Babita, Geet and Sunil by a shop
Babita, Geet and Sunil by a shop
Tupche, late 2002
Closer up
Closer up
Closer up
Siblings Sarita and Sunil and their friend Shruty sitting on the steps of Shree Ram mandir
Siblings Sarita and Sunil and their friend Shruty sitting on the steps of Shree Ram mandir
Betrawati, 2000
Close up on the children, with Sarita on the left, Shruty on the right, and Sunil sitting behind
Mona, Sanjana, Santoshi, Sushma, Bijay, Santosh, Sunil, Aakuj, Kalpana, Rajkumar, Bishal, Aanchal, Sita, Rahul, Shree Krishna, Ram, and Kanchi
Mona, Sanjana, Santoshi, Sushma, Bijay, Santosh, Sunil, Aakuj, Kalpana, Rajkumar, Bishal, Aanchal, Sita, Rahul, Shree Krishna, Ram, and Kanchi
Betrawati, 2000
Close up of Mona
Close up of Sanjana
Close up of Santoshi
Close up of Sushma
Close up of Bijay and Santosh (behind)
Close up of Sunil
Close up of Aakuj
Close up of Kalpana
Close up of Rajkumar (Rahul’s father)
Close up of Bishal
Close up of Aanchal
Close up of Sita
Close up of Shree Krishna
Close up of Rahul
Close up of Ram
Close up of Kanchi (Rahul’s mother)
Sunil, Sushma and Sanjana sitting on the steps
Sunil, Sushma and Sanjana sitting on the steps
Betrawati, October 2000
Closer up
Five children sitting in the shade of a covered porch
Five children sitting in the shade of a covered porch
(including Shree Krishna, Santoshi, Sushma, and Sunil)
Betrawati, October 25th, 2000
Closer up
From left to right on top of the wall:
Jiten (Sarmila’s brother), Sonam (Nishani’s older brother), Nishani, Deepinti (Nishani’s older sister), Dinesh (Sarmila’s “cousin brother”), Sarmila, Dipika (Nishani’s eldest sister), Yamuna (Nishani’s friend),
and Sunil (Sarmila’s “cousin brother”) on the ground in front.
(Thanks to Nishani for providing all the names!)
Group of children standing on and by a short rock wall
Group of children standing on and by a short rock wall
Betrawati, 2000
Sunil on a bench by the bus stop
Sunil on a bench by the bus stop
Betrawati, November 2002
Sunil and Mahesh at a small shop
Sunil and Mahesh at a small shop
Betrawati, November 2002
Sunil shares a bench
Sunil shares a bench
Betrawati, 2002
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Sunil at his families fruit stand
Sunil at his families fruit stand
Naya Bazaar Marg, Kathmandu, 2011
I would walk past this shop—one of many set up along the busy thoroughfare Naya Bazaar Marg—every day on my way to Balaju.
This long road is a constant stream of traffic: enormous lumbering TATA trucks, motorcycles, buses with thunderous horns, vans with passengers packed like gum balls, tempos with little puttering engines, bicycles loaded down with long bending lengths of re-bar, men, women, and children in school uniforms dodging puddles.
Large colorful posters for the latest Bollywood and Kollywood films are displayed on free walls. I happened to see some posters being wheat-pasted up one day; a pair of boys, one with a ladder, the other with a large bucket and a brush so rigid from the glue that the bristles had curved over like a hook.
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(I believe you can see Sunil wearing a red top in this panorama of Naya Bazaar Marg—he's basically under the "A" in "MANIA" on the big red billboard)
P.S. — The first Nepali movie I saw was called Dharmaputra and starred Rajesh Hamal, colloquially known to children countrywide as "the hero of Nepal". The movie was about three hours long, with plenty of dancing, romance, and singing.
A month or so later, I picked up a videocassette of Star Wars in Kathmandu to show the children of my host family. About 30 minutes in, my bai [younger brother] turns to me, unimpressed, with his arms out and says, essentially, "What, no singing?"