Kathmandu, Aug. 15 -- The country's sole dollar billionaire, Binod Chaudhary's, new memoir, 'Made in Nepal: Lessons in Business Building from the Land of Everest', is, above all, a window into his mind. The truthfulness with which Chaudhary writes is striking. He does not attempt to conceal facts that may portray him in a bad light. He is, for example, upfront about the relationship between business and politics.

"Businessmen politicians were a reviled lot," he says in the part talking about his political journey. He has written with a type of awareness that most of the rich and powerful lack.

At the beginning of his work is a note addressing protests last September, in which he points to Nepal's staggering economic inequality as the is...