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"I will work as long as my life remains. Working for my food is what has made me happy in this life."

"When I was little and naive, father and mother married me to a man I did not know. I was 14 and was going to the 7th grade. That was the last I saw of school and my close friends. I remember boy,...

"He is growing up and starting to demand things. Some of which I am not able to give. My eyes well up when I see him disappointed. But I promise him that I will buy a better present for him the next...

"I am going to be a mother soon. This is my fourth child and I am waiting for it to see this beautiful world. I hope the world will be kind to my baby is getting what he/she desires in life. My world...

"The riches of my father did not give me an easy life growing up. Father had three sheds. Yaks, Sheep and Goats. One for each kind. He had eighteen Yaks, two hundred sheep and I did not count the...

"You do not need money to smile at people. You need heart."

"It was what happened on the day of the carnival that changed my life. Back then, I used to work for the hydropower in Somdang. I had arranged for the hydro’s jeep to take the villagers up to the...

"I spent 5 years in the foothills of the Ganesh Himal with my father. We moved from Kharka to Kharka - the Gothen Kharka, Somdang Kharka and the Jaisur Kharka. My father, though I have lost him now...

"Father lives up in the moors herding Yaks and for a while I lived with him too. One day, he had summoned me. He said, “I am going to move from here, the grass lacks goodness and the Yaks do not look...

"My mother died when I was four. I do not know what she looked like. I remember her but sadly, without her image in my eyes. Now that we talk about her, I wonder if she resembled my daughter. My...

"I am going to a wedding feast and after that, I will walk full stomach for an hour or two and go stay with my animals in their shed up the hill. I will have a whole day to rest with them. But come...

"From childhood, I have seen a lot of wrong in the society. Especially for women. The want for a son amongst men and women in the community is so strong that someone who questions this practice is...

"I look after the animals all day. There are not many people to talk to in these hills. Sometimes, I smile at the tourists and they talk to me thinking I speak their language. Some ask me directions...

"My husband is in Malaysia and this Falgun it is going to be 5 years. He calls me often. Nowadays, it has become very easy with this thing called mobile. Back then we had this thing called Telephone....

"After the floods, I keep her closer. She has become the source of my happiness. Sometimes, tears fall down just watching her. I do not know why." _x000D_ _x000D_  

“I have walked all the way from the hills with this sack, weighing scale and iron to sell my turmeric. I have become yellow but I have also come to the final understanding that to carry your own...