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"We will be on Facebook? Why didn't you tell us earlier?" (Daugha, Gulmi)

“We are happy to have you. New people hardly come to our village. Now there is not much to do here, you can play with the kids, have some Raksi and talk to my husband. Or you can take the animals to...

"When the food runs out, I go to the well-to-do of the village and ask them if I can borrow some rice. I tell them, 'I will repay if I can, but if in case I am not able to, you can take away my land....

Man 1: Take a picture of our side._x000D_ Woman 1: No, our side._x000D_ Man 2: Why not take picture of everyone?_x000D_ Crowd: Yes, yes everyone._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ (Kewul, Gulmi)_x000D_ _x000D_

What do you like about your sister?_x000D_ "She gives me sweets."_x000D_ What do you like about your brother?_x000D_ "His happiness."

"I have no dreams. I have no property to be able to dream. Just few hands of land, that won’t produce anything but still my heart won’t let me leave it barren. I have no water in my house even though...

“In the end, it really is nothing. But you see, everyone is fighting for something when in the end you get nothing. And the sad thing about all this is you only realise it when you grow old and it's...

"His father is in India. He works in a hotel, as a cook I hear. I know he is doing as much as he can to support us. Every time his father calls, this one jumps to grab the mobile. When he doesn't...

"I was married at a very young age. My father was a poor farmer and mother was sick most of the time. Like in most families in my community, daughters were born to be given to someone while sons were...

When a limping stranger with unkempt beard and hair arrives...

"I have been posted to the most remote villages in Nepal as a teacher. For the last 27 years, I have taught these children who come from deprived communities with very little awareness about the...

"She is the most happiest when she gets to sing and dance." (Dumber Bahadur Dangal, Rimuwa, Gulmi)

"My sister and I got married on the same day. She was 10 and I was 8. I didn't know what marriage was. I was just excited to hear the band play the flute and drums. I remember I fell off the Doli...

"For the last 16 years I have been teaching in a secondary school here. There are many Dalit villages around here but not a single student from the community has attended secondary school. I visited...

"For the last seventeen years, I have rented a room in her house. A few days ago, I had chest pain. I didn't think it necessary to tell anyone however the pain persisted. Apparently she had been...

"Sometimes in my dreams I see that I am not visually impaired, other times I see my friends help me. And sometimes I see they have abandoned me by the cliff." (Sunita Nepali, Santipur 4, Chandrakot,...