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Dr Shashi PBB Malla

Dr Shashi PBB Malla

Contributing Editor, The People’s Review [weekly]

Parents:

  • Father: Kumar Naresh Bahadur Bom Malla. A founding member of the Nepali Congress Party; revolutionary commander in 1950-51. Managing Director of a Business conglomerate in Calcutta.
  • Mother: Kumodini Rajya Laxmi Rana, from the “Jung” branch of the Rana clan.
    Grandparents
  • Grandfather: Chandra Bom Bahadur Malla Raja of Parbat & Shekham, West Nepal
  • Grandmother: Nara Rajeshwari Shah, daughter of the “Mukhiya Chautariya”
  • Wife: Neeta Rajeshwari Shah
  • Son: Ralf Narendra Bom Malla
  • Grandson: Louis Arjun Bom Malla
  • Daughter: Sadhavi Rajeshwari Malla

Education:

  • School Education: Goethals Memorial School, Kurseong, Darjeeling. O-Level, Cambridge University, 1958
  • College/University
    • St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta: Intermediate Science, 1961
    • Presidency College, Calcutta: B.A. (Hons), Economics & Political Science, 1963
    • Jadavpur University, Calcutta: M.A., International Relations, 1965 [including International Law and American Studies]
    • Studied German at the Max Mueller Bhavan, Calcutta & School of International Languages, Kathmandu: Diploma
    • Munich University, Germany: Dr. phil. Major: International Politics. Minors: Sociology, Modern History, Indology, Sinology
    • Thesis: “The Foreign Policy of the Kingdom of Nepal & its Internal Determinants” [in German: magna cum laude], 1973
    • Post-Doctoral Research on: “The Himalayan Kingdoms of Nepal, Bhutan &
      Sikkim in the International Constellation” [in German with support from the German Research Council]

Journalism:

  • The Rising Nepal: Assistant Editor
  • The Independent: Columnist
  • The People’s Review: Associate Editor [currently] Academic
  • Senior Lecturer & Research Associate: Munich University for International Politics & South Asian Studies
  • Senior Lecturer: Tribhuwan University, Kathmandu for Conflict, Peace & Development Studies (M.A. level)
  • Research Fellow, Sangam Institute for Policy Analysis & Strategic Studies,
    Gyaneswar, Kathmandu
  • Participated in and lead seminars of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Germany
  • Member of the Society for International Development (SID), Rome/Washington
    Participated as a member of the German delegation in international conferences in Ottowa, Amsterdam, Paris, Oxford, et.al.
  • Academic articles in various journals. Text book: Politics among States,
    2nd. Edition, 1977 (in German, together with Y.C. Chen and K.M. Schellhorn )
     Academic article on “Nationalism” in anthology on International Politics edited by
    Prof. Dr. Gottfried-Karl Kindermann of Munich University
  • Participated in selection process for and granted US Fulbright Scholarship, 1967.
    Denied study leave by Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Civil Service:

  • Section Officer, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Member of entourage during HM King Mahendra’s state visit to the Netherlands and official visit to Germany [awarded decoration: Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau], 1968
  • Member of the ministerial entourage during the state visit to Nepal of H.E. Dr. Heinrich Luebke, President of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967 Tourism
  • Managing Director: Shangrila Reisen International, Munich
  • Group Leader for Culture, Trekking & Mountaineering for DAV Summit Club, Munich in Nepal and India (Ladakh & Sikkim). Later: Country Representative for Nepal.

Social Work in school and college education & health care:

  • Seti Devi, Pharping, KTM, 1992-
  • Pang and Kusma, Parbat, West-Nepal, 1992-
  • Tripura Sundari Gaun Palika, Sindhupalchowk, 2015.
  • (Updated on 13 July, 2019)