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From night-shift convenience-store work in Texas to building Quick Track and LaMa Group, Pasang Lama’s journey shows how immigrant entrepreneurship is built through operations, family capital and disciplined scale.
Bartika Eam Rai built one of contemporary Nepali music’s most distinctive voices by writing from the emotional distance between Lalitpur and New York, home and migration.
Manjushree Thapa has spent decades writing Nepal through fiction, political nonfiction and translation, moving between English and Nepali, Kathmandu and the wider world.
Samrat Upadhyay became the first Nepali-born fiction writer widely published in the United States, turning intimate Kathmandu lives into internationally recognised literature before expanding into the dystopian scale of Darkmotherland.
Lujendra Ojha first noticed Mars’s mysterious recurring slope lineae as an undergraduate. The observation led to major research on hydrated salts, active Martian geology and a broader career in planetary geophysics at…
Apa Sherpa climbed Everest 21 times, then turned record-setting fame toward education, climate awareness and the belief that Sherpa children should have more choices than he did.
Prabal Gurung built a global fashion career across Kathmandu, New Delhi and New York, using luxury design to question beauty, citizenship, queerness and belonging while sustaining long-term work in Nepal.
Gaurika Singh grew from Nepal’s youngest Olympian into its most decorated South Asian Games swimmer, carrying training, study and identity across Nepal, Britain and the United States.
Lhakpa Sherpa’s eleven Everest summits sit inside a larger life of Sherpa labour, migration, motherhood, survival, K2 and a late-arriving global recognition.
Shared stories about life abroad, family and returning home.
Overseas income supports Nepal's households and foreign reserves. Its success also asks an uncomfortable question about the economy at home.
Nepali households increasingly have to coordinate care, marriage, money and belonging across different places and time zones.
A red tika, a phone screen and an altered sense of time: what happens to Nepal's biggest family festival when the family is spread across countries.
For Nepalis abroad, a holiday home can become a negotiation between the country remembered and the country that exists.
A family's earnings may cross borders in seconds. Parenting cannot always travel so easily.
A practical admin checklist for Nepalis abroad: fix your SIM ownership, NID, Nagarik App, bank KYC, DEMAT, roaming, PAN and account recovery before leaving Nepal again.