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"I spend six months in a rehab. I was discharged three months ago. Even today, I struggle to understand why my family put me there. They tell me that it was for my own good. But my time inside was...

"My mother died when I was nine months so there was no one to look after me. I was severely malnourished - just skin and bones. My father had seen four of his brother’s children die in quick...

"My earliest childhood memories are of a friend and I running after dragon flies and dandelions in a field of endless flowers, with joyous abandonment. Life was beautiful."_x000D_ - Pramod Thapa, Met...

"He looked like he had come from a distant village. It was 1981 and back then I worked at the Citizenship Section of the CDO office. I could see that this man was in distress. He was constantly...

"Film stars and celebrities have some kind of air. They hold a certain pedestal. When I got to meet these Bollywood stars I almost went crazy just like a typical fan. I grew up watching them and...

"I watched Gregory Peck play General MacArthur in the hollywood movie MacArthur. General MacArthur was the greatest american general in the second world war. The Japanese surrendered in front of him....

"I have lost the only picture I had of my father. He died when I was two so I have no memories of him. But I had made my own image of him and his character through that picture. I know I have lost a...

"Nothing beats this warm fire and some stories of happiness and sadness in the cold of Kathmandu."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Naren Shahi, Met him in Basantapur.

"The space that you create for yourself in the minds and hearts of others is the only thing you leave behind. And that’s exactly what I am trying to do by being good and doing good."_x000D_ Anything...

"It is not easy coming from a broken family, especially when your mother is always sick and your father is an alcoholic. Money was always scarce and I wished to have mother treated in a good...

"The principle, vice principle and a student representative officer walked into our classroom and warned us that boys and girls should not be sitting together and that it was against the college's...

"You have made me reflect on my whole life. Questions that I have been avoiding. I am 23 and this point life gets volatile. Can I take some time?"_x000D_ Sure. (Pause)_x000D_ "I think I would let go...

"Every year my father took us to the Manakamana temple. It was like a family ritual. This one time, on our way back from the temple, I ran half way down the hill thinking that my parents would...

“It's my first time in Kathmandu. I arrived a few days ago. For me, it is a big thing coming to the capital. Finally, I am here and the cold of my village is behind me.”_x000D_ What do you like about...

"We always told our son that his guitar won't take him anywhere. But he kept to it. He would come back from school and start practicing. He and his friends have formed a band now they will be playing...

"Burnt alive. Beaten and forced to eat human feces for being a ‘witch.’ Raped. Molested. Abused, physically and psychologically, in public spaces, in front of mute bystanders. The news about violence...