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"Mother started a little shop on the highway. Snacks, raksi and tea. This was when people started getting abusive on me. I remember a man throwing me in the bed and jumping on top me in the presence...

"They were happy and were doing well. They had a nice house. And because Mother was bold and not afraid of the patriarchs, women in the village found someone to rely on and to listen to their...

"I do not remember my life that much. It was a series of traumatic events. My first memories are of the daily fights at home. My dad used to get beaten up by my mom. This night, I woke up and I saw...

"My community has been continually fishing since the days of the Gods. But with the emergence of the human rule we are in decline and so is our occupation. There are people from elsewhere who have...

"Though many of the women I teach are not with their husbands, they rely on each other. To share there happiness and sadness. Their husbands are away in search of work most of the time. And they have...

"They bring the poison from across the border. They wait in the darkness of the night for it to dissolve in the water. The eggs of the fish die and sink to the bottom. The fishes die and go floating...

"I used to sell popsicles. I would carry the ice box in my shoulders and wander from village to village. I did not have a bicycle then. In exchange for the ice I sold I would get grains. Money came...

"We have spent the last 27 years, both in love and in sorrow, together. Our relation is not so weak for us to part our ways in the smallest of quarrels. How will I leave her? Where will she go?...

"The old stove collapsed so I am making a new one to cook rice for the family. There is no food without fire. No grains without rain. And no happiness without a full stomach. Eat with us, it is no...

"When my grandchildren laugh and run amok, I feel there is still good in life. I feel happy. What will money do when there is no happiness in it."

“The water level rises during the months of Shrawan and Bhadra. During that time, I understand my fear. I have seen many fishermen return home with injuries. And unable to work their lives become...

"Every time he leaves with his boat, I worry. The water is not a friendly place to be. And there are too many people fishing. The water has become dirty and he does not always come home with a bucket...

"After marriage, I had to stop going to school. My sister-in-law taught me how to sew. It is better than doing nothing. I earn 300 rupees a day. The villages bring their torn clothes to me because...

"The Koshi took away more than half of father’s land. He started talking less after that. The only thing he really knew was how to work the earth and with that gone, he felt he had lost his life....

"I grew up fast so that I could help mother."

"Working in the mud is not a problem, this where we came from and this is where we will go."