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The Man with the Colorful Suits

Remembering Shail Upadhya

Last week I received a telephone call from Mridula Koirala, the representative of the Nepali Congress Party in North America.

She told me that on Thursday, January 31^st, our mutual friend Shail Upadhya had very suddenly died.

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Mridula was close to him and she is what we Nepalese would call his God Sister. As such, she would have the honor of draping his coffin with the Congress Party flag at his funeral, since he too was a member of the party. Knowing that I’m a photographer, she asked me to come and document the funeral with my camera.

I agreed, and my wife Radhika and I along with Bansha Lal Tamang, Bhoj Raj Thokar and Ang Chhering Sherpa attended the funeral, which was held this past Sunday at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, on 81st and Madison ave., Manhattan.

Shail Upadhya was for many years an official at the United Nations, and after r