Posted by: pire July 18, 2010
Akshay Sthapit: Inspirational
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I met Akshay in Boston, and he was a shy kind of man when I met him. He told me he would go back and teach at a college in Kathmandu. Hope he is doing that too:)

Yes. If all of us go back, and rather than looking to be minister in Kathmandu, go to our respective villages, find some ways to generate jobs, whether by opening hotels, constructing hydropower firms or simply by selling products to make the life of our people better, our country would be a lot better. I read about some people from Manang who went back to Manang and generated jobs there in "Nepal" magazine in ekantipur and god bless these people and may their business flourish. But as long as people just run away even if they came here in Fulbright, and as long as people tell their villagers fake story about USA, we will be in trouble. In particular, I absolutely dislike those who send photograph of car (but not of restaurant where they were forced to work for low salary) back home. Come to think of it, I still dislike those seniors who sent me photos of them standing in front of Hollywood mansion and giving me impression as if they owned it. 

The key thing is it is important for us to be happy at whatever responsibility we get in Nepal. Not all of us have to be minister, prime minister or yojana ayogko head. People respect figures such as Mahabir Pun, and he spent time helping to run a highschool in Myagdi, of all places. He also transcends race, and can unite everybody. Nepali people have enormous respect for people like Haribansha Acharya, Madan Krishna Shrestha, dead Pundit Pokhrel, Uttam Sanjel, Sanduk Ruit etc...and hope our children draw inspiration from them rather than those asylym seekers, fake marriage for greencard walas, fulbright elopers, government training arrivals who chose not to go away..

Good job, Akshay.
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