All Stories

September 2014, I had visited Thulgaon in Pipaltaar, Nuwakot and spent a few days with the Kumals listening to their stories. I also got to understand their livelihood and formed a special bond with...

"I am very proud of my work. I am satisfied. I don't bang my head because I have to work. Whatever I do is sufficient for survival. If I break my hands or legs, then that is a different thing. Until...

"The department used to hold a moustache competition back in the day. I am not sure if they still do. When everyone gathered, the room would look like an episode from the Ramayan, where demons...

Something that arose from my wanderlust, my passion in photography and listening to stories has grown into something I do full time now. I travel to different districts in Nepal and meet with...

"The school in my village ran only up to the 5th grade. So I had to discontinue because the nearest high school was 3 hours walk. I found work as a peon that paid me a mere 150 rupees a month. It was...

It is very humbling to share moments of joy with someone. Here, everyone is busy selecting copies of their pictures.

As I was taking pictures of her mother, I looked down to see her pulling my shorts.

“My brother left school few months ago because my father could not pay for his school and for his books. So now he works with my father as a carpenter. I still go to school. I don’t think my father...

"Everyday we wake up with the fear that they will come back again. With papers and eviction notices. Where can we go when we have nothing. So many people have so much and so many have nothing. I...

"I have never felt this way. Until a few years back everything seemed normal. I was doing what I was expected to do, from my family and from the society. And to be honest, I really didn’t have any...

"Few years ago, on my way back home, a truck hit me. I survived the ordeal with three broken bones in my leg. I could not walk. The children would leave for school and my wife to work and I would be...

Namaste All,_x000D_ _x000D_ Coming October, in collaboration with LAST FRONTIERS TREKKING I will be revisiting the Tsum Valley in Gorkha. There will be 6-8 fellow trekkers accompanying me. Together...

"Back in the day, when I was working in the Department of Forest Protection, it was routine for me to patrol the forest on my elephant. This one day, I came across over a dozen of poachers camped in...

"I don't want to think what I will do when I grow up." - Manoj, Bungamati, Lalitpur

"I have two pairs of jackets which I wear. I make sure that when I am wearing one the other one is dry and clean so I can change as soon as the one I am wearing gets dirty. I wear them twelve months....

I somehow made my way in to see what the ruckus was all about to witness this. After a few pictures, I went near him and asked him if he could remove his mask so that I could take his picture without...