Shah received the chance to study at Harvard through a Nieman fellowship, awarded because of his successful career in Nepalese journalism.
Shah, like Dev, used his time at Harvard to reflect on how best to serve his country.
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“We had many conversations about Asia,” says Elizabeth Young, a friend who was writing a dissertation on economic development in Bali. “He was keenly concerned with how to be democratic, how to be modern, without being Western.”
“He personally straddled those [two] worlds very nicely,” Young adds.
—The Associated Press contributed to the reporting of this story.
—Staff writer Eugenia B. Schraa can be reached at schraa@fas.harvard.edu.