Khagendra Thapa Magar has been chosen to fill the prestigious role of brand ambassador for the 2011 “Visit Nepal before it disintegrates” tourism year. A high ranking government official said ‘nobody incorporates Nepal’s greatness and historical importance in today’s world better and more circumspect than babuji Khagendra. He is the true maior domus of Nepal’.
Tourism figures recently released show a decided uptrend of 33%, always keeping in mind there being lies, bad lies, statistics and Nepali statistics. But who are we to judge in our 24/7 malicious slander mode.
The originally chosen slogan of ”Together in Tourism and Divided against the Country” seemed not have adequately caught the spirit of the occasion and was slightly adapted to a more mashable one. Rumor has it that the Nepali Tourism Broad, eh, Board will also publish an iPhone app in the not too distant future as soon as sufficient funds for the purchase of an iPhone have been raised. The country is so confident, almost to a brazen extent, that it conspicuously shuns advertising in the major travel magazines. “We know who we are, Nepal needs no promotion, the world wants us” were the words of Tourism Board spokesperson Rajendra Dhal Bhaat.
Khagendra Thapa Magar just returned from the olympic games in CA and was said to have attended the curling events on a daily basis. Khagendra Thapa Magar in his trade mark debonair way: “Curling to me has an almost intellectual dimension. I like swirling things and I love big, flat balls”. Well, there you have it folks, he is a man of the people, 960 millimeter tall and exuding the energy to make 2011 the year coming right after 2010.
Jai Nepal!
[...] bold target set by the NTB and meticulously executed under the bold and wise leadership of Khagendra Thapa Magar, Nepal’s shortest man, is widely hailed as yet another yard stone in the continuing progress [...]