@beni and @kahobadi_neta

सहि लाग्यो मलाइ तपाइँहरुको कमेंट.

Something about the way RL went all up on reporting things on TV as if he was the paragon of anticorruption was surreal. But again, shit happens in people's lives. He should really have waited until his citizenship papers were in. I think he got ahead of himself in this case, like in some of his media reports :)

I agree a country can have myriads of situations based on which they make laws, as well as foreign and domestic policies. But it is about time Nepal start embracing the larger Nepali populace, especially people of ethnic Nepali origin as their well wishers rather than maintaining an attitude of a mute neutral observer toward them. All of the Nepali folks that lived abroad and continue to live there, are just economic migrants. In a generation from now, all those who live abroad will fall in this category and your and my children will have no reason to maintain any attachment to Nepal. Just the idea we reinforce in them, that we are of Nepali origin will only be the common connecting thread. That is a sad situation. Nepal doesn't have to provide anything to us physically, but just have a policy in place to at least speak for them in times of need. We are not begging to provide us land or property or accord any special favor. Just a distant embrace if such a time comes due to unforeseen situations. And trust me, that will benefit Nepal immensely. But this is just my personal musing and please don't interpret this as some self-serving moaning. I have my marbles and scruples in place and I could care less about these things, but it is not right to look away and not say anything on these matters.

This happened to the Burmese Nepalese, the Bhutanese Nepalese, those in Darjeeling and Dehradhun, and in other parts of India (those in Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya etc.). Now this will rinse and repeat to our children and grandchildren in the US, UK, Australia etc. But when the hour of need comes (such as the panic on depleting dollar reserves recently) Nepal will suddenly think we could be relied upon, and in a way rightly so. It should be a mutual relationship between a country and its ethnic diaspora, both at home and abroad.

But the politburo in Nepal seems to be too busy just managing the daily affairs of the country, and is not setting up long term plans for a decade or two away!