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"I had gone home, to Jhapa during Holi. I think it was 2010. Luckily_x000D_ or by chance everyone had returned home that year. So we played Holi together after a long time. Everyone was happy, you...

"My biggest accomplishment is my family. Four sons and a daughter. But I feel like I have missed out on a lot of things. Didn't get to know the world outside of my immediate family. My life has been...

"When mother was alive, things were different."_x000D_ - Kumar Thapa Magar, Met him in Basantapur, Kathmandu

"An artist is always emotional. Without emotions there is no art. Even when I listen to songs and watch an emotional scene in a movie I get teary. And when I draw the hills I have to go there. I mean...

"Mother had made rice pudding and left for the fields when I sneaked into the kitchen and ate most of it. She nearly killed me that evening."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Met him near Motipur, Rupandehi

"There are somethings that you cannot disclose. I perfectly understand your questions. But there are things that I cannot disclose. I am fine."_x000D_ - Hom Prasad Poudel, Kavre. Met him in near...

"My mother died when I was six month old so my aunt took me with her. I never called her aunt. I called her mother. She raised me like one of hers. They became my family. When I was 11 she fell off...

"Every time I made tea for my two sons, I’d put aside some for myself. And it became a habit. But they have left me and they will never come back. The doctors couldn't couldn't cure them. Maybe it...

"The things I say is taken as amusement. But I am actually trying to tell them something and not trying to amuse them. When you become old you become an object - an object for pity and amusement....

"I don’t know why mother had to cut my hair. Everyone calls me a boy now. The boys scream boy, boy, boy when they see me and even the girls scream boy, boy, boy when they see me." _x000D_ _x000D_ -...

"I have seen my friend destroy everything in his life. After his parents died his drinking escalated. For almost a decade, on many occasions, I have carried him home, washed him up and put him to...

"The only thing that matters when you are a kid is playing with your friends. It's your only worry. And then you grow older and all you care about is roaming around with friends, spending money in...

"I have been working as a carpenter all my life. Sometimes the kids from my neighborhood come to me and ask to make them airplanes. And because they are kids I do. And while I make the airplanes, I...

"For many years, I have been coming to Butwal to sell herbs and spices from my village in Jumla. There are buses now from Surkhet to bring me here, but at one time there were no roads and no buses....

"When my father died, I was 16. He was in the police. He was a strict man of discipline. I remember, when we were kids, every morning before he left for work, I had to polish his boots and my brother...

"She was a widow when I met her. My relatives told me that I could get another girl but I didn't see any faults in her. How can the death of her husband be her fault? So I married her and spent an...