Onwards Now !! Next chapter for My Nation.

As the previous chapter of my life comes to a close, I find myself heading in a direction that feels both familiar and entirely different.

I’m back to a regular old 9-to-5 job, working with the same company I was with a few years ago—one run by my big brother. We supply a wide range of goods to various government agencies through competitive bidding. As exciting as that might sound to a War Dogs fanatic, the reality is considerably less cinematic.

Still, the work has its ups and downs. You meet different people, encounter different institutions, and learn a thing or two along the way. More than anything, though, it has given me a much closer look at how our government functions—or, in many cases, struggles to function.

What strikes me most is not the failure of any single individual, but the shortcomings of the system as a whole. There are countless parts of it that need fixing, modernizing, and, quite frankly, greasing. In this day and age, when technology has transformed nearly every aspect of human life, the idea that we cannot build a more efficient, transparent, and responsive system of governance is difficult to accept.

I have tried, in my own small ways, to contribute before. Years ago, I pushed for change through the traffic light petition. It may seem like a minor issue compared with the mountain we still have to climb, but seeing an idea I had advocated for eventually implemented on a larger scale gave me a profound sense of possibility. It showed me that change, however difficult, is not impossible.

About a decade ago, I wanted change and decided to push for it. Seeing even a small part of that vision become reality planted in me an ambition for this nation that has never really gone away.

There is no simple road ahead, and I am preparing myself for the challenges that lie before us.

Nepal has been struck by disaster after disaster, and far too often we have been caught unprepared. Earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires and other crises repeatedly expose the same weaknesses. If we want to change that pattern, we cannot rely on temporary solutions or wait until the next emergency forces us to act. What we need is a fundamental modernization of the nation—of our institutions, infrastructure, technology, emergency preparedness and, perhaps most importantly, the way we think about governance itself.

Meanwhile, much of the world’s attention is dominated by leaders such as Xi Jinping, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, and by the enormous powers they represent. Smaller countries are often pushed to the sidelines of global affairs. The sheer scale of the states they lead gives them enormous influence, but history has repeatedly shown us that size alone does not determine the strength, relevance or destiny of a nation.

A small country can still be capable, respected and influential.

That is the future I want for my country.

I want this small nation of roughly thirty million people to rise to the occasion—to become a country that is prepared rather than reactive, ambitious rather than complacent, and capable of finding its place in a world where new powers and new ideas will continue to emerge.

It may take decades. I may not see everything I hope for within my own lifetime. But I assure you, dear reader: just as I intend to keep moving forward, so too will my nation.

And perhaps, one day, it will rise far higher than many of us currently imagine.