My sense is that Riten -- whoever s/he is -- anonymously appears to be making stuff up, and passing them off as some sort of truth. S/he calls for objective measures, yet easily succumbs to the same highly subjective judgements that s/he accuses others of falling into. If not, then, let Riten -- the arbiter of who's a success and who's not -- name names so that interested third-parties can judge for themselves the validity of Riten's judgments. I say that because I personally know many Harvard grads who live and work in Nepal (or, for that matter, in various parts of South Asia, or, at least the ones active in local Harvard clubs). Based on my limited but interested experiences, I have yet to come across Harvard grads who returned to their countries -- whether Nepal, Bangladesh, India or Pakistan - to live merely as "so so" or after having failed to secure jobs in the US. Often, many of these people are driven and hardworking enough to rise up to be in influential positions in their home countries: in academia, business, civil society, journalism, diplomacy, government service, and so on. You go to India, for instance, and meet some of these people, and the only reaction is: "Wow!" On a larger note, people return -- from Harvard or from Quincy College -- to their countries for a variety of reasons: personal, family, end of a fellowship/scholarship stay, and so on. It's typically old-fashioned to equate 'return to Nepal' as some sort of a failure. As they say, on the banks of the Charles River, the further you go away from Cambridge with your degree, the impact gets bigger! :-) Driven, ambitious and hardworking Nepalis -- regardless of where they go to school anywhere on the planet -- make the best of what they have wherever they choose to live and work. oohi ashu