Kathmandu, June 14 -- Here are your choices:
1. Remain in your village, the home you've known all your life, surrounded by loving friends and family, eating dal bhat twice a day and hoping to pick up enough work here and there to send your growing children to good schools, provide nutritious food for your soon-to-arrive baby and avoid moving to far-away, expensive Kathmandu to find work.
2. Follow in the footsteps of many friends and acquaintances from your village and district: borrow money from the same loving relatives and friends to cobble together the lakhs demanded by a middleman who will promise you a good job, a plane ticket and a visa to Malaysia or the Gulf.
For decades, thousands of Nepalis have reluctantly chosen Option 2. ...