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SATISH PRABASI

Old Friends

Satish Prabasi with Kul Chandra Gautam, former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations in New York City in October 2018.

Moment with Jim Grant

Satish Prabasi with Jim Grant, the then Executive Director of UNICEF, at the Beijing University.

Author meets Author

Satish Prabasi with the internationally acclaimed author Pico Iyer at the New York Public Library in New York City in April 2019.

UNICEF Days in India

Satish Prabasi with colleagues from UNICEF and partner organizations in India.

An evening with friends of China.

Ravi Alley, the revolutionary from New Zealand, Jim Grant, Satish Prabasi, Professor Karl Taylor of John Hopkins University, and senior revolutionaries who participated in the long march with Mao.

The Great Hall of the People

Senior professionals of Soong Ching Ling Foundation honoring Satish Prabasi, UNICEF Representative to China in The Great Hall of the People.

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ABOUT ME & MY MEMOIR

Satish Prabasi
I was born in Saptari, Nepal and grew up in Benares, India. My studies took me to Nottingham in the United Kingdom and The Hague in the Netherlands. My varied working life has included time as an activist academic, a United Nations staff member, and an unsuccessful entrepreneur. My work and personal life have taken me across Asia, Africa, Australia, and Europe. I now live in New York with my wife, where I enjoy the company of my two grandchildren, and delight in browsing in the city’s many libraries.

Synopsis of my memoir
Fragments of Memory: A Nepali National's reminiscences
In 1949, I left my remote village in the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal, traveling by ox-cart, to pursue an education in newly-independent India. This book is the unlikely story of my life from my birth in Nepal, to my days as an activist academic in the Netherlands, and later as a global traveler and official of the United Nations. Few have experienced the equivalent of two centuries of transformation in one lifetime: from a feudal society to the digital age. Ultimately, my life and journey have been guided by a love for learning and a quest for a purposeful life.