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Diplomat Bindashwari Shah passed away. According to family sources, Shah died at home on Thursday morning. She was 92 years old. Shah's family said that the funeral will be held today.
Shah is the first Nepali woman ambassador. In the year 2044, Shah became Nepal's first female ambassador (to India) from the Foreign Service. Bindashwari is also the mother of banker Anilkeshari Shah.
In 1988, King Birendra appointed him as the Nepali ambassador to India. She also managed to hold the record of being the first Nepali woman to become an ambassador. She served as Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for some time before retiring as Ambassador to India.
Bindashwari Shah was born in 1933 in Kharsang, India. Bindashwari's father Padmasundar Malla was forced to leave the country because of the then Rana Prime Minister Chandrashamsher .
After completing his graduation in electrical engineering in Japan, Padmasundar returned to the University of Mississippi in the United States and completed his master's degree in the same subject in 1922 . Anilkeshari Shah narrated this incident in a conversation with Kantipur some time ago. "My grandfather was the first Nepali to go to America and get his master's degree." "The Rana government has thrown out his caste because he has read too much," said Anil Keshari.
Unable to bear the humiliation of Chandrashamsher, Padmasundar migrated to Kharsang in Darjeeling. Bindashwari studied at St. Helen's School there. After her graduation in 1951, Bindaswari also participated when she received news that the world's top 100 who wrote an essay entitled 'The World of Tomorrow' would have the opportunity to visit America. Three months later, the letter came - 'You have been selected, congratulations.'
In 1952, she reached America and visited many places. In 1956, Bindashwari became the first Nepalese woman to graduate from an American college, earning a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Columbia University's Barnard College. She received her Masters in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC in 1958. Then she was returned to Nepal. She worked as the chief librarian at the American library opened in Nayasadak.
Then she entered the foreign service after passing the public service exam. When Matrikaprasad Koirala was ambassador to America, Bindashwari was also working at the Nepali Embassy in Washington DC. After the independence of Bangladesh, King Birendra sent him to Dhaka to establish diplomatic relations. She remained in Bangladesh until the end of her tenure in 1976, despite the military coup and the assassination of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
