Youth Satsang Program in Irving with Guru Chinta Mani Yogi on June 19, 2010

Nepalese Society of Texas (NST) is organizing a Youth Satsang program with Guru Chinta Mani Yogi, who will be talking about how to live a meaningful and fulfilling life, aimed at Nepali youths living in and around DFW Metroplex.

Dr. Chinta Mani Yogi is a well-known scholar of Eastern philosophy, social worker and educationist. He is the founding principal of Hindu Vidya Peeth – Nepal, a non-profit school focused on promoting value-based education as well as helping children from poor families get education.

Dr. Yogi teaches yoga and meditation. He has been coming to Dallas every year since 2008 to conduct Summer Camp, organized annually by NST in coordination with Nepalese Cultural and Spiritual Center (NCSC), where he has been teaching Nepali kids from DFW area about Nepal, Nepali language, Nepali culture and traditional values, Eastern morale and more. He is in Dallas this year for the ongoing third Summer Camp which has been scheduled from June 13, 2010 till June 27, 2010.

Dr. Yogi’s message of non-violence, selfless service, tolerance and inter-religious harmony has inspired Nepalis both inside and outside the country. His past visits to the United States have proved to be very beneficial to many of us self-realization and self-awakening.

We request all Nepali youths living in DFW area to attend the event and benefit yourself from the spiritual discourse with Dr. Chinta Mani Yogi.

Satsang Details
When: Saturday, June 19, 2010 at 6:00 PM
Venue: NST Community Center 940 Belt Line Rd Suite 129, Irving, TX 75061 (Map)
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Bhabika Joshi Recognized by NRN NCC of USA

Bhabika Joshi is a very talented Nepali writer currently residing in Keller, Texas who has already penned a book (Mortal – Hayden Roux Chronicles) at a very young age of fourteen. She was recognized by NRN National Coordination Council of USA for her exceptional accomplishment as a young writer at the Fourth Regional NRN Conference in Houston, Texas on May 29, 2010.

Bhabika Joshi was featured as Personality of the Month for September 2009 on our website and she also writes weekly articles for TexasNepal Blog.

We, TexasNepal.com team, would like to congratulate her on her accomplishment and wish her good luck with her upcoming book.

Below is a video from the Fourth Regional NRN Conference in Houston, Texas showing Bhabika Joshi receiving the award and talking to us about the recognition and her upcoming book.

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TexasNepal.com is One Year Old today! (June 1, 2010)

June 1, 2010 marks the first anniversary of the establishment of TexasNepal.com and we would like to thank all our dear website visitors and our well wishers for their love and continuous support that has helped us to reach this far and also has been encouraging us everyday to work harder.

We initially launched the website as dfwNepal.com to serve the need of a communication portal for Nepalis living in Dallas – Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex. June 1, 2009 became the official launch date. Since then we have been publishing articles, photos, videos, news and more on our website on a regular basis. We have received several suggestions and comments over these months and we appreciate all our website visitors’ concern for us.

Renaming to TexasNepal.com
With suggestions from our visitors and well wishers we officially renamed the website to TexasNepal.com on May 1, 2010 with the aim of reaching out to more Nepalis across the state of Texas and to cover events and happenings related to Nepali communities throughout the state of Texas.

Personality of the Month
We started featuring a distinguished Nepali personality every month since August 2009 as an inspiration for our website visitors as well as to promote local talents. Below is list of people we have featured so far:

• Dr. Upendra Mahato (June 2010)
• Prawal Gurung (May 2010)
• Guru Deen Bandhu Pokhrel (April 2010)
• Anup Bhandari (February 2010)
• Prashant Tamang (January 2010)
• Kritima Lamichhane (December 2009)
• Phiroj Shyangden (November 2009)
• Kapil Mani Dixit (October 2009)
• Bhabika Joshi (September 2009)
• Prem Ahikari (August 2009)

Weekly Video Podcast
We started publishing weekly video podcast from the first week of April 2009. These video podcasts cover topics like What’ New on our website, video tutorials in Nepali, interesting facts, upcoming events and so on. Weekly video podcasts are available at texasnepal.com/blog/category/video-podcast and also at TexasNepal Videos.

Weekly Articles by Bhabika Joshi
Bhabika Joshi is a young aspiring Nepali writer from Keller, Texas who has already penned a novel at a very young age of fourteen. She was featured on our website as Personality of the Month for September 2009. She has been writing great weekly articles for us on our blog every Mondays. Click here to read her articles.

Featured Events

• Nepali New Year 2067 Celebration
• Nepali Sanskritik Sanjh
• Prashant Tamang & Raju Lama Concert
• Thanksgiving Celebration in Euless
• Deusi Program by Indreni Cultural Association
• Dashain Sanjh in Irving
• NST Election 2009
• Teej 2009
• View More Events

Photos
TexasNepal Photos - this page features all photos from various events we have covered recently.

Once again we would like to thank all our website visitors and our well wishers for their continuous support, encouragement, suggestions, comments and concerns that has helped us to run our website till date and we will be expecting the same in the days to come.

Thank You
TexasNepal.com Team
Anoj KC
Mukunda KC
Rajan Odari
Rita Phuyal

Nepali Jansamparka Samiti America, DFW Chapter Invitation for Membership and Upcoming Convention

Dear community members,

Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex

At this time we would like to inform that (Nepali Congress) Nepali Jansamparka Samiti America, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Chapter is distributing membership form to all Nepalese community members, who believe Nepali congress, nation, nationality, socialism and democracy. Please fill up the membership form and join the NPRCA. All the Nepalese can fill up this membership form by following the Nepali congress’s theory, rules and regulation.

May 15, 2010 is last day of Membership form acceptance.

Upcoming Event:
Nepali Janasamparka Samiti DFW Chapter convention will be held on Saturday May 22, 2010 in Irving, Texas.

Please contact the following persons for membership form:

Sita Koirala - 660 864 1511
Sundar Karmacharya – 972 207 2449
Sushil Adhikari - 214 674 4056
Bhagawan Mainali - 972 983 6929
Rajesh Aryal - 469 583 1468
Gyanendra Karki - 214 597 7120
Shankar Pandey - 214 907 2777
Gyaneshor Amatya - 214 872 0894
Amrit Sapkota - 214 404 6487
Badal Bhujel - 214 517 0854
Sagar Panthi - 214 909 2412
Rabin Lama - 972 900 2905
Prem Phagu - 972 697 5226
Puspa Lata Bhandari – 682 230 2397
Chatana Tiwari - 972 363 7391
Chet P. Paudel – 682 227 5544
Sajan Mulmi - 469 648 7752
Rajendra Basnet - 682 553 7232
Arth Raj Koirala - 713 443 8334
Hari Bol Bhandari - 561 346 5393
Khadga Upreti – 972 693 6589

Sincerely Yours
On behalf of the Chapter Convention Committee
NPRCA – Dallas/Fort Worth , Texas

Om Kumar Bhattarai
Member –Secretary
817 800 6122

dfwNepal is officially TexasNepal.com from May 1st, 2010

May 1, 2010 – We are officially renaming dfwNepal.com to TexasNepal.com from today. We decided to rename the website with suggestions from our visitors and well-wishers in order to cover more events and reach out to even more Nepalis across the state of Texas.

All the previous links to dfwNepal.com are still valid and visitors are redirected to the same page under TexasNepal when visiting the old links via dfwNepal.com domain.

Please write to us at info@TexasNepal.com if you receive any errors due to this transition.

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Thank you all for your love and support.
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Nepali New Year 2067 Celebration by NST rescheduled for Sunday, April 25, 2010

Nepali New Year 2067 Celebration, previously scheduled for April 18, 2010, was canceled due to inclement weather. The event is now rescheduled for Sunday, April 25, 2010 at the same place and same time.

The event will include fun activities like Tug of war, Volley Ball, Musical Chair, Quiz Contest, Poet Recital, Concert by Local Band, Song by Ram Pandey, Dances by Local talents, Mathematics Daud, Rumal Chor, Frisbee Game, Bounce House, Ghyampo Fod, and more. There will be lots of Nepali food as well.

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Details
When : Sunday, April 25, 2010
Time : 11AM to 8PM
Admission : Free
Where : 1951 Bear Creek Parkway (at Ash Ln.) Euless, Texas 76039

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Please Help Kundan Bhattarai

On March 18, 2010 Kundan Bhattarai, a student at North Lake College, passed out at a grocery store. He was rushed to Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas where he was diagnosed with Cardiac Arrest with multiple organ failures and some neurological damages to his brain due to lack to oxygen flow to his brain. He was kept in the ICU for eleven days. Doctors had lost hopes for him but he managed to fight his death and started recovering after the twelfth day.

He recently got discharged from the hospital. According to his cousin Bharat M. Bhattarai, who wrote to us via email, Kundan is feeling much better now. He is very weak though and needs assistance even to get off the bed. He might have to go for rehab for 3-4 months. Doctors fear that even though he is doing good there is high chances of re-occurrence of Cardiac Arrest.

He does not have a health insurance coverage and now has a huge bill to pay off from the hospital. Since he won’t be able to work for months, he and his family members are seeking for financial assistance from Nepalis living here in DFW Metroplex for his medical expenses.

Please follow the link below to contribute to Mr. Bhattarai’s recovery.

For up-to-date information regarding Kundan Bhattarai’s recovery please visit his cousin Bharat M. Bhattarai’s blog at bharatmaniblogs.blogspot.com.

Below is the email sent out by Bharat M. Bhattarai and was circulated via NST Google Group.

To Whom It May Concern

US Census 2010 – जनगणना २०१० फारम कसरी भर्ने

This video presented in Nepali shows you how to fill out and mail back your census form. Filling out form is very easy and takes only 10 minutes and doing so can help our community get what it needs for the next 10 years.

यहा प्रस्तुत गरिएको भिडियो मा २०१० जनगणना को फारम कसरी भर्ने देखाइएको छ |

For More information about 2010 US Census go to 2010 Census Details in Nepali.

बिस्तृत जानकारीका लागि येहा क्लिक्क गर्नुहोस् |

The video below from USA Today explains how the census counting is carried out.

“Holi” Festival to be celebrated on February 28

Indreni Cultural Association is organizing a cultural event to celebrate “Holi” – the festival of colors on Sunday, February 28, 2010 in Grapevine, Texas.

Here’s a short description of the festival and the event from the organizers.

We all know “Holi (also called Fagu Poornima)” is known as one of the greatest festivals in Nepal and has been celebrated since long ago. In addition, it is regarded as a festival of color and an occasion to share feelings and thoughts each other so that happiness, faith and a close relationship between community members is possible. So we would like to invite sincerely to all of our community members to join the event and make it success. We are really hopeful that the young ones who missed their Nepalese culture in their motherland would have a moment to learn about their native culture in a foreign land.

Details:
When: February 28, 2010 (Sunday) 9:00 AM to 8: 00 PM
Where: 2500 Dove Loop Dr. Grapevine, TX 76051 ( Click here for Map and driving direction)
Ticket: Free admission to all!

Activities for the event include Holi Dance, Kids games, Sports Volleyball, Soccer, and more. It is suggested that you were white t-shirt to play with the colors.

For More information, please contact:
1. Sarita Bhatta – 8175289591
2. Netra Pandey – 4692740692
3. Chatnath Bhattarai – 9402308067
4. Unique Mart – 972 257 0119
5. Krishna Bhandari – 6824722592

Flyer for the event:

Valentine’s Day Dance Party to raise fund for ANA 2010

There’s a Valentine’s day dance party at Temptation this Saturday, February 13th. It is organized by Everest Soccer Team as a fundraising event for ANA 2010.

Come, have fun and enjoy!

Details
When: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Where: Temptation Restaurant (Click here for map)
Ticket: $10 (Single) and $15 (Couples)
Time: 10PM to 2AM

(Thank you Sabin Kshattry for sending this.)

Flyer for the event: