
Nepali chowk is the place to be on Fridays. :
Tristan Bruslé
With 266,000 people, and 100,000 more to come in 2008, the Nepalese in Qatar are about to become the first foreign community in this tiny Gulf country. They are also the first concentration of Nepalese outside Nepal and India. As soon as one steps off the plane from Kathmandu at Doha airport, one is struck by a certain kind of familiarity with the airport staff. The visitor to Qatar wonders at the number of young men speaking khas kura or wearing “Nepal” branded caps. In the streets of Doha, in shops, in shopping malls, in offices, in restaurants, on building sites, the Nepalese toil to earn their living and help their family at home.





The Limbus are a people who live in the hills of eastern Nepal, Sikkim, Darjeeling. Limbus’s total population is unknown, but approximately 359,371(1.58% of Nepali population).


