha started his career by performing with Hari Prasad Rimal and Jitendra Mahat Avilashi in 2031 BS on Radio Nepal, then the only radio station in Nepal. In 2032, Hari Bansha Acharya joined Rastriya Naach Ghar. He had participated in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijatra" title="Gaijatra"><span style="color:#000000;">Gaijatra</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Mahotsav in 2034 BS that upsurged his fame. Before performing with Madan Krishna Shrestha and becoming a part of the MAHA Jodi, he had struggled in the entertainment field alone for 6 years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya has also played in films.&nbsp;<em>Lovipapi</em>,&nbsp;<em>Filim</em>,&nbsp;<em>Rajamati</em>,&nbsp;<em>Silu</em>,&nbsp;<em>Balidaan</em>,&nbsp;<em>Je Bho Ramrai bho</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tan ta sarhai bigrish ni badri</em>&nbsp;are some of his popular films that were immensely popular in the Nepali film industry. Some of his remarkable comedy series like&nbsp;<em>Lal Purja</em>,&nbsp;<em>Pandra Gatay</em>,&nbsp;<em>Bhakunde Bhoot</em>,&nbsp;<em>Series of Hari Bahadur and Madan Bahadur</em>,&nbsp;<em>50/50</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Dashain ko Chyangra</em>, will be cherished by Nepalese even after many years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya and his comedy duo are active in social life and were very much noted for their effort in the April Uprising in Nepal, which dethroned the monarchy. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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Shah is one among a handful of highly successful people who have achieved their professional triumph within a short span of two decades. Amazingly he started his banking career as a &ldquo;trainee&rdquo; which is supposed to be a low profile job from present Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Ltd.&ldquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment to his responsibility brought him to the top of this highly lucrative job today. &ldquo;Clear vision, team commitment and proper job placement are the secret tips for the successful accomplishment of any organizational goals&rdquo;, he adds.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born in 1966 to his parents; late Dr. Narayan Keshari Shah and Bindeshwori Shah, Anil Shah received his school education from seven different schools of Kathmandu. Having the academic degree of A- level followed by BBA, he did his MBA degree in Marketing from India. Interestingly, Shah also was the first Nepali citizen to have been appointed as the CEO in Nabil Bank Ltd, a joint Venture Bank in Nepal. Currently, he is more popular as the towering paid CEO of Nepal. His varied experiences, dedication, innovative managerial skill, and proper mobilization of team are some of the strengths Shah deserves and have wonderfully brought him to this state of what Shah is today.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, Shah views the world as a narrow scape due to communication and globalization where people have been wandering from one corner of the world to another without knowing their strengths and value. As a result, they have been the victim of their own because of the lack of their self realization and actualization. One should be intelligent and studious in order to make the life meaningful, stresses Anil Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He shares the secrets of his management style in a connotative way, &ldquo;Just like there is a band master in an orchestra who binds all the members together with equal value recognizing their individual strength, I also find out what they are good at and accordingly I assign them various tasks. I provide them full freedom and let them work independently. Understanding their intelligence is very important to me&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How is Mega Bank different from other Banks?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It is probably the only bank in Nepal which has 1219 promoters from 63 different districts. However, it is also an average bank like others. It is a bank of Nepalese in which any Nepali can invest like in any other sectors; hydro- power, cement factory, health sector and so on. There are various working modalities in different organizations. Some apply bottom to top modality, some of them apply top to bottom pyramid whereas we are making a proper balance between these popular models. Next distinctive feature of Mega bank is that we have tried to incorporate people from all walks of life as the human capitals. Through this practice, we want to develop a mixed and unique culture and value among our workforces&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the most memorable moment of his life: (with pleasant smile): &nbsp;&ldquo;It was when I was in love with my wife Rati Shah. Actually it was a great moment for me which brought a drastic change in my family as well as in professional life, too&rdquo;. However, marriage can&rsquo;t be narrowed just to carry out the household activities, cohabitation and to born the babies rather it deserves something more. Marriage is a union and sharing between two hearts which eventually pushes ahead and helps to achieve the life goal successfully.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the most cheerful and the most heartbreaking moment of your life?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Aarya Shah, my only loving daughter, was the greatest achievement in my life whereas the demise of my father on 13th Feb 2010 was the most terrorizing moment ever in my life&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are you strong at ?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s communication. I believe I can communicate with people very well. Next, I am good at motivating team. If we communicate and motivate people, we can get the things done successfully on time. Moreover, I learn from people no matter who they are. Similarly, I have clear vision, plan and determination&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the motivating factors for his success, Shah reveals that it is his high ambition and positive attitude which pushes individual always a step ahead. We need to love and value our work. Similarly, a single person can&rsquo;t do something significant. So, we have to learn to work in team creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;synergy. Team synergy definitely results into success.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked a question about his palate he says that he adorns Nepali food like Dal, Bhat, Tama, mutton with skin, tomato pickle etc. very much.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To Anil Shah, clear vision, productive human capital and placement of the right person on right position are the three major principal tips which possibly can strengthen the corporate business. &nbsp; Vision is the first step of success. We have to invest our capital for people rather than for the physical aspects. If we succeed to satisfy our customers, it definitely results into sustainability and success of the entire business organization.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah eyes life and business in the same horizontal line. Both life and business are great puzzle and uncertain which we need to handle wisely foreseeing the future. Like in business there are various aspects in life, too. If one aspect is missed to incorporate properly, then it makes the life as well as the business bizarre. A professionally tycoon also may fail to manage family, social life and responsibility bringing disaster and vice versa. Hence, we have to make a proper balance among all these aspects like profession, family, friends, societal and so on in our life to make it really meaningful.</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20' ), (int) 1 => array( 'id' => '102', 'category_id' => '47', 'model' => 'social', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Anil_Shah_CEO_Mega_Bank - Copy 1.jpg', 'model_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Get involved:Anil Shah,CEO,Mega Bank', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A household name in Nepal, Anil Shah, in his own words remarks: &ldquo;Loves change, thrives in change.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to seven different schools in Nepal and India, then he left for Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he found himself working for a Walt-Disney production movie.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But this was just the beginning of changing environment and places for this budding young star, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years to molding him into a superb entrepreneur and one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal which is currently going through a revolutionary change.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs 3,500. Later, he became the head of Consumer Bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling and he moved from Standard Chartered Bank to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a &lsquo;practical&rsquo; and &lsquo;ideal sense.&rsquo; He says that the bank has now twelve hundred promoters spread over sixty three districts and investment worth Rs 1 million to Rs 10 million mostly from people of middle-level families.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Being a successful entrepreneur or a businessman in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea, according to Shah, &ldquo;When you are doing business in Nepal, complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. &lsquo;Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,&rdquo; says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Citing an example from his own experience to support his argument, he adds, &ldquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put them in proper places and I have succeeded. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others&rsquo; mistakes and successes.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His experience spans several years and his philosophy of leadership is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on, &ldquo;First, understand the person you are working with. Second, understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver. Lastly, determine what leadership style you want to follow to complete your goals&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To the entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME&rsquo;s), Shah says, &ldquo;From banking side, this is an opportune time because we are completely over-banked in a classical market. Top businesses have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal, every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are an SME then the time is ripe for you, because it&rsquo;s time for banks to search for new markets.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&ldquo;We have to get involved and talk, because if we continue to stay in the sideline, we don&rsquo;t have the right to say others have not done well. We should be involved not against anyone but for our voice to be heard,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah says he loves Nepal because he sees everyone happy. &ldquo;Everyone is smiling all the time even when they have to walk six hours on foot to fetch water or when there is a lack of medicine even for diarrhoea. This is because our satisfaction is too low, we have the highest mountain in the world but we summit too early.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to him, unconsciously or consciously, we always have an inferiority complex with our two big neighbors. &ldquo;We go for our study in India. We go there as a tourist. We even go to die in Banaras. But as soon as we return from India, we start calling them bad names. But I am very happy to see the young generation who are thinking differently and positively.&rdquo; To Shah, the best minds of Nepal can still serve Nepal now by going overseas. Not only is money flowing back as remittances but also the skills and expertise. British Gurkha can be cited as classic example of this, he contends. &ldquo;Nepal will pull those skilled Nepalis back only if we can put the act together and make a sound political environment here in the country.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48' ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'id' => '213', 'guthy_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Anil Shah', 'model' => 'Guthy', 'model_id' => '0', 'caption' => '', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Individual guthi 999x333/Anil_Shah.jpg', 'active' => '1', 'weight' => '125', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:52:27', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:52:53' ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ) $guthiCatagories = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '48', 'name' => 'Volunteer', 'slug' => 'volunteer', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '49', 'name' => 'Actor', 'slug' => 'actor', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '51', 'name' => 'Lions Club Members', 'slug' => 'lions-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '52', 'name' => 'Jaycees Club Members', 'slug' => 'jaycees-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22' ) ) ) $projects = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( 'id' => '32', 'flag' => '1', 'model' => 'personalities', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai foundation', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/PROJECT/MOTIVATION_copy.jpg', 'description' => '<p> Rajesh Payal Rai foundation</p> ', 'start_time' => '2016-09-13', 'end_time' => '2017-09-13', 'volunteer_skill' => '', 'cost' => '', 'created' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'modified' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'location' => '', 'featured' => '1' ) ) ) $activities = array() $guthy = array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Popular Song Of The Year &ndash; Darshan Namaste</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annaurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;And yes, we also have a project in the pipeline whereby we will be collaborating with Nabil Bank to provide remittance service in the remote villages,&rdquo; he adds. Actually, Dr Mahabir Pun has so many projects, both ongoing and planned, that I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he has forgotten to mention at least another half dozen! And he does look a bit tired. We ask him to stand in front of Model Hospital for a photograph. A few people look at him with some curiosity, probably wondering who he is. This is because he is so completely unassuming and dressed so carelessly. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because he has so little time for such mundane things.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He is going to Pokhara the next day, he says, and I feel happy for him that he has managed to take some time from his extremely busy schedule to spend some days with his wife and two daughters who live there. His parents live in Chitwan along with his sister. Mahabir Pun was born in Nangi, in Myagdi District; it&rsquo;s a village for which he naturally holds a very special part in his heart. He has set up the Himanchal Educational Foundation to specifically support education and development projects in his birthplace. Naturally, he is a hero to his hometown folks as much as he is a hero to the nation, having earned well deserved recognition from international organizations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He was elected an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, USA, in 2002, and the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 awarded by the Global Ideas Bank of the UK. The University of Nebraska, from where he did his higher studies, invited him for their winter commencement speech (a high honor indeed!) in December 2007, when he was also conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. But his biggest moment was undoubtedly when he won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 for Community Leadership from Asia&rsquo;s esteemed Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping in mind the high tempo of his many activities, possible only because of his total commitment, one can rest assured that Mahabir Pun is well in line to receive many more awards both nationally and internationally. At the same time, knowing the nature of the man, one shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to know that the pleasure he gets when teleconferencing with villagers in his hometown of Nangi holds more value to him than do awards.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27', 'modified' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27' ) ) ) $events = array() $flexs = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '159', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Ani Choying Drolma', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/ani_choing.jpg', 'about_us' => '<p> Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. Ani is also known by the names Ani Choying and Choying Dolma. &nbsp;She was born on 4<sup>th </sup>of June 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun renowned for her numerous humanitarian efforts including the education of young girls, care of older people, and providing medical services for the underprivileged and dispossessed. Ani Choying Dolma is an exceptional singer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world. People are moved to tears by the plaintive purity of her voice, and the haunting melodies of her ancient songs and hymns, passed from master to pupil for many centuries.</p> <p> She is known to the world as a singing nun, her calm face beams with tranquility and her soothing voice gets tears of contentment roll down from every eye.</p> <p> From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a bloody beating from her father, without Ani fearing for her mother&#39;s life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away. Ani found herself at a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. She found her vocation in offering other young girls an education, a fundamental right that is primarily reserved for men only in her country. In fact, 80 per cent of women in the Himalayas are illiterate. In 2000, Ani Choying opened Arya Tara School just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another until they became sixty. Before long she needed more funding to keep her growing community afloat and it was her music that ultimately provided the funding. Even so, royalties from her recordings cannot provide all the money needed to sustain and develop the school and Ani&rsquo;s other programs. Today, she needs your help too. In Singing for Freedom, Ani tells her sometimes shocking, always inspiring story &ndash; leaving us with a deep rooted admiration for the person and the burning desire to support her endeavors.</p> <p> In 1997, Ani began performing and recording her music for audiences around the world. She was discovered by a young American guitarist named Steve Tibbett&rsquo;s who heard her chanting. Upon returning to Nepal, he recorded her and subsequently added accompaniment; the result being the bestselling album called Cho. Since then, she has gone on to record multiple CDs and gained international fame and popularity.</p> <p> Ani Choying supports her many charitable activities by performing worldwide singing traditional and modernized Buddhist chants as well as Nepali and Tibetan songs.&nbsp; She has performed for countless fans. She is a charming, attractive, vibrant and eloquent performer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world.</p> <p> Ani Choying believes, if given equal opportunities, nuns have the potential to make the world a better place. One of her great and early accomplishments was the creation of the Arya Tara School, which was opened in 2000. The school aims to equip nuns with the abilities and skills necessary to professionally serve their communities in a humanitarian capacity. Arya Tara School helps young nuns harness their compassion in effective, meaningful ways. &ldquo;Traditionally,&rdquo; says Ani, &ldquo;women&rsquo;s education is neglected in Asia. Most of the girls at my nunnery are from rural areas where women are expected just to cook, clean and bear children. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> राजेश पायल राई</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म मिति -वि.स. २०३२ असोज १४ गते</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म स्थान-खोटाङ,बुइपा</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पिता &ndash; रत्न राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> माता -सञ्चलक्ष्मी राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> संगीत यात्रा सुरु-२०४५</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पहिलो गीत &ndash; रेडियो नेपालमा रेकर्डिङ भयको सम्झनाको कुरा नगर</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> <strong>एकल एल्बम</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; मुर्छना २०५२, पूर्वमा रङ चढेछ ०५३,जष्ट फर यू ०५४ ,लभ लेटर ०५५,&nbsp;बैगुनी&nbsp;रैछौ मायालु ०५६,निगाह ०५८, जदौ २०६१,कामना ०६३,जदौ&ndash;२ ०६५,दर्शन नमस्ते ०६६,राई ईज किङ २०६८ ,जदौ ३<br /> फैलियो माया दुबो सरि&nbsp;र&nbsp;&nbsp;बैगुनी रैछौ&nbsp;मायालु जस्ता&nbsp;गीतबाट निकै सफल भयका राईले राई ईज किङ सम्म आईपुग्दा पछिल्लो पुस्तामा नम्बर वान गायकको समेत &nbsp;पाईसकेका छन् । विभिन्न चलचित्रमा समेत स्वर दिएका राजेश पायल चलचित्रका कलाकार पनि हुन् । उनले दैवसंजोग, दौतरी, परेनि माया जालैमा, सी&nbsp;माला तथा गुण्डाराजमा सशक्त अभिनय गरेका छन् । यस्तै करिब ३ सय पचास चलचित्रमा स्वर समेत दिएका राईले पहिलो पटक २०५४ सालमा अशोक शर्माको चलचित्र गरिबको तीन वटा गीतमा आफ्नो स्वर दिएका थिए । त्यसपछी चलचित्रमा पार्श्व&nbsp;&nbsp;गायनमा उनी ब्यस्त भइ रहेका छन् ।विश्वका प्राय सवै चर्चित मुलक भ्रमण गर्नुको साथै कन्सर्ट गरेका राईले २०५३ सालमा पहिलो विदेश भ्रमण हंगकंग गएका&nbsp;&nbsp;थिए । जहाँ&nbsp;&nbsp;उनको जिवनको पहिलो वैदेशिक कन्सर्ट थियो ।<br /> २०६० साल असार १२ गते विराटनगरको रिभ्स डिजीटल रेर्कडिङ स्टूडियोमा ५ घण्टामा ९ वटा गीत रेकर्ड गराएका थिए । सम्भवत: विश्वमै यसरी ५ घण्टामा ९ गीत रेकर्ड गर्ने उनी नै पहिला गायक हुन।<br /> गायक राईले २०६६ सालमा रिलिज भएको चलचित्र शिलशिलाबाट विभिन्न अवार्ड समेत जिते । यस्तै उनी २०६७ मा छिन्नलता पुरस्कार तथा अन्य पुरस्कारबाट पनि सम्मानित एवं पुरस्कृत भइ सकेका छन् ।</p> ', 'slug' => 'rajesh-payal-rai', 'per_first_name' => 'Rajesh ', 'per_middle_name' => 'Payal ', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-12 16:17:20', 'modified' => '2016-12-30 13:16:20' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 2 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 3 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '140', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/anil_shahi.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anil shahi is the top guitarist of nepal.He has been spending his life playing guitar for about 30 yrs.He started playing guitar at the age of 10.He was inspired by his uncle.He has spent most of the time in foreign countries, exploring his talent..He has been to malaysia and played over there as a music guitarist.Then after he returned nepal and worked as a teacher in an institute for few yrs but wasnt interested in teaching stuff.Again he went to london and worked as fusion guitarist over there..He has worked in kuala lampur for 1 yr and england for 5 yrs&hellip;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He started his career very casually actually getiing in this line was not his intention.Once he was sitting with his frens having fun drinking beer,singing and at that time his freind called him in one restaurant to play guitar on friday,he went there played guitar and everyone appreciated him.So his fren told him to get involved professionally, he got shocked hearing this because he never thought of this before.Again nepal ambassador for uk called him for ambassy programme in this way his career started.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He loves playing every kind of music but his speciality is eastern classical ragas and flamingo.He is a very simple person.He is married and has one son who is also interested in guitar.</span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shahi', 'per_first_name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => ' 9803630638', 'per_email' => 'anil_shahi@hotmail.com', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-28 12:53:03', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 12:58:42' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 4 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '136', 'category_id' => '56', 'name' => 'puspa basnet', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/puspa_jee.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award, which she subsequently won in 2012.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in Social Work at St. Xavier&#39;s College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children living with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees (roughly $885) from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization -The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children, in 2005.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year round while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 100 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2009, sponsored by ChangeFusion Nepal, she started a program to coach parents to make handicrafts inside the cell. The main objective of the program is to make the female prisoners as well as former prisoners to become involved in income generating activities through which they can sustain their livelihood and contribute towards raising their children.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">She, along with her organization, coordinate with prison administrators to rescue children behind bars throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal, and help them break the cycle of crime and poverty.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognizing her effort as the first of a kind in Nepal, many local organizations have pledged their help to raise fund for Basnet.Major donations for Basnet&#39;s organization has come from The Glasswaters Foundation, Shikshya Foundation Nepal and Sundar Sansar. The center collects donations through various fund raising programs and individual donations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, a local organization helped raise 370,000 ruppees (roughly $4,600) for her organization through various national and international donation programs.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2 December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as;-</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;It&#39;s not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they haven&#39;t done anything wrong...My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls.&quot;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CNN Heroes culminated in a global telecast honoring the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 on 20 September. 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He was ranked the 99th richest person in Australia in the 2015 BRW Rich 200.3rd richest man in Nepal. Ghale was graduated in Master of Civil Engineering from Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine from 1979 to 1986 which was the scholarship program of the government of Nepal. He then returned and worked for Department of Transport Management as an engineer in a highway development project. In 1990, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to do further studies where he completed Master of Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia in 1994. Ghale is CEO and founder of Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is known for his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting" title="Method acting"><span style="color:#000000;">method acting</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. He and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Krishna_Shrestha" title="Madan Krishna Shrestha"><span style="color:#000000;">Madan Krishna Shrestha</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;make up the comedy duo&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaHa" title="MaHa"><span style="color:#000000;">MaHa Jodi</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Acharya is also a writer by profession. He has written several books based on social sectors, which were awarded various national prizes.&nbsp;</span><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">China Harayeko Manxe</em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;is his masterpiece, and is one of the best selling books of&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nepal"><span style="color:#000000;">Nepal</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha Acharya&#39;s father&rsquo;s name is Homanjaya Acharya and his mother&rsquo;s name is Ganesh Kumari. Born on 27th Kartik 2014 BS (9 October 1958) in Gairidhara, Kathmandu, Hari Bansha Acharya married Meera Acharya in 2040 BS. He has two sons, Trilok Acharya and Mohit Acharya. Hari Bansha&#39;s wife</span><sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bansha_Acharya#cite_note-1"><span style="color:#000000;">[1]</span></a></sup><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Meera Acharya died from a stroke on April 20, 2011. She was suffering from heart disease.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha started his career by performing with Hari Prasad Rimal and Jitendra Mahat Avilashi in 2031 BS on Radio Nepal, then the only radio station in Nepal. In 2032, Hari Bansha Acharya joined Rastriya Naach Ghar. He had participated in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijatra" title="Gaijatra"><span style="color:#000000;">Gaijatra</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Mahotsav in 2034 BS that upsurged his fame. Before performing with Madan Krishna Shrestha and becoming a part of the MAHA Jodi, he had struggled in the entertainment field alone for 6 years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya has also played in films.&nbsp;<em>Lovipapi</em>,&nbsp;<em>Filim</em>,&nbsp;<em>Rajamati</em>,&nbsp;<em>Silu</em>,&nbsp;<em>Balidaan</em>,&nbsp;<em>Je Bho Ramrai bho</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tan ta sarhai bigrish ni badri</em>&nbsp;are some of his popular films that were immensely popular in the Nepali film industry. Some of his remarkable comedy series like&nbsp;<em>Lal Purja</em>,&nbsp;<em>Pandra Gatay</em>,&nbsp;<em>Bhakunde Bhoot</em>,&nbsp;<em>Series of Hari Bahadur and Madan Bahadur</em>,&nbsp;<em>50/50</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Dashain ko Chyangra</em>, will be cherished by Nepalese even after many years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya and his comedy duo are active in social life and were very much noted for their effort in the April Uprising in Nepal, which dethroned the monarchy. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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Shah is one among a handful of highly successful people who have achieved their professional triumph within a short span of two decades. Amazingly he started his banking career as a &ldquo;trainee&rdquo; which is supposed to be a low profile job from present Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Ltd.&ldquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment to his responsibility brought him to the top of this highly lucrative job today. &ldquo;Clear vision, team commitment and proper job placement are the secret tips for the successful accomplishment of any organizational goals&rdquo;, he adds.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born in 1966 to his parents; late Dr. Narayan Keshari Shah and Bindeshwori Shah, Anil Shah received his school education from seven different schools of Kathmandu. Having the academic degree of A- level followed by BBA, he did his MBA degree in Marketing from India. Interestingly, Shah also was the first Nepali citizen to have been appointed as the CEO in Nabil Bank Ltd, a joint Venture Bank in Nepal. Currently, he is more popular as the towering paid CEO of Nepal. His varied experiences, dedication, innovative managerial skill, and proper mobilization of team are some of the strengths Shah deserves and have wonderfully brought him to this state of what Shah is today.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, Shah views the world as a narrow scape due to communication and globalization where people have been wandering from one corner of the world to another without knowing their strengths and value. As a result, they have been the victim of their own because of the lack of their self realization and actualization. One should be intelligent and studious in order to make the life meaningful, stresses Anil Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He shares the secrets of his management style in a connotative way, &ldquo;Just like there is a band master in an orchestra who binds all the members together with equal value recognizing their individual strength, I also find out what they are good at and accordingly I assign them various tasks. I provide them full freedom and let them work independently. Understanding their intelligence is very important to me&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How is Mega Bank different from other Banks?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It is probably the only bank in Nepal which has 1219 promoters from 63 different districts. However, it is also an average bank like others. It is a bank of Nepalese in which any Nepali can invest like in any other sectors; hydro- power, cement factory, health sector and so on. There are various working modalities in different organizations. Some apply bottom to top modality, some of them apply top to bottom pyramid whereas we are making a proper balance between these popular models. Next distinctive feature of Mega bank is that we have tried to incorporate people from all walks of life as the human capitals. Through this practice, we want to develop a mixed and unique culture and value among our workforces&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the most memorable moment of his life: (with pleasant smile): &nbsp;&ldquo;It was when I was in love with my wife Rati Shah. Actually it was a great moment for me which brought a drastic change in my family as well as in professional life, too&rdquo;. However, marriage can&rsquo;t be narrowed just to carry out the household activities, cohabitation and to born the babies rather it deserves something more. Marriage is a union and sharing between two hearts which eventually pushes ahead and helps to achieve the life goal successfully.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the most cheerful and the most heartbreaking moment of your life?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Aarya Shah, my only loving daughter, was the greatest achievement in my life whereas the demise of my father on 13th Feb 2010 was the most terrorizing moment ever in my life&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are you strong at ?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s communication. I believe I can communicate with people very well. Next, I am good at motivating team. If we communicate and motivate people, we can get the things done successfully on time. Moreover, I learn from people no matter who they are. Similarly, I have clear vision, plan and determination&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the motivating factors for his success, Shah reveals that it is his high ambition and positive attitude which pushes individual always a step ahead. We need to love and value our work. Similarly, a single person can&rsquo;t do something significant. So, we have to learn to work in team creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;synergy. Team synergy definitely results into success.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked a question about his palate he says that he adorns Nepali food like Dal, Bhat, Tama, mutton with skin, tomato pickle etc. very much.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To Anil Shah, clear vision, productive human capital and placement of the right person on right position are the three major principal tips which possibly can strengthen the corporate business. &nbsp; Vision is the first step of success. We have to invest our capital for people rather than for the physical aspects. If we succeed to satisfy our customers, it definitely results into sustainability and success of the entire business organization.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah eyes life and business in the same horizontal line. Both life and business are great puzzle and uncertain which we need to handle wisely foreseeing the future. Like in business there are various aspects in life, too. If one aspect is missed to incorporate properly, then it makes the life as well as the business bizarre. A professionally tycoon also may fail to manage family, social life and responsibility bringing disaster and vice versa. Hence, we have to make a proper balance among all these aspects like profession, family, friends, societal and so on in our life to make it really meaningful.</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20' ), (int) 1 => array( 'id' => '102', 'category_id' => '47', 'model' => 'social', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Anil_Shah_CEO_Mega_Bank - Copy 1.jpg', 'model_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Get involved:Anil Shah,CEO,Mega Bank', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A household name in Nepal, Anil Shah, in his own words remarks: &ldquo;Loves change, thrives in change.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to seven different schools in Nepal and India, then he left for Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he found himself working for a Walt-Disney production movie.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But this was just the beginning of changing environment and places for this budding young star, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years to molding him into a superb entrepreneur and one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal which is currently going through a revolutionary change.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs 3,500. Later, he became the head of Consumer Bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling and he moved from Standard Chartered Bank to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a &lsquo;practical&rsquo; and &lsquo;ideal sense.&rsquo; He says that the bank has now twelve hundred promoters spread over sixty three districts and investment worth Rs 1 million to Rs 10 million mostly from people of middle-level families.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Being a successful entrepreneur or a businessman in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea, according to Shah, &ldquo;When you are doing business in Nepal, complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. &lsquo;Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,&rdquo; says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Citing an example from his own experience to support his argument, he adds, &ldquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put them in proper places and I have succeeded. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others&rsquo; mistakes and successes.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His experience spans several years and his philosophy of leadership is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on, &ldquo;First, understand the person you are working with. Second, understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver. Lastly, determine what leadership style you want to follow to complete your goals&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To the entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME&rsquo;s), Shah says, &ldquo;From banking side, this is an opportune time because we are completely over-banked in a classical market. Top businesses have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal, every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are an SME then the time is ripe for you, because it&rsquo;s time for banks to search for new markets.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&ldquo;We have to get involved and talk, because if we continue to stay in the sideline, we don&rsquo;t have the right to say others have not done well. We should be involved not against anyone but for our voice to be heard,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah says he loves Nepal because he sees everyone happy. &ldquo;Everyone is smiling all the time even when they have to walk six hours on foot to fetch water or when there is a lack of medicine even for diarrhoea. This is because our satisfaction is too low, we have the highest mountain in the world but we summit too early.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to him, unconsciously or consciously, we always have an inferiority complex with our two big neighbors. &ldquo;We go for our study in India. We go there as a tourist. We even go to die in Banaras. But as soon as we return from India, we start calling them bad names. But I am very happy to see the young generation who are thinking differently and positively.&rdquo; To Shah, the best minds of Nepal can still serve Nepal now by going overseas. Not only is money flowing back as remittances but also the skills and expertise. British Gurkha can be cited as classic example of this, he contends. &ldquo;Nepal will pull those skilled Nepalis back only if we can put the act together and make a sound political environment here in the country.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48' ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'id' => '213', 'guthy_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Anil Shah', 'model' => 'Guthy', 'model_id' => '0', 'caption' => '', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Individual guthi 999x333/Anil_Shah.jpg', 'active' => '1', 'weight' => '125', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:52:27', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:52:53' ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ) $guthiCatagories = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '48', 'name' => 'Volunteer', 'slug' => 'volunteer', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '49', 'name' => 'Actor', 'slug' => 'actor', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '51', 'name' => 'Lions Club Members', 'slug' => 'lions-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '52', 'name' => 'Jaycees Club Members', 'slug' => 'jaycees-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22' ) ) ) $projects = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( 'id' => '32', 'flag' => '1', 'model' => 'personalities', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai foundation', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/PROJECT/MOTIVATION_copy.jpg', 'description' => '<p> Rajesh Payal Rai foundation</p> ', 'start_time' => '2016-09-13', 'end_time' => '2017-09-13', 'volunteer_skill' => '', 'cost' => '', 'created' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'modified' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'location' => '', 'featured' => '1' ) ) ) $activities = array() $guthy = array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Popular Song Of The Year &ndash; Darshan Namaste</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annaurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;And yes, we also have a project in the pipeline whereby we will be collaborating with Nabil Bank to provide remittance service in the remote villages,&rdquo; he adds. Actually, Dr Mahabir Pun has so many projects, both ongoing and planned, that I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he has forgotten to mention at least another half dozen! And he does look a bit tired. We ask him to stand in front of Model Hospital for a photograph. A few people look at him with some curiosity, probably wondering who he is. This is because he is so completely unassuming and dressed so carelessly. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because he has so little time for such mundane things.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He is going to Pokhara the next day, he says, and I feel happy for him that he has managed to take some time from his extremely busy schedule to spend some days with his wife and two daughters who live there. His parents live in Chitwan along with his sister. Mahabir Pun was born in Nangi, in Myagdi District; it&rsquo;s a village for which he naturally holds a very special part in his heart. He has set up the Himanchal Educational Foundation to specifically support education and development projects in his birthplace. Naturally, he is a hero to his hometown folks as much as he is a hero to the nation, having earned well deserved recognition from international organizations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He was elected an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, USA, in 2002, and the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 awarded by the Global Ideas Bank of the UK. The University of Nebraska, from where he did his higher studies, invited him for their winter commencement speech (a high honor indeed!) in December 2007, when he was also conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. But his biggest moment was undoubtedly when he won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 for Community Leadership from Asia&rsquo;s esteemed Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping in mind the high tempo of his many activities, possible only because of his total commitment, one can rest assured that Mahabir Pun is well in line to receive many more awards both nationally and internationally. At the same time, knowing the nature of the man, one shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to know that the pleasure he gets when teleconferencing with villagers in his hometown of Nangi holds more value to him than do awards.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27', 'modified' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27' ) ) ) $events = array() $flexs = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '159', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Ani Choying Drolma', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/ani_choing.jpg', 'about_us' => '<p> Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. Ani is also known by the names Ani Choying and Choying Dolma. &nbsp;She was born on 4<sup>th </sup>of June 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun renowned for her numerous humanitarian efforts including the education of young girls, care of older people, and providing medical services for the underprivileged and dispossessed. Ani Choying Dolma is an exceptional singer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world. People are moved to tears by the plaintive purity of her voice, and the haunting melodies of her ancient songs and hymns, passed from master to pupil for many centuries.</p> <p> She is known to the world as a singing nun, her calm face beams with tranquility and her soothing voice gets tears of contentment roll down from every eye.</p> <p> From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a bloody beating from her father, without Ani fearing for her mother&#39;s life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away. Ani found herself at a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. She found her vocation in offering other young girls an education, a fundamental right that is primarily reserved for men only in her country. In fact, 80 per cent of women in the Himalayas are illiterate. In 2000, Ani Choying opened Arya Tara School just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another until they became sixty. Before long she needed more funding to keep her growing community afloat and it was her music that ultimately provided the funding. Even so, royalties from her recordings cannot provide all the money needed to sustain and develop the school and Ani&rsquo;s other programs. Today, she needs your help too. In Singing for Freedom, Ani tells her sometimes shocking, always inspiring story &ndash; leaving us with a deep rooted admiration for the person and the burning desire to support her endeavors.</p> <p> In 1997, Ani began performing and recording her music for audiences around the world. She was discovered by a young American guitarist named Steve Tibbett&rsquo;s who heard her chanting. Upon returning to Nepal, he recorded her and subsequently added accompaniment; the result being the bestselling album called Cho. Since then, she has gone on to record multiple CDs and gained international fame and popularity.</p> <p> Ani Choying supports her many charitable activities by performing worldwide singing traditional and modernized Buddhist chants as well as Nepali and Tibetan songs.&nbsp; She has performed for countless fans. She is a charming, attractive, vibrant and eloquent performer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world.</p> <p> Ani Choying believes, if given equal opportunities, nuns have the potential to make the world a better place. One of her great and early accomplishments was the creation of the Arya Tara School, which was opened in 2000. The school aims to equip nuns with the abilities and skills necessary to professionally serve their communities in a humanitarian capacity. Arya Tara School helps young nuns harness their compassion in effective, meaningful ways. &ldquo;Traditionally,&rdquo; says Ani, &ldquo;women&rsquo;s education is neglected in Asia. Most of the girls at my nunnery are from rural areas where women are expected just to cook, clean and bear children. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> राजेश पायल राई</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म मिति -वि.स. २०३२ असोज १४ गते</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म स्थान-खोटाङ,बुइपा</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पिता &ndash; रत्न राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> माता -सञ्चलक्ष्मी राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> संगीत यात्रा सुरु-२०४५</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पहिलो गीत &ndash; रेडियो नेपालमा रेकर्डिङ भयको सम्झनाको कुरा नगर</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> <strong>एकल एल्बम</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; मुर्छना २०५२, पूर्वमा रङ चढेछ ०५३,जष्ट फर यू ०५४ ,लभ लेटर ०५५,&nbsp;बैगुनी&nbsp;रैछौ मायालु ०५६,निगाह ०५८, जदौ २०६१,कामना ०६३,जदौ&ndash;२ ०६५,दर्शन नमस्ते ०६६,राई ईज किङ २०६८ ,जदौ ३<br /> फैलियो माया दुबो सरि&nbsp;र&nbsp;&nbsp;बैगुनी रैछौ&nbsp;मायालु जस्ता&nbsp;गीतबाट निकै सफल भयका राईले राई ईज किङ सम्म आईपुग्दा पछिल्लो पुस्तामा नम्बर वान गायकको समेत &nbsp;पाईसकेका छन् । विभिन्न चलचित्रमा समेत स्वर दिएका राजेश पायल चलचित्रका कलाकार पनि हुन् । उनले दैवसंजोग, दौतरी, परेनि माया जालैमा, सी&nbsp;माला तथा गुण्डाराजमा सशक्त अभिनय गरेका छन् । यस्तै करिब ३ सय पचास चलचित्रमा स्वर समेत दिएका राईले पहिलो पटक २०५४ सालमा अशोक शर्माको चलचित्र गरिबको तीन वटा गीतमा आफ्नो स्वर दिएका थिए । त्यसपछी चलचित्रमा पार्श्व&nbsp;&nbsp;गायनमा उनी ब्यस्त भइ रहेका छन् ।विश्वका प्राय सवै चर्चित मुलक भ्रमण गर्नुको साथै कन्सर्ट गरेका राईले २०५३ सालमा पहिलो विदेश भ्रमण हंगकंग गएका&nbsp;&nbsp;थिए । जहाँ&nbsp;&nbsp;उनको जिवनको पहिलो वैदेशिक कन्सर्ट थियो ।<br /> २०६० साल असार १२ गते विराटनगरको रिभ्स डिजीटल रेर्कडिङ स्टूडियोमा ५ घण्टामा ९ वटा गीत रेकर्ड गराएका थिए । सम्भवत: विश्वमै यसरी ५ घण्टामा ९ गीत रेकर्ड गर्ने उनी नै पहिला गायक हुन।<br /> गायक राईले २०६६ सालमा रिलिज भएको चलचित्र शिलशिलाबाट विभिन्न अवार्ड समेत जिते । यस्तै उनी २०६७ मा छिन्नलता पुरस्कार तथा अन्य पुरस्कारबाट पनि सम्मानित एवं पुरस्कृत भइ सकेका छन् ।</p> ', 'slug' => 'rajesh-payal-rai', 'per_first_name' => 'Rajesh ', 'per_middle_name' => 'Payal ', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-12 16:17:20', 'modified' => '2016-12-30 13:16:20' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 2 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 3 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '140', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/anil_shahi.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anil shahi is the top guitarist of nepal.He has been spending his life playing guitar for about 30 yrs.He started playing guitar at the age of 10.He was inspired by his uncle.He has spent most of the time in foreign countries, exploring his talent..He has been to malaysia and played over there as a music guitarist.Then after he returned nepal and worked as a teacher in an institute for few yrs but wasnt interested in teaching stuff.Again he went to london and worked as fusion guitarist over there..He has worked in kuala lampur for 1 yr and england for 5 yrs&hellip;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He started his career very casually actually getiing in this line was not his intention.Once he was sitting with his frens having fun drinking beer,singing and at that time his freind called him in one restaurant to play guitar on friday,he went there played guitar and everyone appreciated him.So his fren told him to get involved professionally, he got shocked hearing this because he never thought of this before.Again nepal ambassador for uk called him for ambassy programme in this way his career started.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He loves playing every kind of music but his speciality is eastern classical ragas and flamingo.He is a very simple person.He is married and has one son who is also interested in guitar.</span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shahi', 'per_first_name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => ' 9803630638', 'per_email' => 'anil_shahi@hotmail.com', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-28 12:53:03', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 12:58:42' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 4 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '136', 'category_id' => '56', 'name' => 'puspa basnet', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/puspa_jee.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award, which she subsequently won in 2012.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in Social Work at St. Xavier&#39;s College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children living with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees (roughly $885) from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization -The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children, in 2005.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year round while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 100 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2009, sponsored by ChangeFusion Nepal, she started a program to coach parents to make handicrafts inside the cell. The main objective of the program is to make the female prisoners as well as former prisoners to become involved in income generating activities through which they can sustain their livelihood and contribute towards raising their children.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">She, along with her organization, coordinate with prison administrators to rescue children behind bars throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal, and help them break the cycle of crime and poverty.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognizing her effort as the first of a kind in Nepal, many local organizations have pledged their help to raise fund for Basnet.Major donations for Basnet&#39;s organization has come from The Glasswaters Foundation, Shikshya Foundation Nepal and Sundar Sansar. The center collects donations through various fund raising programs and individual donations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, a local organization helped raise 370,000 ruppees (roughly $4,600) for her organization through various national and international donation programs.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2 December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as;-</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;It&#39;s not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they haven&#39;t done anything wrong...My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls.&quot;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CNN Heroes culminated in a global telecast honoring the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 on 20 September. 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He was ranked the 99th richest person in Australia in the 2015 BRW Rich 200.3rd richest man in Nepal. Ghale was graduated in Master of Civil Engineering from Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine from 1979 to 1986 which was the scholarship program of the government of Nepal. He then returned and worked for Department of Transport Management as an engineer in a highway development project. In 1990, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to do further studies where he completed Master of Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia in 1994. Ghale is CEO and founder of Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is known for his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting" title="Method acting"><span style="color:#000000;">method acting</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. He and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Krishna_Shrestha" title="Madan Krishna Shrestha"><span style="color:#000000;">Madan Krishna Shrestha</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;make up the comedy duo&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaHa" title="MaHa"><span style="color:#000000;">MaHa Jodi</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Acharya is also a writer by profession. He has written several books based on social sectors, which were awarded various national prizes.&nbsp;</span><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">China Harayeko Manxe</em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;is his masterpiece, and is one of the best selling books of&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nepal"><span style="color:#000000;">Nepal</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha Acharya&#39;s father&rsquo;s name is Homanjaya Acharya and his mother&rsquo;s name is Ganesh Kumari. Born on 27th Kartik 2014 BS (9 October 1958) in Gairidhara, Kathmandu, Hari Bansha Acharya married Meera Acharya in 2040 BS. He has two sons, Trilok Acharya and Mohit Acharya. Hari Bansha&#39;s wife</span><sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bansha_Acharya#cite_note-1"><span style="color:#000000;">[1]</span></a></sup><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Meera Acharya died from a stroke on April 20, 2011. She was suffering from heart disease.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha started his career by performing with Hari Prasad Rimal and Jitendra Mahat Avilashi in 2031 BS on Radio Nepal, then the only radio station in Nepal. In 2032, Hari Bansha Acharya joined Rastriya Naach Ghar. He had participated in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijatra" title="Gaijatra"><span style="color:#000000;">Gaijatra</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Mahotsav in 2034 BS that upsurged his fame. Before performing with Madan Krishna Shrestha and becoming a part of the MAHA Jodi, he had struggled in the entertainment field alone for 6 years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya has also played in films.&nbsp;<em>Lovipapi</em>,&nbsp;<em>Filim</em>,&nbsp;<em>Rajamati</em>,&nbsp;<em>Silu</em>,&nbsp;<em>Balidaan</em>,&nbsp;<em>Je Bho Ramrai bho</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tan ta sarhai bigrish ni badri</em>&nbsp;are some of his popular films that were immensely popular in the Nepali film industry. Some of his remarkable comedy series like&nbsp;<em>Lal Purja</em>,&nbsp;<em>Pandra Gatay</em>,&nbsp;<em>Bhakunde Bhoot</em>,&nbsp;<em>Series of Hari Bahadur and Madan Bahadur</em>,&nbsp;<em>50/50</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Dashain ko Chyangra</em>, will be cherished by Nepalese even after many years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya and his comedy duo are active in social life and were very much noted for their effort in the April Uprising in Nepal, which dethroned the monarchy. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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Shah is one among a handful of highly successful people who have achieved their professional triumph within a short span of two decades. Amazingly he started his banking career as a &ldquo;trainee&rdquo; which is supposed to be a low profile job from present Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Ltd.&ldquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment to his responsibility brought him to the top of this highly lucrative job today. &ldquo;Clear vision, team commitment and proper job placement are the secret tips for the successful accomplishment of any organizational goals&rdquo;, he adds.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born in 1966 to his parents; late Dr. Narayan Keshari Shah and Bindeshwori Shah, Anil Shah received his school education from seven different schools of Kathmandu. Having the academic degree of A- level followed by BBA, he did his MBA degree in Marketing from India. Interestingly, Shah also was the first Nepali citizen to have been appointed as the CEO in Nabil Bank Ltd, a joint Venture Bank in Nepal. Currently, he is more popular as the towering paid CEO of Nepal. His varied experiences, dedication, innovative managerial skill, and proper mobilization of team are some of the strengths Shah deserves and have wonderfully brought him to this state of what Shah is today.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, Shah views the world as a narrow scape due to communication and globalization where people have been wandering from one corner of the world to another without knowing their strengths and value. As a result, they have been the victim of their own because of the lack of their self realization and actualization. One should be intelligent and studious in order to make the life meaningful, stresses Anil Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He shares the secrets of his management style in a connotative way, &ldquo;Just like there is a band master in an orchestra who binds all the members together with equal value recognizing their individual strength, I also find out what they are good at and accordingly I assign them various tasks. I provide them full freedom and let them work independently. Understanding their intelligence is very important to me&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How is Mega Bank different from other Banks?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It is probably the only bank in Nepal which has 1219 promoters from 63 different districts. However, it is also an average bank like others. It is a bank of Nepalese in which any Nepali can invest like in any other sectors; hydro- power, cement factory, health sector and so on. There are various working modalities in different organizations. Some apply bottom to top modality, some of them apply top to bottom pyramid whereas we are making a proper balance between these popular models. Next distinctive feature of Mega bank is that we have tried to incorporate people from all walks of life as the human capitals. Through this practice, we want to develop a mixed and unique culture and value among our workforces&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the most memorable moment of his life: (with pleasant smile): &nbsp;&ldquo;It was when I was in love with my wife Rati Shah. Actually it was a great moment for me which brought a drastic change in my family as well as in professional life, too&rdquo;. However, marriage can&rsquo;t be narrowed just to carry out the household activities, cohabitation and to born the babies rather it deserves something more. Marriage is a union and sharing between two hearts which eventually pushes ahead and helps to achieve the life goal successfully.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the most cheerful and the most heartbreaking moment of your life?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Aarya Shah, my only loving daughter, was the greatest achievement in my life whereas the demise of my father on 13th Feb 2010 was the most terrorizing moment ever in my life&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are you strong at ?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s communication. I believe I can communicate with people very well. Next, I am good at motivating team. If we communicate and motivate people, we can get the things done successfully on time. Moreover, I learn from people no matter who they are. Similarly, I have clear vision, plan and determination&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the motivating factors for his success, Shah reveals that it is his high ambition and positive attitude which pushes individual always a step ahead. We need to love and value our work. Similarly, a single person can&rsquo;t do something significant. So, we have to learn to work in team creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;synergy. Team synergy definitely results into success.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked a question about his palate he says that he adorns Nepali food like Dal, Bhat, Tama, mutton with skin, tomato pickle etc. very much.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To Anil Shah, clear vision, productive human capital and placement of the right person on right position are the three major principal tips which possibly can strengthen the corporate business. &nbsp; Vision is the first step of success. We have to invest our capital for people rather than for the physical aspects. If we succeed to satisfy our customers, it definitely results into sustainability and success of the entire business organization.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah eyes life and business in the same horizontal line. Both life and business are great puzzle and uncertain which we need to handle wisely foreseeing the future. Like in business there are various aspects in life, too. If one aspect is missed to incorporate properly, then it makes the life as well as the business bizarre. A professionally tycoon also may fail to manage family, social life and responsibility bringing disaster and vice versa. Hence, we have to make a proper balance among all these aspects like profession, family, friends, societal and so on in our life to make it really meaningful.</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20' ), (int) 1 => array( 'id' => '102', 'category_id' => '47', 'model' => 'social', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Anil_Shah_CEO_Mega_Bank - Copy 1.jpg', 'model_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Get involved:Anil Shah,CEO,Mega Bank', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A household name in Nepal, Anil Shah, in his own words remarks: &ldquo;Loves change, thrives in change.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to seven different schools in Nepal and India, then he left for Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he found himself working for a Walt-Disney production movie.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But this was just the beginning of changing environment and places for this budding young star, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years to molding him into a superb entrepreneur and one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal which is currently going through a revolutionary change.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs 3,500. Later, he became the head of Consumer Bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling and he moved from Standard Chartered Bank to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a &lsquo;practical&rsquo; and &lsquo;ideal sense.&rsquo; He says that the bank has now twelve hundred promoters spread over sixty three districts and investment worth Rs 1 million to Rs 10 million mostly from people of middle-level families.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Being a successful entrepreneur or a businessman in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea, according to Shah, &ldquo;When you are doing business in Nepal, complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. &lsquo;Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,&rdquo; says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Citing an example from his own experience to support his argument, he adds, &ldquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put them in proper places and I have succeeded. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others&rsquo; mistakes and successes.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His experience spans several years and his philosophy of leadership is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on, &ldquo;First, understand the person you are working with. Second, understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver. Lastly, determine what leadership style you want to follow to complete your goals&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To the entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME&rsquo;s), Shah says, &ldquo;From banking side, this is an opportune time because we are completely over-banked in a classical market. Top businesses have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal, every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are an SME then the time is ripe for you, because it&rsquo;s time for banks to search for new markets.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&ldquo;We have to get involved and talk, because if we continue to stay in the sideline, we don&rsquo;t have the right to say others have not done well. We should be involved not against anyone but for our voice to be heard,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah says he loves Nepal because he sees everyone happy. &ldquo;Everyone is smiling all the time even when they have to walk six hours on foot to fetch water or when there is a lack of medicine even for diarrhoea. This is because our satisfaction is too low, we have the highest mountain in the world but we summit too early.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to him, unconsciously or consciously, we always have an inferiority complex with our two big neighbors. &ldquo;We go for our study in India. We go there as a tourist. We even go to die in Banaras. But as soon as we return from India, we start calling them bad names. But I am very happy to see the young generation who are thinking differently and positively.&rdquo; To Shah, the best minds of Nepal can still serve Nepal now by going overseas. Not only is money flowing back as remittances but also the skills and expertise. British Gurkha can be cited as classic example of this, he contends. &ldquo;Nepal will pull those skilled Nepalis back only if we can put the act together and make a sound political environment here in the country.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48' ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'id' => '213', 'guthy_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Anil Shah', 'model' => 'Guthy', 'model_id' => '0', 'caption' => '', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Individual guthi 999x333/Anil_Shah.jpg', 'active' => '1', 'weight' => '125', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:52:27', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:52:53' ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ) $guthiCatagories = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '48', 'name' => 'Volunteer', 'slug' => 'volunteer', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '49', 'name' => 'Actor', 'slug' => 'actor', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '51', 'name' => 'Lions Club Members', 'slug' => 'lions-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '52', 'name' => 'Jaycees Club Members', 'slug' => 'jaycees-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22' ) ) ) $projects = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( 'id' => '32', 'flag' => '1', 'model' => 'personalities', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai foundation', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/PROJECT/MOTIVATION_copy.jpg', 'description' => '<p> Rajesh Payal Rai foundation</p> ', 'start_time' => '2016-09-13', 'end_time' => '2017-09-13', 'volunteer_skill' => '', 'cost' => '', 'created' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'modified' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'location' => '', 'featured' => '1' ) ) ) $activities = array() $guthy = array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Popular Song Of The Year &ndash; Darshan Namaste</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annaurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;And yes, we also have a project in the pipeline whereby we will be collaborating with Nabil Bank to provide remittance service in the remote villages,&rdquo; he adds. Actually, Dr Mahabir Pun has so many projects, both ongoing and planned, that I wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if he has forgotten to mention at least another half dozen! And he does look a bit tired. We ask him to stand in front of Model Hospital for a photograph. A few people look at him with some curiosity, probably wondering who he is. This is because he is so completely unassuming and dressed so carelessly. Perhaps that&rsquo;s because he has so little time for such mundane things.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He is going to Pokhara the next day, he says, and I feel happy for him that he has managed to take some time from his extremely busy schedule to spend some days with his wife and two daughters who live there. His parents live in Chitwan along with his sister. Mahabir Pun was born in Nangi, in Myagdi District; it&rsquo;s a village for which he naturally holds a very special part in his heart. He has set up the Himanchal Educational Foundation to specifically support education and development projects in his birthplace. Naturally, he is a hero to his hometown folks as much as he is a hero to the nation, having earned well deserved recognition from international organizations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He was elected an Ashoka Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, USA, in 2002, and the Overall Social Innovations Award for 2004 awarded by the Global Ideas Bank of the UK. The University of Nebraska, from where he did his higher studies, invited him for their winter commencement speech (a high honor indeed!) in December 2007, when he was also conferred with an honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters. But his biggest moment was undoubtedly when he won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2007 for Community Leadership from Asia&rsquo;s esteemed Ramon Magsaysay Foundation.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Keeping in mind the high tempo of his many activities, possible only because of his total commitment, one can rest assured that Mahabir Pun is well in line to receive many more awards both nationally and internationally. At the same time, knowing the nature of the man, one shouldn&rsquo;t be surprised to know that the pleasure he gets when teleconferencing with villagers in his hometown of Nangi holds more value to him than do awards.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27', 'modified' => '2016-08-23 15:07:27' ) ) ) $events = array() $flexs = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '159', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Ani Choying Drolma', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/ani_choing.jpg', 'about_us' => '<p> Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun and musician from the Nagi Gompa nunnery in Nepal. Ani is also known by the names Ani Choying and Choying Dolma. &nbsp;She was born on 4<sup>th </sup>of June 1971 in Kathmandu Nepal. Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepalese Buddhist nun renowned for her numerous humanitarian efforts including the education of young girls, care of older people, and providing medical services for the underprivileged and dispossessed. Ani Choying Dolma is an exceptional singer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world. People are moved to tears by the plaintive purity of her voice, and the haunting melodies of her ancient songs and hymns, passed from master to pupil for many centuries.</p> <p> She is known to the world as a singing nun, her calm face beams with tranquility and her soothing voice gets tears of contentment roll down from every eye.</p> <p> From the age of five, Ani Choying had to struggle to survive. Not a day went by without a bloody beating from her father, without Ani fearing for her mother&#39;s life or her own. The day her father nearly stabbed her to death, she decided it was time to run away. Ani found herself at a monastery in Nepal, where a Buddhist monk offered her sanctuary and understanding, teaching her to embrace life again. She found her vocation in offering other young girls an education, a fundamental right that is primarily reserved for men only in her country. In fact, 80 per cent of women in the Himalayas are illiterate. In 2000, Ani Choying opened Arya Tara School just outside Kathmandu. She went on to adopt a little girl, then two, and then another until they became sixty. Before long she needed more funding to keep her growing community afloat and it was her music that ultimately provided the funding. Even so, royalties from her recordings cannot provide all the money needed to sustain and develop the school and Ani&rsquo;s other programs. Today, she needs your help too. In Singing for Freedom, Ani tells her sometimes shocking, always inspiring story &ndash; leaving us with a deep rooted admiration for the person and the burning desire to support her endeavors.</p> <p> In 1997, Ani began performing and recording her music for audiences around the world. She was discovered by a young American guitarist named Steve Tibbett&rsquo;s who heard her chanting. Upon returning to Nepal, he recorded her and subsequently added accompaniment; the result being the bestselling album called Cho. Since then, she has gone on to record multiple CDs and gained international fame and popularity.</p> <p> Ani Choying supports her many charitable activities by performing worldwide singing traditional and modernized Buddhist chants as well as Nepali and Tibetan songs.&nbsp; She has performed for countless fans. She is a charming, attractive, vibrant and eloquent performer, admired by fans in Nepal and throughout the world.</p> <p> Ani Choying believes, if given equal opportunities, nuns have the potential to make the world a better place. One of her great and early accomplishments was the creation of the Arya Tara School, which was opened in 2000. The school aims to equip nuns with the abilities and skills necessary to professionally serve their communities in a humanitarian capacity. Arya Tara School helps young nuns harness their compassion in effective, meaningful ways. &ldquo;Traditionally,&rdquo; says Ani, &ldquo;women&rsquo;s education is neglected in Asia. Most of the girls at my nunnery are from rural areas where women are expected just to cook, clean and bear children. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> राजेश पायल राई</p> <ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(109, 109, 109); text-align: justify;"> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म मिति -वि.स. २०३२ असोज १४ गते</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> जन्म स्थान-खोटाङ,बुइपा</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पिता &ndash; रत्न राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> माता -सञ्चलक्ष्मी राई</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> संगीत यात्रा सुरु-२०४५</li> <li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> पहिलो गीत &ndash; रेडियो नेपालमा रेकर्डिङ भयको सम्झनाको कुरा नगर</li> </ul> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-family: Arial, Georgia, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; text-align: justify; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);"> <strong>एकल एल्बम</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; मुर्छना २०५२, पूर्वमा रङ चढेछ ०५३,जष्ट फर यू ०५४ ,लभ लेटर ०५५,&nbsp;बैगुनी&nbsp;रैछौ मायालु ०५६,निगाह ०५८, जदौ २०६१,कामना ०६३,जदौ&ndash;२ ०६५,दर्शन नमस्ते ०६६,राई ईज किङ २०६८ ,जदौ ३<br /> फैलियो माया दुबो सरि&nbsp;र&nbsp;&nbsp;बैगुनी रैछौ&nbsp;मायालु जस्ता&nbsp;गीतबाट निकै सफल भयका राईले राई ईज किङ सम्म आईपुग्दा पछिल्लो पुस्तामा नम्बर वान गायकको समेत &nbsp;पाईसकेका छन् । विभिन्न चलचित्रमा समेत स्वर दिएका राजेश पायल चलचित्रका कलाकार पनि हुन् । उनले दैवसंजोग, दौतरी, परेनि माया जालैमा, सी&nbsp;माला तथा गुण्डाराजमा सशक्त अभिनय गरेका छन् । यस्तै करिब ३ सय पचास चलचित्रमा स्वर समेत दिएका राईले पहिलो पटक २०५४ सालमा अशोक शर्माको चलचित्र गरिबको तीन वटा गीतमा आफ्नो स्वर दिएका थिए । त्यसपछी चलचित्रमा पार्श्व&nbsp;&nbsp;गायनमा उनी ब्यस्त भइ रहेका छन् ।विश्वका प्राय सवै चर्चित मुलक भ्रमण गर्नुको साथै कन्सर्ट गरेका राईले २०५३ सालमा पहिलो विदेश भ्रमण हंगकंग गएका&nbsp;&nbsp;थिए । जहाँ&nbsp;&nbsp;उनको जिवनको पहिलो वैदेशिक कन्सर्ट थियो ।<br /> २०६० साल असार १२ गते विराटनगरको रिभ्स डिजीटल रेर्कडिङ स्टूडियोमा ५ घण्टामा ९ वटा गीत रेकर्ड गराएका थिए । सम्भवत: विश्वमै यसरी ५ घण्टामा ९ गीत रेकर्ड गर्ने उनी नै पहिला गायक हुन।<br /> गायक राईले २०६६ सालमा रिलिज भएको चलचित्र शिलशिलाबाट विभिन्न अवार्ड समेत जिते । यस्तै उनी २०६७ मा छिन्नलता पुरस्कार तथा अन्य पुरस्कारबाट पनि सम्मानित एवं पुरस्कृत भइ सकेका छन् ।</p> ', 'slug' => 'rajesh-payal-rai', 'per_first_name' => 'Rajesh ', 'per_middle_name' => 'Payal ', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => '', 'org_name' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-12 16:17:20', 'modified' => '2016-12-30 13:16:20' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 3 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 2 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 2 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 3 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '140', 'category_id' => '50', 'name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/anil_shahi.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Anil shahi is the top guitarist of nepal.He has been spending his life playing guitar for about 30 yrs.He started playing guitar at the age of 10.He was inspired by his uncle.He has spent most of the time in foreign countries, exploring his talent..He has been to malaysia and played over there as a music guitarist.Then after he returned nepal and worked as a teacher in an institute for few yrs but wasnt interested in teaching stuff.Again he went to london and worked as fusion guitarist over there..He has worked in kuala lampur for 1 yr and england for 5 yrs&hellip;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He started his career very casually actually getiing in this line was not his intention.Once he was sitting with his frens having fun drinking beer,singing and at that time his freind called him in one restaurant to play guitar on friday,he went there played guitar and everyone appreciated him.So his fren told him to get involved professionally, he got shocked hearing this because he never thought of this before.Again nepal ambassador for uk called him for ambassy programme in this way his career started.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He loves playing every kind of music but his speciality is eastern classical ragas and flamingo.He is a very simple person.He is married and has one son who is also interested in guitar.</span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shahi', 'per_first_name' => 'Anil Shahi', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => ' 9803630638', 'per_email' => 'anil_shahi@hotmail.com', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-08-28 12:53:03', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 12:58:42' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), (int) 4 => array( 'Guthy' => array( 'id' => '136', 'category_id' => '56', 'name' => 'puspa basnet', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Profile pic 150x150/puspa_jee.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet is a social worker and the Founder/President of Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) and Butterfly Home, non-profit organizations, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Her organization works to strengthen the rights of children living behind bars with their incarcerated parents.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Her efforts have been recognized by national and international media since she was nominated for CNN Heroes Award, which she subsequently won in 2012.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Basnet started her career at the age of 21, while she was still an undergraduate in Social Work at St. Xavier&#39;s College, Kathmandu. As part of her college assignment, she visited the women prison in Kathmandu. She was dismayed when she saw children living with their parents behind the bars. She raised 70,000 rupees (roughly $885) from her close friends and sister, and started a non-profit organization -The Early Childhood Development Center (ECDC) to provide a day care program to the children, in 2005.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2007, she opened a residential home for kids to live outside the prison year round while still visiting their mothers on holidays. Today, she has assisted more than 100 children of incarcerated parents. She runs a day care center for the prison children and a residential home for older ones. She has also helped to provide alternative residence, school enrollment, free meals and medical care to them.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 2009, sponsored by ChangeFusion Nepal, she started a program to coach parents to make handicrafts inside the cell. The main objective of the program is to make the female prisoners as well as former prisoners to become involved in income generating activities through which they can sustain their livelihood and contribute towards raising their children.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">She, along with her organization, coordinate with prison administrators to rescue children behind bars throughout urban and rural areas of Nepal, and help them break the cycle of crime and poverty.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recognizing her effort as the first of a kind in Nepal, many local organizations have pledged their help to raise fund for Basnet.Major donations for Basnet&#39;s organization has come from The Glasswaters Foundation, Shikshya Foundation Nepal and Sundar Sansar. The center collects donations through various fund raising programs and individual donations.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Recently, a local organization helped raise 370,000 ruppees (roughly $4,600) for her organization through various national and international donation programs.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Pushpa Basnet has been awarded with CNN Hero Award 2012, which was held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday, 2 December. Academy Award winning actress Susan Sarandon presented Basnet with the award. The show was aired LIVE through CNN.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When earlier interviewed by CNN, she commented on her venture as;-</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;It&#39;s not fair for (these) children to live in the prison because they haven&#39;t done anything wrong...My mission is to make sure no child grows up behind prison walls.&quot;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">CNN Heroes culminated in a global telecast honoring the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2012 on 20 September. 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He was ranked the 99th richest person in Australia in the 2015 BRW Rich 200.3rd richest man in Nepal. Ghale was graduated in Master of Civil Engineering from Kharkov Automobile and Highway Institute of Kharkiv, Ukraine from 1979 to 1986 which was the scholarship program of the government of Nepal. He then returned and worked for Department of Transport Management as an engineer in a highway development project. In 1990, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to do further studies where he completed Master of Business Administration from Victoria University, Australia in 1994. Ghale is CEO and founder of Melbourne Institute of Technology. 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He is one of the most successful and respected comedians in the Nepalese entertainment industry. He is known for his&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_acting" title="Method acting"><span style="color:#000000;">method acting</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">. He and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madan_Krishna_Shrestha" title="Madan Krishna Shrestha"><span style="color:#000000;">Madan Krishna Shrestha</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;make up the comedy duo&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaHa" title="MaHa"><span style="color:#000000;">MaHa Jodi</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Acharya is also a writer by profession. He has written several books based on social sectors, which were awarded various national prizes.&nbsp;</span><em style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">China Harayeko Manxe</em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">&nbsp;is his masterpiece, and is one of the best selling books of&nbsp;</span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Nepal"><span style="color:#000000;">Nepal</span></a><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">.</span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha Acharya&#39;s father&rsquo;s name is Homanjaya Acharya and his mother&rsquo;s name is Ganesh Kumari. Born on 27th Kartik 2014 BS (9 October 1958) in Gairidhara, Kathmandu, Hari Bansha Acharya married Meera Acharya in 2040 BS. He has two sons, Trilok Acharya and Mohit Acharya. Hari Bansha&#39;s wife</span><sup id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Bansha_Acharya#cite_note-1"><span style="color:#000000;">[1]</span></a></sup><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Meera Acharya died from a stroke on April 20, 2011. She was suffering from heart disease.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">Hari Bansha started his career by performing with Hari Prasad Rimal and Jitendra Mahat Avilashi in 2031 BS on Radio Nepal, then the only radio station in Nepal. In 2032, Hari Bansha Acharya joined Rastriya Naach Ghar. He had participated in&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijatra" title="Gaijatra"><span style="color:#000000;">Gaijatra</span></a><span style="color:#000000;">&nbsp;Mahotsav in 2034 BS that upsurged his fame. Before performing with Madan Krishna Shrestha and becoming a part of the MAHA Jodi, he had struggled in the entertainment field alone for 6 years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya has also played in films.&nbsp;<em>Lovipapi</em>,&nbsp;<em>Filim</em>,&nbsp;<em>Rajamati</em>,&nbsp;<em>Silu</em>,&nbsp;<em>Balidaan</em>,&nbsp;<em>Je Bho Ramrai bho</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Tan ta sarhai bigrish ni badri</em>&nbsp;are some of his popular films that were immensely popular in the Nepali film industry. Some of his remarkable comedy series like&nbsp;<em>Lal Purja</em>,&nbsp;<em>Pandra Gatay</em>,&nbsp;<em>Bhakunde Bhoot</em>,&nbsp;<em>Series of Hari Bahadur and Madan Bahadur</em>,&nbsp;<em>50/50</em>, and&nbsp;<em>Dashain ko Chyangra</em>, will be cherished by Nepalese even after many years.</span></span></span></h3> <h3> <span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hari Bansha Acharya and his comedy duo are active in social life and were very much noted for their effort in the April Uprising in Nepal, which dethroned the monarchy. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. 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Shah is one among a handful of highly successful people who have achieved their professional triumph within a short span of two decades. Amazingly he started his banking career as a &ldquo;trainee&rdquo; which is supposed to be a low profile job from present Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Ltd.&ldquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">High ambition, positive attitude, dedication, and commitment to his responsibility brought him to the top of this highly lucrative job today. &ldquo;Clear vision, team commitment and proper job placement are the secret tips for the successful accomplishment of any organizational goals&rdquo;, he adds.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Born in 1966 to his parents; late Dr. Narayan Keshari Shah and Bindeshwori Shah, Anil Shah received his school education from seven different schools of Kathmandu. Having the academic degree of A- level followed by BBA, he did his MBA degree in Marketing from India. Interestingly, Shah also was the first Nepali citizen to have been appointed as the CEO in Nabil Bank Ltd, a joint Venture Bank in Nepal. Currently, he is more popular as the towering paid CEO of Nepal. His varied experiences, dedication, innovative managerial skill, and proper mobilization of team are some of the strengths Shah deserves and have wonderfully brought him to this state of what Shah is today.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">However, Shah views the world as a narrow scape due to communication and globalization where people have been wandering from one corner of the world to another without knowing their strengths and value. As a result, they have been the victim of their own because of the lack of their self realization and actualization. One should be intelligent and studious in order to make the life meaningful, stresses Anil Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">He shares the secrets of his management style in a connotative way, &ldquo;Just like there is a band master in an orchestra who binds all the members together with equal value recognizing their individual strength, I also find out what they are good at and accordingly I assign them various tasks. I provide them full freedom and let them work independently. Understanding their intelligence is very important to me&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">How is Mega Bank different from other Banks?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It is probably the only bank in Nepal which has 1219 promoters from 63 different districts. However, it is also an average bank like others. It is a bank of Nepalese in which any Nepali can invest like in any other sectors; hydro- power, cement factory, health sector and so on. There are various working modalities in different organizations. Some apply bottom to top modality, some of them apply top to bottom pyramid whereas we are making a proper balance between these popular models. Next distinctive feature of Mega bank is that we have tried to incorporate people from all walks of life as the human capitals. Through this practice, we want to develop a mixed and unique culture and value among our workforces&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the most memorable moment of his life: (with pleasant smile): &nbsp;&ldquo;It was when I was in love with my wife Rati Shah. Actually it was a great moment for me which brought a drastic change in my family as well as in professional life, too&rdquo;. However, marriage can&rsquo;t be narrowed just to carry out the household activities, cohabitation and to born the babies rather it deserves something more. Marriage is a union and sharing between two hearts which eventually pushes ahead and helps to achieve the life goal successfully.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are the most cheerful and the most heartbreaking moment of your life?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Aarya Shah, my only loving daughter, was the greatest achievement in my life whereas the demise of my father on 13th Feb 2010 was the most terrorizing moment ever in my life&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What are you strong at ?</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;It&rsquo;s communication. I believe I can communicate with people very well. Next, I am good at motivating team. If we communicate and motivate people, we can get the things done successfully on time. Moreover, I learn from people no matter who they are. Similarly, I have clear vision, plan and determination&rdquo;.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked about the motivating factors for his success, Shah reveals that it is his high ambition and positive attitude which pushes individual always a step ahead. We need to love and value our work. Similarly, a single person can&rsquo;t do something significant. So, we have to learn to work in team creating &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;synergy. Team synergy definitely results into success.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When asked a question about his palate he says that he adorns Nepali food like Dal, Bhat, Tama, mutton with skin, tomato pickle etc. very much.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To Anil Shah, clear vision, productive human capital and placement of the right person on right position are the three major principal tips which possibly can strengthen the corporate business. &nbsp; Vision is the first step of success. We have to invest our capital for people rather than for the physical aspects. If we succeed to satisfy our customers, it definitely results into sustainability and success of the entire business organization.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah eyes life and business in the same horizontal line. Both life and business are great puzzle and uncertain which we need to handle wisely foreseeing the future. Like in business there are various aspects in life, too. If one aspect is missed to incorporate properly, then it makes the life as well as the business bizarre. A professionally tycoon also may fail to manage family, social life and responsibility bringing disaster and vice versa. Hence, we have to make a proper balance among all these aspects like profession, family, friends, societal and so on in our life to make it really meaningful.</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:59:20' ), (int) 1 => array( 'id' => '102', 'category_id' => '47', 'model' => 'social', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Anil_Shah_CEO_Mega_Bank - Copy 1.jpg', 'model_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Get involved:Anil Shah,CEO,Mega Bank', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">A household name in Nepal, Anil Shah, in his own words remarks: &ldquo;Loves change, thrives in change.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to seven different schools in Nepal and India, then he left for Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he found himself working for a Walt-Disney production movie.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But this was just the beginning of changing environment and places for this budding young star, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years to molding him into a superb entrepreneur and one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal which is currently going through a revolutionary change.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs 3,500. Later, he became the head of Consumer Bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling and he moved from Standard Chartered Bank to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a &lsquo;practical&rsquo; and &lsquo;ideal sense.&rsquo; He says that the bank has now twelve hundred promoters spread over sixty three districts and investment worth Rs 1 million to Rs 10 million mostly from people of middle-level families.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Being a successful entrepreneur or a businessman in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea, according to Shah, &ldquo;When you are doing business in Nepal, complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work within the system is the formula for success, he says. &lsquo;Unless you work within the system, you will not succeed and once you learn to work within the system the success is yours,&rdquo; says Shah.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Citing an example from his own experience to support his argument, he adds, &ldquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put them in proper places and I have succeeded. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others&rsquo; mistakes and successes.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">His experience spans several years and his philosophy of leadership is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on, &ldquo;First, understand the person you are working with. Second, understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver. Lastly, determine what leadership style you want to follow to complete your goals&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">To the entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises (SME&rsquo;s), Shah says, &ldquo;From banking side, this is an opportune time because we are completely over-banked in a classical market. Top businesses have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal, every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are an SME then the time is ripe for you, because it&rsquo;s time for banks to search for new markets.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&nbsp;&ldquo;We have to get involved and talk, because if we continue to stay in the sideline, we don&rsquo;t have the right to say others have not done well. We should be involved not against anyone but for our voice to be heard,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shah says he loves Nepal because he sees everyone happy. &ldquo;Everyone is smiling all the time even when they have to walk six hours on foot to fetch water or when there is a lack of medicine even for diarrhoea. This is because our satisfaction is too low, we have the highest mountain in the world but we summit too early.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">According to him, unconsciously or consciously, we always have an inferiority complex with our two big neighbors. &ldquo;We go for our study in India. We go there as a tourist. We even go to die in Banaras. But as soon as we return from India, we start calling them bad names. But I am very happy to see the young generation who are thinking differently and positively.&rdquo; To Shah, the best minds of Nepal can still serve Nepal now by going overseas. Not only is money flowing back as remittances but also the skills and expertise. British Gurkha can be cited as classic example of this, he contends. &ldquo;Nepal will pull those skilled Nepalis back only if we can put the act together and make a sound political environment here in the country.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 15:06:48' ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'id' => '213', 'guthy_id' => '145', 'title' => 'Anil Shah', 'model' => 'Guthy', 'model_id' => '0', 'caption' => '', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/Individual guthi 999x333/Anil_Shah.jpg', 'active' => '1', 'weight' => '125', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:52:27', 'modified' => '2016-09-01 14:52:53' ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ) $guthiCatagories = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '48', 'name' => 'Volunteer', 'slug' => 'volunteer', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:41:04' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '49', 'name' => 'Actor', 'slug' => 'actor', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:48:51' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '50', 'name' => 'Singers and musicians', 'slug' => 'singers-and-musicians', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:12:29' ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '51', 'name' => 'Lions Club Members', 'slug' => 'lions-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:18:07' ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( 'id' => '52', 'name' => 'Jaycees Club Members', 'slug' => 'jaycees-club-members', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22', 'modified' => '2016-06-04 10:19:22' ) ) ) $projects = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( 'id' => '32', 'flag' => '1', 'model' => 'personalities', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh Payal Rai foundation', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/PROJECT/MOTIVATION_copy.jpg', 'description' => '<p> Rajesh Payal Rai foundation</p> ', 'start_time' => '2016-09-13', 'end_time' => '2017-09-13', 'volunteer_skill' => '', 'cost' => '', 'created' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'modified' => '2016-09-26 13:47:29', 'location' => '', 'featured' => '1' ) ) ) $activities = array() $guthy = array( 'id' => '145', 'category_id' => '47', 'name' => 'Anil Shah', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/anil_kesari_shah.jpg', 'about_us' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">Anil Shah&#39;s career started as a teller in 1991, where he made Rs. 3,500 per month. As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. 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As if that wasn&#39;t insulting enough to his</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; color: rgb(29, 33, 41); line-height: 18px;">&nbsp;&quot;ivy-leagueish&quot; education from George Washington University and FMS Delhi, he was repeatedly told by friends and family that he was making a mistake. Having been born to diplomat parents but wanting to try something new, he says &quot;People told me it would take ten lifetimes to make the money invested in my education. But I have always wanted to get out of my comfort zone.&quot;<br /> <br /> Anil excelled at Standard Chartered, and his career advanced rapidly, proving his sceptics wrong. He rose to become the General Manager of the bank and in 2004, he was appointed as CEO of Nabil Bank &ndash; the first Nepali CEO of a joint venture bank in Nepal. But he didn&#39;t exactly become complacent: at Nabil, he doubled the amount of loans and deposits, making it the largest bank in Nepal.<br /> <br /> To celebrate his success, Anil, in his characteristic style, quit this position to start a new venture called Mega Bank, of which he is the CEO. Anil says he wants to use a &quot;plough to power&quot; economic model in his bank to include not just the big asset clients but also the country&#39;s farmers and the teashop owners. &quot;We want inclusion from the roots. We want to lead new Nepal&#39;s economic agenda,&quot; he says. And something about him makes you think, he might be just the man to do it.<br /> <br /> Anil Keshari Shah, currently the CEO of Mega Bank and a household name in Nepal, in his own words &lsquo;loves change, thrives in change&rsquo;. He shared his story of his life among 80 young entrepreneurs during the Last Thursday&rsquo;s program on April 29th, 2010 organized by Entrepreneurs for Nepal, Samriddhi and Change Fusion.<br /> <br /> In fact, change has been the mantra of his living. As a kid, he went to sevendifferent schools in Nepal and India, then he left to Washington for his college; when he came back to Nepal to do something, he worked for a Walt-Disney production movie. But this was just the beginning of changing environments and places for a young Anil Shah, who attributes the experience and outlook gathered in all those years of change for making him the one of the best suited people to live in a country like Nepal right now which is going through not an evolutionary but a revolutionary change.<br /> <br /> When he first set foot in the banking sector, Anil Shah joined Nepal Grindlays Bank which would later become Standard Chartered Bank in an assisting position with a starting salary of Rs.3,500 to later become the Head of consumer bank and Chief Operating Officer there. Yet again, change was his calling as from Standard Chartered bank, he moved on to Nabil Bank and became the CEO in one year. In his five years as a CEO in Nabil Bank, the institution saw unprecedented success and it became the number one bank in Nepal. Right now, he is the CEO of Mega Bank which according to Shah is a bank which has brought inclusiveness from the root itself in a practical and ideal sense, that being the bank&rsquo;s 1219 promoters, spread over 63 districts and investment mostly from people of middle level family from10 lakhs to 1 Crore rupees.<br /> <br /> Being a successful entrepreneur or a business person in Nepal is not everyone&rsquo;s cup of tea and according to Shah, when you are doing business in Nepal, the first thing to realize is that you are doing business in Nepal; complaining and blaming the conditions won&rsquo;t do you any good. Stepping out of the comfort zone and trying to work in the system is the formula to success. &lsquo;Until you work in the system you will not succeed and once you learn to work in the system the success is yours&rsquo; says Shah. Giving his own example he adds &lsquo;I have not invented any wheels by myself, I have taken out different wheels from different places and put it in the proper places and I have succeeded. I see which things work where and put the right wheel in right place and make a move. If you want to be one step ahead of your competitors, you must be able to learn from others mistakes, others success.&rsquo;<br /> <br /> His philosophy on the leadership he has taken over the years in different places is that if the institution or the team he headed were a band or an orchestra, he considers himself a conductor. He explains he has succeeded because he has believed in his orchestra and everybody who played the instruments in an orchestra knew how to play their respective instruments better than him. His job was to bring all of them together and deliver the result by coordinating them. According to him, as a leader, there are only three things one should focus on,<br /> <br /> First, understand the person you are working with, then understand the work, the task and the time you want to deliver, and lastly, determine what leadership style you want to implement to get your goals done.<br /> <br /> Speaking to entrepreneurs who are starting off and are in Small and Medium Enterprises i.e. SME&rsquo;s, Shah says, from banking side this is the best time, because we are completely over banked in a classical market, so top business have 28 banks running after them so you have to find a new market and that market is SME&rsquo;s. In Nepal every house has at least one shutter and each shutter has a SME. If you are in SME than, its the time for you, because its time for banks to search for new markets.</span></span></span></h3> ', 'slug' => 'anil-shah', 'per_first_name' => '', 'per_middle_name' => '', 'last_name' => null, 'per_mobile_number' => '', 'per_email' => 'anilkesharyshah@gmail.com ; anil.shah@megabank.com.np', 'org_name' => '', 'org_contact' => '', 'org_email' => '', 'org_address' => '', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'code' => 'pg', 'csr_points' => '0', 'show_flag' => '1', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-09-01 14:48:09', 'modified' => '2016-12-28 15:01:18' ), 'Category' => array( 'id' => '47', 'name' => 'Banker', 'slug' => 'banker', 'guthi_type' => '2', 'published' => '1', 'created' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38', 'modified' => '2016-06-03 14:29:38' ), 'Event' => array(), 'Article' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ), (int) 1 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Activity' => array(), 'Slide' => array( (int) 0 => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), 'Project' => array(), 'Product' => array() ), 'guthiCatagories' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 4 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ), (int) 5 => array( 'Category' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ) ), 'projects' => array( (int) 0 => array( 'Project' => array( [maximum depth reached] ) ) ), 'activities' => array() ) $setting = array( 'Site.title' => 'guthidotcom', 'Site.tagline' => 'Guthi.com', 'Site.email' => 'aa.sanjit@gmail.com', 'Site.theme' => '', 'Site.feed_url' => '', 'Site.locale' => 'eng', 'Site.date_time_format' => 'D, M d Y H:i:s', 'Site.timezone' => 'Asia/Kathmandu', 'Site.active' => '1', 'mantraCMS.version' => '2.0', 'Meta.robots' => 'index, follow', 'Meta.keywords' => 'GuthiDotCom', 'Meta.description' => 'GuthiDotCom', 'Meta.generator' => 'MantraCMS - Content Management System', 'Site.logo' => 'Site.logo.jpg', 'Site.favicon' => '', 'Social.facebook' => 'https://www.facebook.com/pages/Guthidotcom/243875402344389', 'Social.twitter' => '', 'Social.google_plus' => '', 'Email.signature' => '<div> Sincerely,</div> <div> Admin</div> <div> Guthidotcom</div> ', 'Site.geo-lt' => '27.721631', 'Site.geo-lg' => '85.323238', 'Site.slogan' => ' “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” -Mahatma Gandhi ' ) $indislide = true $guthi_type = (int) 2 $title_for_layout = 'individual_personalities Guthi' $articles = array( (int) 0 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '105', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://www.guthi.com/explorer/data/files/maxresdefault_2_1024x576.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'MAHABIR PUN: Making Nangi Part of the Digital World', 'description' => '<div> Necessity is indeed the mother of invention. &nbsp;Through his ingenuity, his desire to help his community and his Greatness of Spirit, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee MAHABIR PUN was able to connect his small mountain village to the digital world. &nbsp;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> Mahabir Pun explains why he brought wireless internet access to his hometown village of Nangi in the Nepalese mountains as &ldquo;The main reason we started this networking project is because I needed that, I needed internet in the village.&rdquo; He laughs. &ldquo;Until that time I used to come to Pokhara &hellip; at least once a month to check my emails and send emails and to come again because there was no internet in the village. I did that for several years&hellip;. I was tired of coming down here just to communicate.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> A decade after deciding he no longer wanted to spend half the day traveling to the nearest internet caf&eacute; to read his emails, Pun&rsquo;s wish has been realized. Nangi is one of the dozen villages linked to a single wireless network enjoying the ability to communicate from a distance. And for his efforts, Pun is this year&rsquo;s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership.</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> <div> This is the story of how Mahabir Pun got his wireless network: One day in late 1992, a man in his mid-thirties arrived in the Nepalese village of Nangi. That&rsquo;s not necessarily unusual; tourists have flocked to Nepal for decades, inspired in part by its connection to the fabled paradise Shangri-La. Still, Nangi isn&rsquo;t exactly easily accessible: the Himanchal Education Foundation&rsquo;s website says that from the international airport in the capital city of Kathmandu, it&rsquo;s seven hours by bus (or a half-hour by plane) into Pokhara City, followed by a five hour car trip to the nearest major town (Beni), and then a nine-hour hike to &ndash; finally &ndash; reach Nangi. As Pun himself told BBC News in 2001, &ldquo;If we walk about six or seven hours outward in any direction from our village and ask the people where Nangi is most of [them] will have no idea.&rdquo;</div> <div> &nbsp;</div> ', 'created' => '2017-05-22 15:23:28', 'modified' => '2017-05-22 16:05:59' ) ), (int) 1 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '104', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/test picture/logo size/45.jpg', 'model_id' => '149', 'title' => 'Rajesh payal rai: Young Achiever', 'description' => '<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Became a prominent singer of the country in such a young age. As a son of soldier, he was also influenced to jointhe British Armed Forces. However, he had an avid interest and thirst to sing, which he fulfilled by singing folklores and limited modern songs aired from Radio Nepal,in his villages.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Probably, destined to be a singer, he was praised for his melodious voice and encouraged to continue singing.He took a voice test at his very first attempt and when he was just studying in grade eight.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> This event added confidence to rai and now he would think of taking up music as a profession.He recorded &ldquo;failiyo maya dubo sari&rdquo;in 1992, after he came to Kathmandu on completion of his high school.He never had to look back ever since.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Instantly, he was requested to record new songs and perform live on stage programmes.Offers of foreign trips for musical programmes started flooding him.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> On his profession he continues to work hard and give better songs to the audience .He has already sung for one hundred eighty nepali movies,setting a new record in the hisory of nepali film industries.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh , who was known as a modern &amp; filmy singer, has also ventured into folk singing with the release of his folk album jadow &amp; jadow-2.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> Rajesh had already peoved his versatility in singing in the past 15 years.from light songs like nagbeli nagbeli, malai pani angrejima ,Darshan namaste,Sagar sari to sentimental songs like baiguni raichow mayalu,Timilai roje. Rajesh has fared well in all geners.Young singer Rajeshpayal also exhibits a lot of sincere patriotism through his songs.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> In the course of performing on stage shows, Rajesh has traveled to Hongkong(16 times) South Korea, Australia ,Singapore, Malaysia,Japan,U.K.and Gulf countries , among others, to perform for the Nepali,diaspore, he also went for a Nepal tour singing in all 14 zones.</p> <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> <strong><em>Awards</em></strong></p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <tbody> <tr> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Title</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Year</th> <th style="font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); text-align: center; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Label</th> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Gold Medal Radio Nepal Modern Song Competition</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1995</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Radio Nepal</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Narayan Gopal Yuba Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2005</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Chinnalata Prativa Puraskar</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Playback Singer- Film Chunauti</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1997</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kollywood Cine Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> National Vision Busy Award</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 1998</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Song Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year &mdash; Kamana, Album Of The Year &mdash; Kamana</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year, Best Male Playback Singer</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2007</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2008</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annapurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Folk Song Of The Year &ndash; Jadou 2</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Tuborg Image Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Popular Song Of The Year &ndash; Darshan Namaste</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Annaurna Fm Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2009</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2010</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kantipur FM 96.1 Annual Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Best Pop Singer Of The Year</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Kalika FM Music Award</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Album Of The Year &ndash; Rai Is King</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> 2011</td> <td style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdena, sans-serif; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 0.2em;"> Hits FM Music Award<br /> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> &nbsp;</p> ', 'created' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03', 'modified' => '2016-09-13 11:05:03' ) ), (int) 2 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '94', 'category_id' => '50', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => '', 'model_id' => '140', 'title' => '"I want to make people dance," guitarist Anil Shahi asserts', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&quot;I want to make people dance,&quot; guitarist Anil Shahi asserts with fixated eyes. He picks up his Samick solid wood guitar and slides his fingers across the strings &ndash; saying it wouldn&#39;t be enough, he would rather you hear it for yourself.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Raising his voice above the vibrations, he explains: &quot;This semi-acoustic guitar is used especially for Spanish tunes.&quot; While tangy flamenco is quickly filling up the air, a hint of an Indian raga allure does not escape the ears, and the complexity of fusing east and west is what makes his music both exotic and euphoric at the same time.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Shahi&#39;s Spanish musical influence comes from the Gipsy Kings, who are credited for bringing traditional flamenco to mainstream culture. But through performing at hotspots in the Valley, he found an international audience that was receptive not only to flamenco, but also to his eastern classical infusions.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After all, eastern classical music is where his infatuation really lies. &quot;That&#39;s real music to me,&quot; he reveals while picking up another guitar, this time a black Takamine. It&#39;s easy to see why raga tugs not only on his guitar strings but also his heartstrings &ndash; he practically grew up with it. After picking up his uncle&#39;s guitar at the age of 12, he travelled to Varanasi, India to learn the sounds of the classical ragas and has not turned back since.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">An upbringing of playing the flute and percussions at local social functions, an education in raga music and much fervour for the western acoustic guitar all put together gave birth to Shahi, a fusion guitarist. It has taken him places, and he animatedly recalls his trip to Malaysia a decade ago: &quot;It was my first time performing in a foreign country and I met people from all over the world. Though we didn&#39;t understand each other, making music together was amazing.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Such spontaneity is how his band, Maya Mantra, often comes up with their varied and almost unpredictable tunes. Apart from Shahi&#39;s vivacious twangs, flutist Binod Katuwal breathes out dreamy Arabic-like landscapes while tabla player Pritnam adds to that a tribal beat that echoes life drumming against the earth. The synergy of the band&#39;s music plants you in different places all at once &ndash; a dandy flamenco chord may first set you in the mood, then an indulgent classical Indian scale rises up, after which everything escalates into a burst of another flamenco chord, a more ecstatic one at this instance, and the rapture leaves you yearning for a bit more.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">This is happiness for Shahi &ndash; to make his own music and see it being appreciated. Yet happiness comes at a hefty price, and when Shahi was younger his practices include numbing his fingers in a bucket of ice before strumming on the guitar. His other method was to hang a half-kilo weight on each hand while playing. &quot;Mastering the guitar needs a lot of hand power,&quot; he explains. &quot;My family thought I was mad!&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Turning the tide, the guitarist would probably be happiest when Nepal finally appreciates fusion music in its entirety. &quot;It&#39;s difficult to make people understand, especially since it&#39;s hard to combine classical music with other kinds of music.&quot; After a short ponder, he reaches a conclusion: &quot;There isn&#39;t a proper platform here for fusion music yet.&quot;&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Still, Shahi may just be the one to set the stage for it. Its past midnight and the crowd he played for are shouting for an encore. Shahi smiles and says, &quot;I just can&#39;t stop when it comes to music.&quot; He walks towards the people and begins a soothing, acoustical rhythm to appease for the night. And it seemed that there and then, nobody wanted him to stop.&nbsp;</span></span></h3> ', 'created' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57', 'modified' => '2016-08-28 13:08:57' ) ), (int) 3 => array( 'Article' => array( 'id' => '93', 'category_id' => '67', 'model' => 'personalities', 'image' => 'http://guthi.com/explorer/data/files/Personalities/articles/Networking_Nepal_The_Mahabir_Pun.jpg', 'model_id' => '104', 'title' => 'Networking Nepal: The Mahabir Pun Story', 'description' => '<h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Electing Mahabir Pun To Receive The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award For Community Leadership, The Board Of Trustees Recognizes His Innovative Application Of Wireless Computer Technology In Nepal, Bringing Progress To Remote Mountain Areas By Connecting His Village To The Global Village. (Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Committee, 2007)&nbsp;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Tomorrow 85 laptops will be coming in from Japan,&rdquo; says Dr Mahabir Pun, the Ramon Magsaysay Awardee of 2007. &ldquo;They have been donated by the International Telecommunication Union.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And where will they be going? &ldquo;They are meant for the &lsquo;One Laptop Per Child&rsquo; program and this batch will probably be sent to the Mustang region,&rdquo; says Pun. He hands over his visiting card which announces &lsquo;Donate One Dollar a Month for Wireless Broadband in Rural Nepal&rsquo; below his name.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Below that are listed Dr Pun&rsquo;s various affiliations to many foundations and projects. These include: Program Director, Himanchal Education Foundation; Ashoka Fellow, Ashoka Foundation; Board Member, National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal; Team Leader, Nepal Wireless Networking Project; Chairman, Institute for Himalayan Conservation, Nepal; Chairman, E-Networking Research and Development; Director, Community Relations, Open Learning Exchange, Nepal; and Vice Chairman, Nepal Research and Education Network. His craggy weather beaten face breaks into a smile as he says, &ldquo;Yes, I am affiliated to many organizations. I only hope that they do the work they are supposed to do.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">We are having our little chat in a tea shop near the Model Hospital in Exhibition Road, Kathmandu. It is after a pretty long wait that I have been able to catch hold of him. His laconic &ldquo;I will be leaving for Pokhara tomorrow, so if you want to meet me you will have to come to the Model Hospital&rdquo; over the phone has brought me here. After a few minutes with him I realize that this hospital is where I should have searched for him earlier since he has a somewhat close relation to it. He points out a six foot tall slim aluminum contraption on its roof. &ldquo;I put that over there. It&rsquo;s the link up to the Dolakha region,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In fact, Dr Pun has linked Dolakha and the hospital via a telemedicine network. But Dolakha is not the only region to be so linked to the hospital. At the moment a team has gone to Gairkhutar village in Trishuli District and Pun is at the Model Hospital to test this new linkage. Other telemedicine linkages already in place are those between the hospital and Hetauda, Pharping, Chatiyan village, Jomsom, and of course, Nangi, Pun&rsquo;s birthplace in Myagdi District central Nepal. Including the telemedicine linkages, says Pun, &ldquo;there are 8,000 villages in Nepal with more than 15 million people living in rural areas. So far we have connected 35 villages in seven districts via the net.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I ask him, &ldquo;About that &lsquo;One Dollar a Day&rsquo; program? How has been the response?&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;Well,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo; we have received about 28,000 dollars till now. Not bad wouldn&rsquo;t you say? This money is being used to link Jiri District.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, funds seem to be the least of his concerns now. &ldquo;Yes,&rdquo; he agrees. &ldquo;Money is not a problem. In fact, the Nepal Telecommunication Authority has about one and a quarter billion rupees lying idle in its Rural Telecommunication Development Fund. It is meant to be invested in building a network all over the country. I believe that if this money is spent well, it would be enough for the purpose without having to again as usual look for foreign aid.&rdquo; He himself is a de facto advisor and tells me that he has recently given a written suggestion about how to utilize this fund. &ldquo;I have said that most of it should be used to build a network among villages.&rdquo; While on the subject, he also says, &ldquo;Even the District Development Committees (DDCs) are willing to chip in. We have already received about 1.8 million rupees each from Makwanpur and Mustang DDCs. I am sure the Village Development Committees will also co-operate by contributing five percent of their income to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Dr Pun is thankful to Model Hospital and to the Nepal Medical College for their involvement. &ldquo;Dr Saroj Dhital, an old friend, is my compatriot and virtually the coordinator for these telemedicine projects. He is happy at the response and says that it is helpful both for diagnostic purposes as well as for continuous-education purposes of health workers in far flung villages. &ldquo;Every morning from 8:15 to 9:15, doctors gather at the Model Hospital to network with the linked villages.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mahabir Pun is also involved with the Open Learning Exchange Nepal project. &ldquo;The Department of Education supplies the educational contents, which we then disseminate through our network.&rdquo; He is the Vice-Chairman of Nepal Research and Education Network. He says that it is meant to develop the sharing of educational material among big colleges and universities worldwide and that about 15 Nepali colleges are already linked to the network.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Currently he is also busy with networking Mustang District. &ldquo;It will link seven schools and some hospitals right up to Muktinath.&rdquo; Dr Pun is also collaborating with Thamel.com, a popular Internet business site, on a project on the Annapurna trekking route whereby trekkers can use their credit cards to pay for goods and services. In addition, with help from the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Dr Pun has built a weather station on a 3,600 m &nbsp;hill in Myagdi District. &ldquo;This will help in researching global warming effects,&rdquo; he says.</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:22px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">&ldquo;The other weather station we are working on is in Larke (in northern Gorkha District) at an altitude of 2,900 m. It should be completed by January 2010. It is supported by National Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal, and should also assist airline pilots on the Pokhara-Jomsom route. In fact, we will be having video monitors on the tower which will give pilots a real-time view of weather and other conditions in the area.&rdquo;</span></span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: justify;"> &nbsp;</h3> <h3 style=&am