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"I have spent 20 years as a science teacher in government and community schools. Many of the postings have been outside home, mostly in the hills. And I am very accustomed to the way of living...

"I wanted to be a nurse growing up. However, I never could gather the courage to express my wish to my father. For he was a strict man, a man who had spent his life as an army. I then went to ask an...

"I must have been 20 then. I had returned home to find that in rage, father had beaten up a man who subsequently died. He had acted on an ill rumor and under influence of alcohol. He served 12 years...

"Mother had lost a daughter and a son. Her daughter lived for a few years while her son for a few months. Born the third child and living beyond mother’s expectations, I became mother’s worry. The...

“I have forgotten my stories. You will too when you live beyond your age. I am not sure what you see in me that interests you. Take all the pictures you want. But be careful, there might not be so...

"We have been walking these jungles since we were boys. We have become old. We are men like dried up logs and we are still walking these jungles. We are accustomed to every corner, every brook, every...

"I make ghee and I sell ghee. People from all over the district come to me for the ghee. Now, you took my picture so there is no leaving without you buying my ghee."

"I like maths. How you can plus numbers and then minus them again. Sometimes you also get a zero. You cannot do anything with a zero, can you? Now I do not want to be a zero. So in class, I try to...

"After I left, I took my son with me. It is just me and him now. I run this small tea shop and god willing I am able to feed my son two meals. Not so long ago, I was entirely dependent on my husband....

“I was the happiest in the family when my youngest son brought home a wife. Good or bad, she was now my own daughter. Most of the times we did the home chores together. We shared our duty. She would...

“When I was two years old, father threw me in a water container. Mother tells me when she returned home from the pastures, I was barely alive. I was a daughter, the youngest of us four sisters. A boy...

"It took me 7 years to complete my Bachelors. Even so, I barely passed. I took my life and the privileges of living with my parents for granted. My priority always revolved around escaping reality. I...

"I do not remember the faces of my mother and father. The photo on their citizenship was torn and black and white. I do not remember so much from my childhood, only faint memories of living with...

"I will let her marry when she wants to. If she wants to stay alone and single, that is fine with me too. But that is too far. She has to start going to school first. At home, I will tell her about...

"I could never share my feelings with anyone. Most of the times I was afraid of what they were going to say. I am a girl and where I grew up no one listened to girls or women. When I came here, I...

"If I do well in SLC, I am going to try to become a Pharmacist. When I do, maybe I will be able to learn about new medicines so that I can grow back my hair. When my hair started falling, I used to...