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on 20-Aug-02 12:32 AM
In the land of opportunities, Nepali émigrés shy away from risks
By Prateek Pradhan
NEW YORK, Aug 18
In just nine years after his arrival to the US, Anjan Shrestha, 31, turned out to be one of the few millionaire Nepali businessmen. Shrestha, who came here as a student today owns and operates eight gas stations in Dallas, Texas, and possesses assets worth about $ 10 millions.
Mridula Koirala followed her Ph.D. candidate husband to the USA in 1988, relinquishing her promising career of a television journalist. She started working in strawberry farms in Ohio for as little as $10 a day, and again worked at a McDonald’s and a host of other restaurants in New York. Within eight years of her struggle, she managed to own a restaurant in Manhattan at 78th and Amsterdam Avenue, near Central Park.
Shreedhar Gautam came to the USA in 1994, and began his life here working in a laundry at Pittsford in Rochester, New York for about a year. He later bought the same Laundromat and today, after rapid expansion of his business, oversees dozens of employees and does business worth over half a million dollars.
These are some of the go-getter Nepalis, who came here almost bare-handed, worked hard and made their fortunes in, what is still thought to be, the Land of Milk and Honey. But these are also the exception rather than the rule, for many Nepalis still labour hard to meet even basic necessities. According to leading members of the Nepali community in the US, very few Nepalis have exploited opportunities in the USA to start a business, and be your own boss.
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