File 04: Om Dhungel interview and photograph by Louise Whelan, 2 August 2013

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2 August 2013

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories, Graphic Materials, Photographs

9605071

2 audio files (2 hrs, 15 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
1 photograph - digital, TIFF file, colour

Om Dhungel (b. 1961) is from a small village in southern Bhutan, where his parents ran a grocery business. He attended a local primary school and then boarding school, receiving a scholarship to study engineering at a university in Bangladesh. He was employed as a government telecommunications engineer. After his father was arrested and tortured for his protests against government policy, the family fled the country through India and on to a refugee camp in Nepal, where Om carried out humanitarian work. He migrated to Australia on a student visa and studied at university, and later obtained a protection visa. He worked for many years as an engineer for Telstra and is on the board of SydWest Multicultural Services.

References:
Library correspondence file

ITEM 1
Om Dhungel interview by Louise Whelan, 2 August 2013

ITEM 2
Photograph of Om Dhungel, 2 August 2013 / by Louise Whelan

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