Blind Love
"When I met him, he worked as a peon in my uncle's workplace. Sometimes, he would come to drop off stuff to my house and that's how we got to know each other. I really like his behaviour. He didn't...
"When I met him, he worked as a peon in my uncle's workplace. Sometimes, he would come to drop off stuff to my house and that's how we got to know each other. I really like his behaviour. He didn't...
"In the old days, when girls of my age were young, a man from India would come and do these tattoos in our bodies. When my friend was being pierced, I could see tears in her eyes because of the pain...
"My husband was telling me earlier that he wanted to help. But I told him that he has helped me enough already. All this life. I told him to go and rest and to let me finish this. I told him that he...
I think she decided to finally show herself after hearing a foreign voice ask random questions to her husband about dreams. Watch the previous picture to view the foreground.
"When I was small, I was a fast kid. I would run for miles and wouldn't even sweat. No other kids dared compete with me because they knew they would lose. During winter, while everyone covered...
I only said "Smaaaeeel".
"When he left 7 months ago, I couldn't cry in front of my in-laws. So I quietly entered the room, locked the door and wept." (Meena Mahato, Meghauli, Chitwan)
"You will have to shout to me for I can't hear normally. You will have to come closer for me to see you. The operation didn't help. But that is another thing. What I will say is, these days, every...
"After marriage, it was a few years of struggle but everyone in my new home were nice to me. They showed love and called me by my name. I was used to a lot of hardships and I didn't know that my life...
"My childhood was spent like an orphan. Love was only for the story books. When my mother eloped, she was pregnant with me. After I was born, father found us but didn't take me until I turned one and...
"I failed in Maths. But my father forgets I passed in all the other subjects."_x000D_ (Arun Mahato, Meghauli, Chitwan)
"Every time my friends talked about their father, I thought that they were making stuff up. I had lost him at a very small age. It was my mother who raised me and my sister. When she died, I felt...
"When I was small I used to watch the airplane fly in with foreigners from behind the mountains. We would be told that the foreigners came to climb Mt. Everest. Many of the men from the villagers...
"When I was small, there was no school in my village. Parents would send their children to the monasteries instead. It was only on 1999, the first school opened. Due to lack of resources, the people...
"After I completed my SLC, I pursued my education in Nursing. I went back to my village as a staff nurse to work at the health posts. At one point I was covering many villages as many as 6 out of the...
"I did well in school and so I was selected to study in Kathmandu through a German sponsor. When I started grade 5 in Kathmandu in 2003, the major challenge for me was the language. Everyone spoke in...
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