Nepali Animation Industry
Featuring the animation industry on the cover of your January 2009 issue, you have brought to the light a budding industry of the country which
holds the potential for rapid advancement in a short period of time. The efforts being made by the young entrepreneurs need encouragement and I pray that the cursed eyes of the taxmen don't fall on this budding sector. In this connection, lets recall what someone said in the recent past: "Nepal lagged behind in industrial revolution, green revolution as well as IT revolution." Let us not allow that happen in this Animation Revolution.
Prawal Pradhan
Thamel
Criti-quing Crity
Abhaya Panday's critical analysis of this year's Crity Awards (Nubiz January 09) provides a number of important suggestions. Crity Award has
been refined a lot since it was first started. However, there is always a scope for improvement. Hope that AAN will pay heed to the points Panday has raised.
Ramanuj Jha
Kathmandu
Informative interviews
Two interviews (one with Israeli ambassador Dan Stav and another with Soaltee Crowne Plaza's General Manager Greesh Bindra) that appeared in January edition of Nubiz were informative and interesting.
Little is known about the Israeli contribution in Nepal's economic development. The interview with Ambassador Stav fills that gap to some extent. The Nepalis have to learn a lot from the sort of miracle that the Israelis have achieved in various fields, particularly in agriculture.
Ambassador Stav's suggestions to the people and government of Nepal about how to do away with the anomalies noticed here in the process of sending people to work in Israel are worth serious consideration.
From General Manager Bindra's interview, we can draw a lesson or two. He has made it clear that if you provide quality food and service with reasonable consistency, the customers swarm to you with plenty of business opportunities not only from the town but also from across the country's borders - even for one lunch or dinner. If the restaurateurs of Nepal learn this and start offering best dining experiences to the customers residing in Kathmandu (both local and expatriate), they too can expect similar business as that of Soaltee. If that happens across the industries, the so-called global economic recession may not impact such industries.
Robin Pitt
Baluwatar
Elaborate on Bok's Initiation
I went through the article on Bank of Kathmandu 'Trying out the Untried' in the Feb issue of Nubiz. It seems that the bank is trying to do something new in Nepal's banking sector. However, the article did not clarify what exactly BoK is going to do. I would appreciate if you could elaborate more about it in the forthcoming issue. In this regard, let's not forget that most of the banks nowadays are saying that their focus is in rural areas. So what specifically distinguishes BoK's initiaves from those of the rest?
Rup Khanal
Bharatpur
