“I was very handsome when I was young. The girls would start whispering the minute they saw me. I think I still am. (Laughter). In this village, I am among the very few who took away a girl. There was no money in the family for an arranged marriage, so I thought I will just run away with her. You know, our love was a different kind. It is very different now. We were shy people. The kids nowadays have mobile phones so love happens over the phone. In our times love happened in person. (Laughter)” (Bahadur Shrestha, Shyamsadhu, Ghumthang 7, Sindhupalchok)
