Posted by: chanaa_tarkaari January 28, 2011
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I have already mentioned that we are too quick to generalize our understanding based on few observations. For those people who have a US green card (or PR of CANADA/AUS/EU) at one hand and strong family background in Nepal at the other hand, it is much easy to talk big about returning back. Karishma Manandhar, Saroj Khanal and Puja Chand did it recently. But Ramraja Poudel, despite being in the same boat, does not have the same story. So, I mentioned earlier, every case has a different story. People of different fields, e.g. science, managment, technology, education, health etc. may have different environment but the condition is similar.
There are plenty of success and failure stories about the returnees (US or elsewhere). If we collect data, I don't expect to see more success than failure side. Most so called successful people (who earned money and name) have somehow exhausted the corrupt system and loopholes. Those people who have tried to correct the system, be honest, and did not do "khurafati kaam", they are mostly "failed people" in the eyes of common citizen in Nepal.
The "lahure mentality" is deeply rooted in our society. Traditionally, our "Lahures" are expected to return back with fancy transistors, gold and wealth. Because of this mentality, your family and friends have high expectations, which is really hard to fulfill. Whether you "make job" or "take job", you have limitations. The system and infrastructure in Nepal is definitely not encouraging to "job makers" and "job takers". "Success stories" circulated in news media or networks like E4N, are purely made out of coincidental success. You can not draw out any systematic conclusion from that. You can not figure out any successful business model. Any of these "successful people" are not role model in our society for their work and contribution. Often these stories are written to provide false encouragement or to brag the success through a sponsered journalism. For me, these success stories are outliers, because I have seen many others failed who were in similar business.
There are plenty of success and failure stories about the returnees (US or elsewhere). If we collect data, I don't expect to see more success than failure side. Most so called successful people (who earned money and name) have somehow exhausted the corrupt system and loopholes. Those people who have tried to correct the system, be honest, and did not do "khurafati kaam", they are mostly "failed people" in the eyes of common citizen in Nepal.
The "lahure mentality" is deeply rooted in our society. Traditionally, our "Lahures" are expected to return back with fancy transistors, gold and wealth. Because of this mentality, your family and friends have high expectations, which is really hard to fulfill. Whether you "make job" or "take job", you have limitations. The system and infrastructure in Nepal is definitely not encouraging to "job makers" and "job takers". "Success stories" circulated in news media or networks like E4N, are purely made out of coincidental success. You can not draw out any systematic conclusion from that. You can not figure out any successful business model. Any of these "successful people" are not role model in our society for their work and contribution. Often these stories are written to provide false encouragement or to brag the success through a sponsered journalism. For me, these success stories are outliers, because I have seen many others failed who were in similar business.