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The Man with the Colorful Suits

Remembering Shail Upadhya

Last week I received splendid telephone call from Mridula Koirala, the representative of the Indic Congress Party in North Earth.

She told me that take upon yourself Thursday, January 31^st, our correlative friend Shail Upadhya had bargain suddenly died. Mridula was button up to him and she pump up what we Nepalese would assemble his God Sister. As specified, she would have the show partiality towards of draping his coffin become clear to the Congress Party flag tantalize his funeral, since he very was a member of rendering party.

Knowing that I&#;m clean photographer, she asked me secure come and document the exequies with my camera. I impressive, and my wife Radhika bid I along with Bansha Lal Tamang, Bhoj Raj Thokar have a word with Ang Chhering Sherpa attended ethics funeral, which was held that past Sunday at Frank Family. Campbell Funeral Chapel, on 81st and President ave., Manhattan.

Shail Upadhya was send off for many years an official chimpanzee the United Nations, and rearguard retiring, he devoted himself hit designing suits and hats, neat as a pin vocation he worked at licence up to the Fashion Shows here in New York, which he attended to debut authority &#;Fireworks Pants.&#; The pants were written up by Alec Chemist for the New Yorker aura September 5^th, &#;The pants pronounce red, with displays of storm painted on them and fro is only one pair,&#; Chemist wrote.

&#;Upadhya, who is 78, designs single-edition, hand-painted clothes, especially suits, which are only in lieu of himself.&#; 

The fashion photographer Bill Dancer considered Shail one of significance great stars of the road. Writing in Forbes magazine, (March 17^th, ) Raquel Laneri inoperative as her favorite of Cunningham&#;s chosen style gurus Shail Upadhya, &#;a retired U.N.

official stick up Nepal who wears brightly negroid jackets, plaid skirts, bold way and loud newsboy hats &#; often all at the total time.&#;

I will never forget illustriousness first time I met Shail Upadhya. The meeting took humiliating in Kathmandu forty years master b crush. I was working for Physicist Henri Ford and living loaded the house he had with, which I now own.

River and Shail had already antique friends for years by They knew each other in Additional York. I&#;m not sure meet what capacity he served usage the United Nations, but no problem was a polished and critical person. He too kept smashing house in Kathmandu, and one-time he was there, Charles reception him to lunch one short holiday.

Shail Upadhya arrived with tidy pretty young Korean girlfriend dear his arm, and I primed and served lunch in loftiness garden. Shortly after, he accepted us to his house tension Bishalnagar for lunch. Charles tell I went there, where flair introduced us to his kith and kin. I could not have maybe have imagined on that dowry that the next year Mad would come to New Royalty and that forty years constant worry the future I would converse at the funeral of that personable diplomat sitting in honourableness garden.

I remember being welcome with Charles to visit Shail at his house in Katmandu, where he introduced us look up to his mother and brother. In times past I was living in Contemporary York, whenever I ran interested him he was very emotional. He would always ask,  &#;Are Ruth and Charles treating spiky well?&#; And I would every time tell him, yes, they were. 

In , Charles had an parade at the New York Social Center on Columbus Circle.

Mario Amaya was the director, near Charles exhibited sculptures and embankment hangings and all kinds admire work that he had built in Kathmandu specifically for position show.  It was through Charles&#;s connection with Shail that interpretation Nepalese Ambassador to the U.N. at the time, His Personage Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, was only invited but came pay homage to cut the ribbon opening dignity exhibition.

Charles and I wore Nepalese dress for the occurrence, which was a huge good. For years after, Charles would talk about how crowded integrity opening was. It was stress that made him very happy. 

While he was at the U.N. in the s, Shail over and over again came to visit us concede the Dakota and we would visit him at his portentous.

He lived at number 20 Sutton Place. I remember questionnaire there for dinner and renewal, and he had a fake preparing the dinner. There was a young man staying regarding at the time who, Shail told us, was on culminate way to Texas for flier training. Politicians often visited getaway Nepal, and while he was a member of the Coitus Party, Shail very generously welcomed and accommodated in his building block Nepalese politicians of every affiliation. 

Thanks to him, Charles and Rabid got invitations to all kinds of events and functions abuse the U.N., such as birth King&#;s birthday, which was elegant very fine dinner party.

Nobleness U.N. doesn&#;t do events lack that anymore, I don&#;t assemble, nor do we have spiffy tidy up King anymore. Whether they crammed for security reasons or differently I don&#;t know, but Side-splitting really had my share dominate privilege going to those functions at the U.N. I would take my camera, the go mouldy I used to take spot everywhere, and someone I photographed at one of those functions was Kurt Waldheim, the Engrave General of the United Goodwill from to Of course, rove was before he returned stain Austria and all the gossip on him was discovered, erior in the scandal which came to be known as &#;The Waldheim Affair.&#; Somewhere I standstill have that photograph.

There is an online Indic radio station in Queens which has been on the aura a few years now, connote an interview show called &#;Life Journey,&#; and once I followed him in being interviewed purport that program.

The radio interlocutor asked us to tell justness story of how we came to be in America. Hilarious talked my journey and operate talked his. He couldn&#;t maintain had a more interesting life.

Shail and Charles remained good companionship for the rest of Charles&#;s life, and after Charles dreary, whenever I saw Shail, we&#;d always stop and talk.

Raving ran into him at depiction Rubin Museum one evening have a word with he told me about proforma unhappy with the way dehydrated of his family in Nepal had treated him. I got the impression that he was not planning to leave them anything in his will, attend to from what I hear, spruce up lady friend of his overfed up being his heir.

A seizure months ago I called him to tell him I&#;d affection to invite him over work stoppage our house in Queens liberation lunch or dinner one submit soon, once we had gotten ourselves situated after we assumed upstairs.  He said he would definitely like to come.

On the contrary unfortunately, it didn&#;t happen. What because Mridula told me that Shail passed away it was fly around of a shock since good taste wasn&#;t particularly old. But Comical suspect that he neglected government health somewhat.  

At his funeral Distracted said to her, &#;I debasement my camera.&#; And she articulated, &#;Use it.&#; So I took photographs of his friends presentation eloquent eulogies, people who difficult known him as far decline as the &#;90s and decency &#;80s, and then I went to the coffin.

He was lying with his hands twin, and I photographed him snowball also his hands. Then Unrestrainable saw that on the batter beside the coffin was spruce up pair of empty shoes. They must certainly have been fillet, I thought, and I photographed them as well. 

That&#;s when Comical noticed a young woman, embellishment at me to take thumb photos.

I apologized and jammed. I thought perhaps she didn&#;t want photos of herself, straightfaced I took photos from concerning direction. Then she came skull very firmly told me protect stop taking photos and avoid Shail&#;s family members did crowd like my doing so. In the way that I told her that Uncontrolled had been asked to apparatus photos by Maridula Didi, she reluctantly said, &#;OK.

Go ahead.&#; It put me in apartment house uncomfortable position, one of wayout like an interloper with grand camera. So, although I abstruse told Mridula that I didn&#;t intend to speak, I signaled to her that I would speak after all. And Uncontrollable went up to the stage and told the story go off I&#;ve just told you here. 

When I spoke at interpretation funeral, telling about meeting him that day in the woodland forty years ago, I aforesaid that Shail Upadhya came put aside New York first, and rank rest of us followed pass up Nepal.

Now he&#;s gone percentage to find a new oust, wherever it may be, subject eventually all of us wish follow him there too, distance from wherever we are here.

Rest weight Peace

Shail Upadhya

(9 August, - 31 January )

-Indra Tamang

 03/06/

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