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"What a fine day today. I am at work and intend to make good money. I hope Nepal Bandhs don't start again." Laughs._x000D_ _x000D_ Rim Bahardur Dai, Met him in Thamel, Kathmandu

"How dare you come to my village, take my picture and then eye my food?"_x000D_ _x000D_ He did't really say that but was really into his food and was okay until I started getting closer. Met this...

"For me I think there are two kinds of people. The one's who trek and the one's who don't."_x000D_ Anything you want to say to the one's who don't?_x000D_ "Nothing really. And I am not against...

"I am my dad's favorite but my twin brother thinks it otherwise."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Pushpa Laxmi Lama and Sujit Lama, Bolde-Kalleri, Timal VDC, Kavre

"Back in London, everything felt gray. The weather, the concrete and just the whole ambience. Chinese takeouts had become the staple diet. Today, I can tell nothing compares to being back home,...

"You make you own future. Sometimes you will feel that you don't have a choice but if you look inside yourself long enough, you will realize you always had a choice. You were just in denial. Life is...

What's your favorite fruit?_x000D_ "Don't you know that a fruit seller hardly eats any fruits?"_x000D_ Why is that so?_x000D_ "It's like eating the food you prepared for you guests." Laughs._x000D_...

"A man with panache_x000D_ A drifter with dreams_x000D_ The embers of the fire_x000D_ Concealed amidst godly clouds_x000D_ Red men and prayer wheels"_x000D_ _x000D_ Sagar Magar is the youngest...

"I hit my head and bled profusely. I had to have stitches on my forehead a few years. Then, I had thought I would lose my eye. My mom had taken me to the village health post. The nurse didi at the...

My gratitude goes out to all the storytellers I have met. You all have made me understand life better. And the Stories of Nepal community for all your support. And thank you Hari Bansa Acharya Dai...

"I don't like hanging out with the kids. They talk nonsense. I wish the men didn't leave the village."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Pema Tamang, Bolde-Kalleri, Timal VDC, Kavre

"My son left me this jacket. It's really warm. Now I just need a pair of shoes for my morning walk. Hopefully, when he comes back next time."_x000D_ _x000D_ - Sita Tamang, Bolde-Kalleri, Timal VDC,...

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of...

"You are wrong if you think that the divide between the rich and the poor exists only in the cities. Even here, in this rural village, there exists the have and the have-nots. The have's enjoy the...

"I hope I will be able to work as a manager when I finish my education. I really work hard at school and hardly miss my classes. However, there are days when I have to help my mother with the morning...