Lamak_98, I understand what you are saying. But let's look at it this way. Business regulations in Nepal are so khattam and jhoor that anyone -- NOT only a marwari -- can easily take advantage of them. Just look at the real estate or the "manpower" industry in Nepal -- the two industries that are pretty much run by, well, all sorts of characters including hard-core gangsters! One of the major challenges of new Nepal is to create and implement appropriate regulations in such a way that they apply equally well to ALL. When a newar or a bahun businessman "loots the economy", we don't see the act as looting, because, well, they are Nepalis -- people like us. After all, just go through the published list of high-profile bank defaulters, and you will know what I mean. But when a Marwari (swarthy, "Indian-looking", paan-chewing and use all the stereotypes you can fling!) does the same, then, we think therefore ALL Marwaris are like that -- chor and fataha and badmas, people who should be hanged. This sort of thinking is what I object to. Yes, there are chor and fataha Marwaris (and no one's denying that!) just as there are, well, chor and fataha bahuns and chettris and what not. Given this reality, our collective challenge is to develop and devise appropriate legal instruments to punish these crooks of whatever ethnicity .. .. one way or the other. But you can't look at one or two khattam Marwaris and then START reaching conclusions about the rest of the Marwari community as being this or that. If you do that to Marwaris, what'll be next? Will you take your logic further to declare that all Tamangs are criminals. Why? because their numbers a ppear to be large in Nepali jails. Therefore, the tamangs must be the criminal class of Nepal! And when you engage in such thinking, where does this sort of faulty generalisation lead to? Better to say: Yes, some Marwaris are chor and fataha. They should be thrown in jail after a due process of law. But some Marwaris' badmasi does NOT make every other law-abiding Marwari's kaam khattam and jhoor and illegal. And yes, business regulations in Nepal require all sorts of safeguards and all that . . . stuff for which, alas, noen of our MPs are prepared for. But that's another non-Marwari story. Meantime, so long as Nepal-based Marwaris hold Nepali citizenship cards, they are FULLY entitled -- as Nepali citizens -- a say in how to configure the New Nepal. Tetti ho kura. oohi ashu