Hemlata Rai's "Sending money home" (#81) was a serious review of Nepal's migrant workforce. Nepal's labour export is pumping not just $850 million a year into the economy, as Rai writes, but as much as $2.5 billion through the hundi channels. Nepali Gurkhas in Brunei and legal Nepali employees in southeast Asia alone remit more than $400 million a year. This is how modern Nepal stays afloat. Maybe we should choose Nepal's next cabinet from among this hardworking lot.

J Prasai
Botswana