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"We don’t speak rough rough except for that one time when we had a fight with the other boys. They started speaking rough rough and we also started speaking rough rough."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Met them...

"I really don't know when my father and I grew apart. I think it is after I started following a certain lifestyle. You know I love tattoos and piercings and my father never approved of it. I think...

"I have hammered iron for the last twenty seven years. Into thousands and thousands of sickles."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Bhim Bahadur Bika, Met him on my way to Motipur, Rupandehi

After spending few long, cold and foggy days, wandering the alleys of the Old Butwal, I couldn’t wait to see sunshine, until I saw one._x000D_ _x000D_ Her name is Bisha Pariyaar.

"I come from a family of tailors. So I have seen a lot of discrimination in my life. I have tried to raise my children away from that environment but sometimes someone says something and they start...

"10 months ago, I woke up to find that I couldn’t move my hands and legs. The doctor diagnosed me with GBS syndrome, where the peripheral nervous system shuts down without prior symptoms. I was...

"When I was six, I fell off the roof of my neighbors house and broke my back. Since then, many people have labelled me as disabled. I know they must feel sorry for me. But I don’t feel sorry for...

"I don't know the meaning of this. No one ever told me and it never occurred to me that there could be a meaning, so I never asked. I remember I was among the many young girls who got it back then....

"When I was young and had enough blood in my bones, maybe half a century ago, I drove one-horse carriages in Delhi. I remember this beautiful brown horse, slim and tall. She came with one of the...

“I laugh with them while they laugh at me."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Ramu Nepali, Haatbazaar 7, Butwal, Rupandehi

"I want to become a fashion designer. Different hairdos and clothing interest me. I also want to become a nurse. But I need to complete my school exams first. If I get above 85% in my school exams I...

"All is well in the family. With 3 grown up sons, a healthy wife to help me around the shop, there's not much I can complain about. Sometimes, I also work as a mason, building houses and that fetches...

"When I was 5, my father returned from India with his family and squatted in a piece of uncultivable land by the Tinahu river. But he left for India again. School was a far-fetched dream. I had to...

“I don’t know what to say. I think I am 35 and I row boat at the lake during the day and serve food at a restaurant at night. Is that enough? And I am from Ambute, Sindhuli. You can write that. I...

"I will let him dream his own dreams."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Dawa Tamang w/ his son Tenzin. Met him in Lakeside, Pokhara

After making a few rounds of the lakeside trail, I stopped by to snack at his stall in Pokhara. After some small talk, I asked him if I could take his picture. He agreed but each time I requested him...