ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how diasporic visitors recollect ‘home’ during and after their visit and how such recollections contribute to their home-land identity and sense of belonging to their home nation. It looks at the production of ‘home’ and ‘memory’ in the daily performances of the Nepali diasporic community and also examines how the sense of home and belongingness is articulated while discussing the earthquake and its influence on their subsequent homeland travel. Separation from home or homeland is relatively new to Nepalis. Though Nepalis have migrated from their ancestral villages to newer pastures, this has been mostly confined within their national border. In usual parlance, ‘diaspora’ suggests a dislocation from the original nation-state or geographical location. However, in the case of the Nepali diaspora, they are very well connected with their home nation. Members of the Nepali diaspora community were fully apprised of the political developments in the ‘home’ country and its impact on the government’s reconstruction work.
