“My father brought home a new wife when I was young and my mother was left without any support. I saw her cry many times and her life was filled with hardships. To raise us. To feed us. From when I was 9, I started working hard labour to support the family and my ailing mother. Ultimately she succumbed to illness. I don’t know if I blame my father for what happened to my mother. He also died recently. Before he died he was bed-ridden for two years and had lost his speech and hearing. So I never got to ask him, why he abandoned us and my mother. I never got to tell him, “Father, because you brought another wife home and abandoned us, I couldn’t go to school and I had to take care of mother until she died in pain.” But every time I watched him fight for death, my resentments would turn to pity.” (Ram Bhusal, Muglin, Chitwan. Met him in Basantapur, Kathmandu)