All Stories

"Ten meters ahead a leopard leaped in front of me from a tree. I froze. It took a step forward. I closed my eyes and thought of mother, father and sister. A moments passed and nothing happened. I was...

"She can always tell what I am thinking."_x000D_ - Betani, Thakur Dwara, Bardiya

This was after I showed her the pictures. Her serious disposition changed into bursts of laughter and joy. A great moment to relive. I can only imagine her happiness when she receives the...

"Last year I barely passed. I really didn’t want to study. I told mother that I would help her with the household but she said no. This year I reluctantly went to school. My new teacher Laxman Sir...

"Day in day out we meet the same people. Neighbors and family from the collection of 11 houses in the village. After a while there is nothing_x000D_ to talk about. Topics become redundant. Sometimes...

Sometimes the children won’t speak. Sometimes I fail to communicate and sometimes they are not able to answer my questions. But I know they have stories. Wild, untamed and elaborate ones. And I am...

"The hail destroyed all our crop so there is no work except for us to_x000D_ gather here, smoke sulpa and laugh at our misery."_x000D_ _x000D_ Jhobri Tiwari, Sukter 9, Mugu

"I believe in a world out there where we all will be judged, for every good and evil we have done. For what we have done to others will not go overlooked. Our every deeds will be calculated and the...

When I stopped at this little cottage for a breather, she had just prepared the Supla and placed a clean burning coal on top of it. I asked her if I could take her picture smoking it. She declined...

What is your biggest regret?_x000D_ "When I was twenty, I and my friend were offered to go to Kathmandu to join the security forces of the then King. We were to go to Kathmandu and walk around...

"We are returning back home from my parent's house. Every once in a while my husband brings me and my daughter to visit them. It is a long distant walk from where we live but when we see them we are...

"They call me a mad person. A crazy person. But I am not mad. They almost convinced me I was. But I am not. My parents died when I barely had any senses of the world. Those who raised me to become an...

"This neighbor came up to me and told me not to come around her house. She told me her kids are scared and they get sick when they see me. Every time people throw words at me, I ask myself when will...

He smiled with joyous abandonment and so did everyone in the classroom. Wishing you all a happy Tihar. May all your childhood dreams come true.

"Within a span of a few months my mother went from being perfectly healthy to losing both her kidneys. But now she contracted Hepatitis C and chronic pneumonia so transplant is not possible until she...

"I am trying to do enough good so that when I leave people will remember me."_x000D_ What is one good you did today?_x000D_ "I fed some monkeys."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Lakpa Sherpa, Kapan, Kathmandu