A Note from Our Founder

Namaste, and welcome home.

My name is Prajjawal Jung Pratap Singh. People in America call me PJ. I'm the Co - founder and first official President of the Nepali Students' Association at Northeastern, which is a fancy way of saying I'm the guy who got tired of explaining what momo is and decided we needed a whole club for it.

Here's the truth. Leaving Nepal doesn't mean leaving behind the sound of your mother's voice calling you for tea, the chaos of Dashain family gatherings, or that specific ache you feel when someone says "Kathmandu or Janakpur" in a movie and your whole chest tightens. You just carry it with you, quietly, across oceans and time zones, hoping you'll find people who carry the same thing.

That's why this club exists.

We built this club from scratch: the paperwork, the constitution, the late nights convincing Northeastern's administration that yes, momos are a legitimate cultural institution worth celebrating. It wasn't glamorous. It was a lot of Google Forms and even more WhatsApp messages. But somewhere between the bureaucracy and the group chats, something real took shape. A community. A home away from home. A place where you don't have to explain the punchline of a Nepali joke, because everyone's already laughing.

We are students, dreamers, engineers, artists, and everyone in between, bonded by mountains most of us haven't seen in years and a culture we refuse to let fade into the background of our new American lives.

Twenty years from now, long after we've all graduated and scattered across the world again, I hope this club is still standing. I hope some student who feels a little lost and a little homesick finds NSA and feels, for the first time since landing in Boston, like they can breathe.

That's the whole point. That's why we started this.

With love,

Prajjawal Jung Pratap Singh, MS ECE 2026

Co - Founder & President 2026

Nepali Students' Club of Northeastern University, Boston