Best of luck boys. In recent few months,  many of my friends who studies in US left and went back to Nepal. Most of them were saying they will go and assess the situation there before making a permanent decision. If things does not seem to be working, they all have Plan B..... i.e. either come back to US or go to other country... preferably UK or Australia. Most of them have gone back despite their family strongly rejecting the idea. I am not sure if I will go back. I wish I would but I cannot see myself going back. There are situations. I have my old dad, mom and granny at home all on their own. They need us, but the situation in the country does not helps my cause. I love my country as much as any other person does, but I live in reality. Jaya Nepal

gyanguru · Jan 18, 2009 5:03 AM

If you are really decided to return Nepal permanently, you might just wanna blind yourself before leaving... you know there's 16 hrs of load-shedding.. you might be better off without eyes.. May be you blind one eye... keep the other one for the daytime when there;s natural  light.. then use the blind eye for night time when there's no electricity and light.. !! Humor

Ved555 · Jan 18, 2009 11:08 AM

Bro, it's good thing that you posted with proud that u r going back to Nepal. Can you tell me what is your financial situation in Nepal and over here?? If you are from a middle class family with family income of Rs. 15,000 (Rs fifteen thousand) a month in Nepal and you have guts to go back, then I salute you for ur proudness. If you are financially strong nepal, returning Nepal is not a proud bro.  Many students coming over here for study with plan to work later on are from middle class or low class, financially with low family income. They can't think of graduating over here and returning back without making some money. Of course I will also return back, but not now, not because of condition of Nepal, but once I am financially stable, so may take some more years.

ark · Jan 18, 2009 11:21 AM

Going back to meet your family is not reason enough? I miss my mom dad and small brother like anything. I would swim home if I had to / could. I think its time to realize where we come from and where we call 'home'. One of my friends was telling me, "You know Nepalis are probably the best to adapt to any kind of situation" He went on to explain that we dont really feel any cultural threat when in foreign lands. We are 'cool' with whatever the culture surrounding us is. Thousands of us living abroad, sacrificing, all that we have known and loved, for hopes of a more promising future. We see amazing things, things that we probably would never have seen in our lifetime had we stayed at home. But the tour is over. Its time to think about the green hills of Nagarkot. The crystal waters of Rara. The majasty of the Himalayas. We are the children of the mountains, and that we must not forget. Yes, there is 16 hours load shedding (maybe 20). Yes there is utter poverty and maara-kaat and gunda-gardi and corruption. That is but a wound, and if there is no one to heal that wound, it could turn fatal. I have a year left for Undergrad. Then another 2 years for Masters. Once that's done I will have a sense of personal achievement and I will pat myself on the back and say "Well done!". And all the knowledge and information that I would have amassed till then, in my 8 long years of tenure here in the United States, and all the good appreciative things that I have learnt from the people here, and all the solid framework upon which this system rests, ever so firmly, all THAT I will take home and plant the seeds right in my backyard. So that one day in the future, even if I'm still not around, from those seeds a protective canopy nurses the gashing wounds that currently plague our lands. Concluding, hate and negativism is easy to breed, and each individual mind makes a difference in helping spread it. Encouragement is like achaar, just a little bit will make your meal taste so much better! Set forth and start the repairs, I will join you shortly.

dekchidriver · Jan 18, 2009 11:34 AM

If you find an apartment, please reserve a room for me too :) In all seriousness, I commend your intention going back to Nepal. Lot many people have concerns regarding economy and state of affairs of Nepal. I am pretty sure that you have analyzed those obvious concerns. Angst and frustrations will be the second thing that will markedly enshroud you. First being the joy, excitement and vigor to add a block to nation-building. The quality of life wouldn't be same. However, I believe your quality within would be intact, although compromises may ask for bargain. Propagate the positive things you learned. DO SOMETHING-ATLEAST TRY.Having said that, I remember someone saying  'brain-drain is better than brain-in-drain'. Fight against all odds. Good luck!

bhakunde bhut · Jan 18, 2009 12:24 PM

Yes, brain-drain is much better than brain-in-drain~!!

dekchidriver · Jan 22, 2009 3:59 PM

blind your one eye.. in Nepal there's 16 hours load -shedding.. so you don't need one eye for the night time.. and for the daytime, you can use the other eye.. You don't need both eyes, if you are going back to Nepal.

Ved555 · Jan 22, 2009 7:10 PM

Almost every house have alternative power sources, mostly battery inverters and it works. As as NEA the load shedding will get better and in about two months there will be no load shedding at all. My point is we can talk about the problems of Nepal likewise we can talk about the problems in US as well. There are choices we make and prices we have to pay when we decide to live in one of the richest countries and vice versa. Let me copy a song from Disney which hits home    Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place   Where the caravan camels roam   Where they cut of your ear   If they don't like your face  It's barbaric, but hey, it's home!

SHIV · Jan 22, 2009 8:04 PM

Lasko, u must be kidding. Are u smashing a joke to urself?  i know they r good just to talk those morality but the fact is different. u definetely get irritated  and i can assured that u will come back pretty soon. u can do nothing there better u change ur mind right know. neither it is good for business nor for any creativity. Do u wanna waste ur mind and ur money that u spend in ur education? this is the country made for CHORS, THUGS, THIEFS, HULLIA and A CITIZEN WITH  DISABILTY ACT and i believe u r not one of them .  YCL le hathkhutta bhachideye pachi luruka lagera America pharkana lai... u wanna go back to get these bullshit. if u r graduated why don't u try to find some good jobs and settle ur life like other mothafockers. obviously,  I know u don't  like to join a JULUS neither like to break the forehead of vehicles and policemen's forehead instead of attaining and throwing parties in the club like PURGATORY, DMX, 2009, KARMA and the favourite CLUB SHEK. U can't get the big buddies girls and i know u ll get sick watching the ugly face of ur wife and the stupid neighbors who always talk abt u. COM’N chief, u sound like an educated and sincere. So don’t try to be stupid. If u really miss ur family, take sometimes and get urself in a vacation. Visit them for a short time and come back. I m giving u this suggestion ‘cause I really don’t want any creative mind to be disturbed, destroyed and divided. I know u can’t be a president but u can be something valueable.

rookie1 · Jan 23, 2009 2:13 AM

Lasako, Hope you have made a decision, what ever your heart desires. Don't let other people influence your decision. People make life changing decisions everyday and I hope you will make the decision and follow your heart. I am in Nepal now after living in US for a very very long time, I do not want to return and the most important point is that I am happy here. Much happier than I had ever been in the mighty US of A. Good luck in what ever you decide.

shiv · Jan 27, 2009 10:22 PM

Hats off to you Lasko. Don't listen to the fainthearts in sajha, do not change your best decision in life. America was never yours (ours), Nepal is always yours (ours). Anything you do being in Nepal, be it just surviving there is better than living a routine life in America, no matter what you do and how much you earn here. These selfish lots who brag about Nepal's durgati care for nothing more than their personal comforts. Somebody is risking his future and going back to his country morons! Let him go and do something in his own land. If you could give a smallest portion of your achievement for the community, great. If not, you are one more addition to the educated Nepalis struggling in Nepal and that is already great. Trust me, I will follow your path and come to Nepal after I am done with my studies, ie in a year and a half. My best wishes are with you.

rohitgrg · Jan 28, 2009 5:20 AM