New Year’s in Nepal: Home of the World’s Smallest Man

January 5th, 2010 | By Conor | 4 Comments »

I first learned about the World’s Smallest Man from the kids in our children’s home.

They were very proud of him. They knew him by name. I was not surprised. I like small countries like Nepal because they have a few things for which they demand recognition. In Nepal, the claim to fame du jour is the world’s smallest man. The fact that they have the world’s tallest mountain – that every school child around the planet has heard of Mount Everest – is old news. Similarly, the birthplace of the Buddha is in Nepal. He was born in Nepal. The Buddha! He’s Nepalese! You think the Hoboken-ites take pride in Frank Sinatra? They got the freakin’ Buddha!

But they don’t talk about that. Again, old news.
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