Re: Sugat Ratna Kansakar's reply (Letters, #156) to Pravesh Saria's letter (#155) regarding the indifference in NTC about extending mobile phone reach ('No freedom to roam', #153). Most Nepali migrants in the US feel guilty for leaving our homeland for the material temptation of this country. That is why we try to "cleanse" ourselves by seeing everything in Nepal in a negative light. There are a lot of academics and professionals in Nepal who choose not to go abroad. There is another group who left, were pretty successful but turned around to go back home. Does this mean that they are all "incompetent" compared to others in the US? Corruption, political connections can play roles, but that doesn't mean those are the only paths to doing better. I am in the US now but I was just an average guy in my medical school. A lot of my academically superior friends "chose" not to come here. Does this not say something? Unlike us, there are people who stayed back and faced adversities. Can't we, for once, be more truthful and honest with ourselves?

Manoj Khatri,
Chicago