The Princess was Bunu Maharani, a sister of the then King Tribhuvan. This was the beginning of the learning of the ups and downs of life. She was assigned the job of cleaning the temple inside the palace as well as preparing for daily Puja. In the process, she learned how to speak. how to behave with people and today she thinks that was the time when she was spoilt. When asked why she thought so she told that being a small and beautiful child other maids and people in the palace used to pamper her. Although she was a maid she had a special status in the palace. However, she thinks that it was an educational institution for her to learn life skills.

Another important turning point came quite early. When she was only nine, the Princess died. Hence she had to leave the palace and came back to her parental home. Now, life took a harsh path for a child of that age. A girl who spent quite some time in a palace had to face the reality of life. The house was not even a decent house rather it was a small hut made of thatch and mud. Parents sent her to a school which she left only after attending for three days. That was the end of her formal education.

As per the practice of the time she was married when she was only thirteen years old. She had her first child very next year which unfortunately was miscarried. She went through the same experience once again. She had her first live child when she was twenty. Then another shock came into her life. As she was in hospital after the childbirth her husband’s girlfriend turned into the hospital and started to abuse her. She felt very bad for that. But never gave up. She began to live independently and started a new life with the child. 

However, later she had two more children, all girls. When the first child was only three months old she started to work in an expatriate’s (A Russian diplomat) home. She continued to live in her parental home with children. Working in foreigners’ homes continued where she learned to understand and speak the English language. She also learned to cook different types of food and other aspects of behavior. At the age of 25, she had to leave her husband forever and began a completely independent life which was a difficult phase of life because in Nepal a woman without a male member to look after is taken by surprise. So that was really a downside of life. 

However, the fighter inside Laxmi did not surrender to the hardships. She committed to herself that despite the problems she would make her children a Thulo Manche (someone special with high socioeconomic status). For that, she worked up to 19 hours a day. In 1979 she left the job of serving in the expatriates’ homes because she felt that she had been exploited and was extremely unhappy with what she was doing. However, the need for survival was a big issue. She started to plan for the future when one skill came as a rescue. She used to prepare some postcards in her leisure time and sold it to those foreigners with whom she worked. This helped her in a small way during those days. 

However, after leaving the safety of working for others and getting paid at the end of a month she had no option but worked a little hard to make the skill a serious means for living. She also began to wash wool used to make carpets for a living. At this point in time, she met with a cousin of an American to whom she worked. The girl came forward to help her. She took her to India in August 1979 in a visit where she explored some entrepreneurial venture. After some time she was again sent to India (Benaras). a short-term training to run machines. After having some ideas in the machine she bought a Tempo (a three-wheeled vehicle) to earn a living after borrowing Rs 10,000 from her aunt. The venture was successful and she had four Tempos in a short time span of one and half years. 

However later she realized that the drivers were cheating her and left the business. In the meantime, she went to Benaras, India, and learned to maintain the Tempo, and started a workshop in Kathmandu to maintain the vehicle. It was the first time a woman had started such kind of maintenance shop in the capital. However, gender came as a hindrance. People did not believe her. The drivers of the Tempo, who were all men, had doubt in her ability to provide high-quality maintenance for their vehicles. She was burdened by Rs.70,000 as a loan because of the business. Therefore she had no option but to leave the business.