“I try to follow people who are great. Like Gautam Buddha. You know how he went into the jungle without water and food and meditated there alone. I wonder how he survived. It’s not like I go to the forest and meditate and not eat. I eat but I work like he meditated. My work is my meditation. And like Mahatma Gandhi. I try to think what can I do for my country. It’s not like I wear a dhoti and churn the wheel but once in a while I think what I can do for my country. But you know I am under SLC. I appeared twice but failed in four subjects both times. How could I pass in any other subjects when I can’t even pass in Nepali.”

– Netra Narayan Shrestha, Ekatabasti, Kavre