A Nepali (Lujendra) has found water on Mars. We Nepali don’t manage properly to have enough safe drinking water despite having the water resources that sustains 1.3 billion people.

A Nepali (Upendra) is a billionaire in Russia. Nepal asks for foreign food aid every year to feed hungry Nepali in western Nepal.

A Nepali (Anuradha) becomes a CNN Hero for outstanding service for humanity. 7000 Nepali girls are sold by Nepali citizens to Indian Brothels yearly.

A Nepali doctor (Sanduk) cures blindness from thousands of people around the world. Every year, Nepali citizens turn a blind eye to polluted rivers, polluted leadership, polluted culture of “yestai ho”.

Siddhartha Gautam inspired billions to love each other. Yet now, Nepali led by other Nepali, kill thousands of their own and teach others to hate each other based on ethnic groups, religion, caste and “hate thy neighbor”

A Nepali is known for his or her honesty, integrity, loyalty and bravery around the world. These days, Nepal as a nation is better known for ranking highest on corruption, for lack of transparency, little or no accountability from its leaders, nepotism among its citizens, and as an untrustworthy place to invest in.

Nepali bio-tech scientists are decoding our genes to build medicines that will save millions in the future. Yet 10,500 Nepali children die of diarrhea, preventable sanitation related diseases every year.

Nepali friends are at their best, innovating at places like Google, Apple, some even owning patents with Exxon. Yet only 6% Nepali students pass high school every year in Nepal.

Nepali are building one of the tallest building in the world in Arab. Meanwhile Nepal seems to have built nothing grander than the “Dharahara” built-in 1800s.

Nepali engineers and workers are building the next generational World cup stadiums in Qatar for 2022. Yet,Nepal regularly begs for money to renovate its old temples from foreigners.

In the end, no matter how excellent we are individually, we Nepali have to all carry the same hariyo passports (and face the same possible humiliation everywhere around the world).

So unless we unite and work as a team, we are a collective failure. :(

So shall we unite now to become a collectively success! ?

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Nepal is beautiful. It doesn’t need to change. We do.

Bagmati, near Sundarijal is refreshingly pure. As we touch it, we start turning it toxic. We need to change our habits.

Krishna Mandir in Patan is heart stopping! The houses we have built around it, since, aren’t. We need to re-think what “progress” means.

Kathmandu is fresh. Just smell the air as you walk down on its streets at dawn. As the day progresses we turn it into a smog hole. We do need to reconsider our life-styles.

The apples of Mustang are delicious! How many of us have tasted them? Yet we import apples from the US daily. We need to reconsider our priorities.

Nepal is peaceful. We sure are provoking it to become increasingly violent. We do Nepal bandhs to install fear in its air. We spread negative news day after day to poison it. We fill it in with “yestai ho” mentality to depress it. We really need to chill !

Nepal remains united. We are hellbent on fragmenting it. We are provoking each other in nastier ways, in the name of our ethnic groups, religion and areas and philosophies. We burden her by demanding our rights from her, without being responsible for protecting her. What would be our identity without Nepal?

Nepal is youthful! 82% of Nepali are under 40. We are sweating in and out of Nepal making ourselves known for our passion, dedication, hard work,loyalty and bravery. How about our rulers?

Nepal is rich. It provides for nearly 30 million of us. Yet we choose rulers who do everything to rob it and strip it down. We need to change the way we make our choices.

Nepal is strong. It can handle every problem we hurl on it with grace and humility. We need to ask, do we deserve her?

Nepal is beautiful. It doesn’t need to change. We do.

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Twenty years ago, our mentors – our teachers, parents, uncles and aunts, grandparents, and even prominent radio and TV personalities – started giving us career guidance from an early age.

They told us, explicitly or implicitly, what they expected from each of us. They had analyzed, to the best of their ability, what was going wrong in Nepal at that time, and tried to make us look into solutions to the problems they were facing then. Fair enough.

That is why almost all of them told us to become professionals – engineers, teachers, bankers, managers, accountants etc – or medical doctors or scientists.

If you are a middle-aged Nepali, you might have heard something similar. Every Dashain, while offering tika, our elders blessed us thus: “Bujhyau, you better become a doctor or engineer (professional) hai, otherwise a scientist bhaye pani hunchha!”

They would frown upon some of our own exciting ideas of making a career in sports, poetry, journalism, or even acting. Equally no-no was a career in politics or in the government (public service). Even the army or police was out of the question for the “brightest” amongst us.

They would say, “After all the education you have got, you are going to be just THAT?!!”

For them, the arts meant usually sociology or economics. Commerce usually meant management, finance, or accounting. And for them, these were a back-up plan for those of us who were not deemed well enough be a doctor or an engineer.

Our mentors also never saw a career in the social sector as a viable alternative for us.

Lately, I was curious to see whether their advice was effective in shaping my generation’s choices.

My question was, did they shape us into what we are today? So I decided to test this by checking how many of my high school classmates’ careers matched with the general trend of career advice given by our informal mentors at that time.

If you analyze the chart, essentially we have become what we were shaped  to be by our mentors two decades ago.

Half of us are working as “professionals” – the top recommendations our mentors made decades ago.

Nearly one out of five is in the medical field which was the other popular career advice our mentors gave. About 15% of us are working as bankers, accountants and managers, which was the third most popular career guidance given back in those days.

Only 8% of us are engaged in trading and in business. Out of this, probably a handful still had become genuine entrepreneurs – the breed that creates jobs and opportunities for others.

Less than 7% are in the social sector and multilateral agencies to help solve our social problems. Out of this, an extremely few are actually doing social activism.
There are virtually none – less than 1% – of us in the public sector (the orange) which included government career.

And, none of us actually joined politics.

Now wouldn’t you agree that this is where we see a lot of problems in the Nepali society right now? These three sectors – the public, social and entrepreneurial sectors – are where we see a big vacuum in moral and visionary leadership.

The conclusion I draw from this is, our nation is a reflection of our career choices, whether we like it or not.

The state of our country now is the product of what our elders believed our country required years ago. It was not a forward thinking vision of what would happen to our country today.

Today, we Nepali all face a similar choice. I believe it is in our selfish interest to mentor our children – the next generation – in ways to improve the sections of our Nepali society where it needs help.

If we want to produce good leadership, those who can unite Nepali together with a vision, maybe we should encourage the next generation to choose to “lead.” Ask them to take up careers in public services, or to become more involved in social, political, economic, and creative activism.

Tell them to take action! To stand up! To speak up! Tell them to unite people!

So the next time when some child or student or a random youth comes running for your career advice, please recommend this to her or him: “Be a leader, become a change maker, turn out to be a unifier!”

Prasanna Dhungel helped with this article. Thanks.

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First they came for the Himalis,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Himali.

Then they came for the Pahadis,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Pahadi.

Then they came for the Madhesis,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a Madhesi.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

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adapted from the famous German phrase
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6

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FIRST THE OLD VERSION STORY
The ant works hard in the scorching heat all summer building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

MODERN VERSION STORY (they are in Nepal)

The ant works hard in the scorching heat all summer, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant’s a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving and calls for a Nepal Bandh with “Chakka Jaam (interrupt vehicle movement)” and lots of “tire burning” to protest this “Soshan (domination)”.

Kantipur TV, Image TV and Nepal 1 TV show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. The nation is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so much?

The great political parties and citizens or professional groups of Nepal steps in and stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house and a concerned group goes on a fast along with other grasshoppers demanding that grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.

Amnesty International and Ban Ki Moon, the eighth Secretary General of the UN, criticizes the Nepal Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the grasshopper many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support to poor grasshoppers.

Immediately laws are tabled to prevent Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among ants and grasshoppers.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the “Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act [POTAGA]“, with effect from the beginning of the winter.

The ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Nepal Government and handed over to the grasshopper in a ceremony covered by all TV and media.

Everyone hails it as “a triumph of justice and revolutionary resurgence of the downtrodden”.

Ban Ki Moon invites the grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

End of the story of great justice done to the Grasshopper.

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What is going to happen in Nepal, tomorrow? or in 3 months ?

I will still wake up, around the same time, and smell the same cool, calm, fresh air in the morning, like I did today morning. Tomorrow, I will still be hungry to grab my food, and focus on what my family is going through and how to bring smiles in their faces. I will still obsess about how to make their lives better. AND I will still be angry and distracted after reading the morning news, wondering how the heck do I protect my future in the poorly managed Nepal.

As I head out the door, I will stay confused trying to figure out how to become a solution, instead of being part of a problem. How do I, a single Nepali in this vast sea of discontent, transform this gloomy, negative skies I walk around, into a positive sunshine? How do I walk high with dignity despite all these burning rage I feel?

Tomorrow, like today, I continue to spend my day, taking care of my family, making my family proud. I continue to make sure, that I live in peace and in safety here. I will continue to believe in and protect my freedom to do what I want in my country, without hurting any other person. No matter the cost, I will continue to protect this birth-right. When others see no progress, or slow progress, I will simply tell them, “I am a long distance marathon runner, not a hundred meter sprinter.”

And as the day moves ahead, I will keep looking around for Nepali with common sense to work with, to make this a place I want to live in. Any one who believes that, “This is my country, therefore my responsibility”. I will continue to feed my inner conscience with positive deeds that inspires others, when ever I get a small opportunity Come tomorrow, I continue searching others who wants to bear this collective responsibility to unite Nepalis and make us all prosperous.

And when I will come back home tired, I will have traveled a bit further, a bit stronger, bit wiser perhaps. Just before I sleep, I will again repeat at myself in front of the mirror, “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul, and I am here to make a difference.”

And when I go to sleep with my family safely around me, I will still dream, and dream big; “Tomorrow, I ain’t giving up on Nepal. Tomorrow, I start again; stronger!”

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यो लेख mysansar.com मा पनि  बैशाख १९ गते (may 2) छापिएको थियो।

Please read the English version here

साढे तिन अरब डलर भित्राउने नेपाली कामदारहरुलाई (नेपालका ठुला लगानीकर्ताहरु) कसरी सेवा दिन सक्छौँ ?

एक तथ्यान्क अनुसार बिदेशमा काम गर्ने नेपालीहरुले हरेक वर्ष करिब २ खर्ब ५० अर्ब रुपैयाँ नेपाल पठाउँछन् । यदि यसो हो भने नेपालमा लगानीको रुपमा बिदेशीहरुले भित्र्याउने भन्दा यो करिब पाँच गुणा बढी हुन आँउछ। यीनै ठुला लगानीकर्ताहरुबाट नेपालको करिब एक तिहाइ अर्थतन्त्र धानिएको छ। तैपनि हामी यी कामदार दाजु भाइ, दिदी बहिनीहरुलाई कुकुर सरह व्यवहार गर्छौँ ।

एकजना नेपाली दाजु अरबबाट दुई बर्षपछि आफ्नो परिवारलाई भेट्न बल्लतल्ल एक महिनाको छुट्टि लिएर फर्कन्छन्। साँझपख उसको जहाज  त्रिभुवन अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय बिमानस्थलमा उत्रन्छ। अनि लामो लाइनमा धेरै समयको लागि कुर्छ। पालो आए पछि सेवा दिन बसेको कर्मचारीबाट नानाथरिको बेइज्जति प्रश्नको सामना गर्छ । “तँ कहाँ काम गर्छस् ?  तेरो घर कता? कति पैसा छ तँ सँग? कहिले फर्कन्छस्? आदि, इत्यादि। यस माथि भन्सारको कर्मचारीले (शायद केहि घुस लिन होला) आफ्नो परिवारलाई ल्याएको सरसामानहरु एक एक गरी खोजतलास गर्छ। वाक्क दिक्क भएर ऊ बिमानस्थल बाहिर आउँदा रात परिसक्छ।

बाहिर ट्याक्सीहरु मौका छोप्न कुरिरहेका छन्। “गंगबुसम्म १५०० दिने भए जान्छु, नत्र जान्न” भन्छन् । यस्तै रहेछ, के गर्ने भनेर हरेस खाँदै “हुन्छ जाऊँ” भन्छन् हाम्रो दाजु। बिझाउने कुरा के भने यो त उसलाई काठमाडौँ देखि आफ्नो गाउँ जाने बस भाडा भन्दा महंगो पर्यो। उ आफ्नो गाँउ जान्छ तर तीन हप्ता बित्दा नबित्दै काठमाडौँ फर्किन बाध्य हुन्छ, नयाँ पासपोर्ट लिनको लागि। परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालय अगाडि यता उता दौडदैँ उसको हरिबिजोग हुन्छ। टन्टलापुर घाममा गु, मुतको गन्धबाट पीडित हुदैँ ऊ कुर्छ।

अनि अरब फर्कने क्रममा एक पल्ट फेरि बिमानस्थलमा उसको बेइजती गरिन्छ त्यहि जनताको सेवा गर्न बस्या कर्मचारीहरुबाट। जहाज चढ्दै एउटा लामो चयनको शास लिन्छन् हाम्रो नेपाली दाजु । उनी फर्कन्नन् नेपाल, अर्को दुई बर्षसम्म ।

के यसरी नै हो हामीले  करिब २ खर्ब ५० अर्ब रुपैयाँ नेपाल पठाउने नेपालीहरुलाई सेवा गर्ने तरीका?  नेपाल धान्ने नेपालीहरुलाई के यसरी नै धन्यवाद दिने हो त हामीले?

यस प्रथालाई बदलेर सबैलाई जित जितको परस्थिति बनाउन यसो गरे कसो होला?

• सरकारी बाधा अडचनहरु सके जति हटाऔं । परराष्ट्र मन्त्रालयमा उनीहरुका लागि छिटो भन्दा छिटो काम हुने छुट्टै संयन्त्र बनाऔं ।  पासपोर्ट बनाउनेजस्ता कामहरु आधा दिनमै सकाए कसो होला? अरु शहरबाट नि पासपोर्ट लिन संयन्त्र तयार गरौं । बैदेशिक रोजगार संस्थाहरुबाट सस्तो तथा भरपर्दो बिमा योजना गराऊने नियम लागु गरौं ता कि हरेक बैदेशिक रोजगार कामदारको सुरक्षा बिमा होस् । उनीहरुको लागि विमानस्थलमै विशिष्ट लाइन होस् र उनीहरुलाई यस्तो महशुस  होस् कि उनीहरुको कारणले हाम्रो देश आर्थिक रुपमा धराशायी हुनबाट बचिरहेको छ। हाम्रा सरकारी कर्मचारीहरुको बानी सुधार्नतिर पनि लागौं । जसरी कुइरेहरु नेपाल आउँदा खातिरदारी गर्छौँ, उनीहरुको पनि त्यस्तै गरौँ । राम्रा ग्राहक सेवा दिन कहलिएका निजी कम्पनीहरुसँग मिलेर भरपर्दो, सिधै विमानस्थलबाट आफ्नो गन्तव्यमा पु–याउने यातायात सेवा सुरु गरौँ ।
• बैदेशिक रोजगार सेवा दिने कम्पनीहरुले बैदेशिक रोजगारमा जाने हरेक नेपालीको जीवन तथा स्वास्थ बिमा गरौँ जसको रकम सस्तोमा र किस्तामा तिर्न मिल्ने खालको बनाऔँ। धेरै जनाको गर्दा कम्पनीहरुलाई फाइदा भैहाल्छ न।
• समाजसेवीहरु, तपाईंहरु उनका परिवारहरुलाई आत्मनिर्भर हुने सिप र तालिम दिन मद्धत गर्नुहोस् । कसरी उताबाट पठाएको पैसा जोगाउने र सही सदुपयोग गर्ने बारेमा सुझाब दिनुहोस् । पठाएको सबै पैसा लगेर महँगो टीभीमा खर्चिनु कति उपयुक्त होला अहिले को १४ घण्टे लोडसेडिंग भएको देशमा ?
• उद्दमी साथी हो, यसो उनीहरुको माझमा गएर जमघट गरे कसो होला ? उनीहरुबाट उनीहरुको परिवारको समस्याहरु थाहा हुन्छ। भन्छन्, समस्या एक महान अवसर हो। तपाईं पनि उनीहरुको साझा समस्याको समाधान निकाल्न यस्तो विचार निकाल्नुहोस् जसले दुवैलाई फाइदा होस् ।
• हाम्रो ब्यांक तथा बित्तिय संस्थाका साथीहरु, तँपाईहरु उनका परिवारलाई बिशेष प्राथमिकता दिनुहोस् । लगानी गर्न वा सानो उद्योग धन्दा खोल्न सरसल्लाह दिएर आफ्नो संस्थाबाट पनि लगानी जुटाउन सकिन्छ । उनिहरु त सुरक्षित रुपमा कमाउनेहरु हुन, कतिपयले त तपाईंकै बैंकमा पैसा राख्छन् होला। यसो गरे कसो होला? धेरै ब्याज भएको ऋणपत्र उहाँहरुलाई बेच्नुहोस् जुन कम्तीमा पनि पाँच बर्षमा मात्र झिक्न पाउँदछन्। अहिलेको स्थतिमा तपाईंहरुको माझमा एकदमै लोभलाग्दो अवसर छ।
• उनीहरुको सुझाव र विचारहरु लिएर नेपाली उद्योगमा लागू गर्नुहोस् गुणस्तर, सुरक्षा तथा छरितोपन बढाउन । सोच्नुहोस, यिनै नेपालीहरु हुन् जसले कत्तारमा सन् २०२२ को विश्च कप फूटबलको लागि अत्यधुनिक ठूला ठूला रंगशालाहरु बनाइरहेका छन्।

अन्तिममा यसो गरेमा, हामी सबैको जित-जित हुन्छ।

सोचौँ अब त्यही वाक्क भएर गएका नेपाली दाजु फेरि दुई बर्षपछि घर फर्कदैँछन् । जहाजबाट ओर्लिने बित्तिकै उ, आफु जस्तै कामदारहरुलाई भनेर बनाइएका एउटा छुट्टै द्रुत गतिमा अगाडि बढ्ने लाईनमा उभिन्छ। एक बिमानस्थल कर्मचारीले हसिँलो मुहारका साथ नेपालमा उसलाई स्वागत गर्छ। नेपाल भ्रमण तपाईको आरामसँग बितोस् भन्ने कामना गर्छ र बिमानस्थल भित्रैबाट गाँउसम्म जाने टिकेट किन्ने ठाउँ देखाइदिन्छन्, जहाँबाट सिधै आफ्नो ठाउँ पुग्न सक्छन। अनि आफ्नो सामानसँगै हाम्रो नेपाली दाजुलाई बाहिर बससम्म पुराइदिन्छन, जहाँ ऊजस्तै ५० जना बसमा आ-आफ्नो घर जान कुरि रहेका हुन्छन् । केही बाधा अडचन बिनै ऊ आफ्नो घर पुग्छन् र परिवारसँग मज्जाले बिताउछन्। पासपोर्टको लागि मात्र एक घण्टामै नजिकको शहरको कार्यालयमा गएर बनाउँदछन् ।

उ अहिले धेरै खुशी छ। आफूले पठाएको पैसाले उसँग एउटा पक्की घर छ। उसको श्रीमतीले उसले बिदेशबाट पठाएको पैसा जुन ब्यांकबाट लिन्थिन्, त्यहींबाट अहिले ऋण निकालेर एउटा सानो व्यापार पनि गरेकी छिन्।  अनि त्यो  उच्च ब्याजदरको ऋणपत्र जुनमा उनीहरुले बचत गरेका थिए त्यो पनि अर्को बर्ष लिन मिल्नेछ। यो बचत र आफूले अरबबाट सिकेको नयाँ अनुभवले गर्दा, हाम्रो नेपाली दाजु सोच्नु हुन्छ, “के अब फर्कनु पर्छ र त्यो ४५ – ५० डिग्री ताप्रक्रम भएको अरबमा काम गर्न?”

सारंसमा भन्नु पर्दा, हामीले २ खर्ब ५० अर्ब रुपैया नेपाल पठाउने आफ्ना नेपाली लगानीकर्तलाई जब कदर गर्न जान्नेछौं,  तब मात्र बाँकी संसारले नेपालमा लगानी गर्नेछन्। उनीहरुको सोच – हामीले आफ्नो लगानीकर्तालाई जस्तो व्यवहार गर्छौँ त्यस्तै नै व्यवाहार गर्छौ बिदेशी लगानीकर्ताहरुलाई पनि। उनीहरु त जहाँ लगानीकर्ताहरुको कदर हुन्छ, त्यँहि नै आफ्नो लगानी लान्छन।

तसर्थ आजैदेखि हाम्रा यी देश धान्ने साढे तिन अरब भित्राउने स्वदेशी लगानीकर्ताहरु यानी नेपाली कामदारहरुलाई उच्च सेवा दिन पहल गरौँ। विश्वले हामीलाई हेरिरहेछन्।

–यस लेख लेख्न मद्दत गर्नुहुने प्रसन्न ढुंगेल, आशुतोश तिवारी, बिजय शिवाकोटी, सन्जिव सुब्बा, सागर ओन्ता, बाल जोशीलाई धेरै धेरै धन्यवाद ।

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A friend tells me the story of a father who took his two boys to play mini-golf. At the ticket office he wanted to know the price.

- Five coins for adults, three for those over six years. Under six years entry is free.

- One of them is three, the other seven. I’ll pay for the oldest.

- You are silly – said the ticket seller. You could have saved three coins, saying that the oldest was under six; I would never have known the difference.

- That may be, but the boys would know. And they would remember the bad example for ever.

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That is why they told us to become a Professional ( Engineer, Teacher, Banker, Manager etc) or a Doctor or a Scientist.

“डक्टर वा इन्जिनियर है !”

Most frowned upon some of our ideas of making a career in sports, poetry, writing or even acting. Equally No No was Politics or Public Service or even the Army or Police. “After all the education you have got, you are going to be just THAT? !!” was their answer. Arts (Sociology, economics etc) and Commerce (Management, business, finance etc) was only if we were not good enough be a Doctor or a Professional (Engineer was the common name given then). Our mentors also never saw social sector as a viable alternative either. (maybe the concept was not born then).

Lately, I was curious to see whether their advice was effective in shaping our generation’s choices or not. Did they shape us into what we are today?
So I decided to test this out by checking to see how our high school classmates careers matched with the general trend of career advice given by our informal mentors at that time. Here are some statistics of a rough analysis of the current careers of my classmates from high school.

If you analyze this chart, there is virtually none (1%) of us are in the public sector (the yellow). This is we see a lot of problems in the Nepali society right now.
About half of us (50%) are working as professionals as recommended by our mentors years ago.
Nearly 1 out of 5 are in the medical field which was one of the popular career advises given by our mentors. About 15% of us are working as Bankers, Accountants and Managers, (This was the 3rd most popular career guidance back in those days)

Only 8% of us are engaged in some sort of entrepreneurial activity (that creates jobs and opportunities for others). Only less than 7% are involved in some sort of ways to help change the Nepali social problems. And these two sectors is where we see immense problems in ideas and leadership. Where did all the creative amongst us go ?

The conclusion I draw from this is, our choice of career (whether we like it or not) was the product of what the Nepali society believed it wanted two decades ago.

We have a similar choice today. I believe, it is in our interest to mentor our children (the next generation) in ways to improve the sections of our Nepali society where it needs help. If we want to produce good leaders, maybe we should encourage them to “lead”, take up careers in public service  or to become actively involved in social/political/economic/creative activism.

Isn’t this the need of the hour today in Nepal? If you think so, lets recommend this when you give career guidance the next time, “Become a Leader or a Change maker.“

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