The Rijal family
The Rijal family
Betrawati, 2005
Manisha, Nisha and Karisha and their family
Manisha, Nisha and Karisha and their family
Betrawati, June 2011
amma (mother) Naradevi, babu (little boy) Arick (26 months), bua (father) Govinda, and bahini Bhumika
The Bhujul family in their shop along Naya Bazaar Marg
The Bhujul family in their shop along Naya Bazaar Marg
Naya Bazaar Marg, Kathmandu, July 15th, 2020
(from left to right, back to front)
aama Bidhya with yellow scarf, chhori Bibhuti, cousin Shuvani, neighbor Pramisha in pink,
aunt Ganga in green, and Bibhuti’s paternal grandparents Arjun and Januka
Bubhuti’s family
Bubhuti’s family
Balaju, Kathmandu, July 16th, 2020
Pratima, Annapurna, and Asha: two daughters with their mother
Pratima, Annapurna, and Asha: two daughters with their mother
Dhitalthok, Kathmandu, September 5th, 2018
Rukmani and her family
Rukmani and her family
Betrawati, late-2002
Rukmani (seated, in front of her father) was one of my students at Uttergaya Secondary English Boarding School.
In this photo, she’s sitting in front of her home with her family.
(although her older brother Rajendra must’ve been off playing somewhere)
They appear to be making bowls out of leaves for a festival (perhaps Dashain).
I love the little namaste that her little brother Khancha is giving—so sweet.
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Rukmani
Betrawati, late-2002
Asmi and Ramdevi, bohini and didi
Asmi and Ramdevi, bohini and didi
Kathmandu, June 18th, 2011
I stopped by a house where I had taken a family photo in the past. While Ramdevi (above in red) filled me in on some of the names that I hadn't gotten those many years ago, she herself is not in the older photo (which can be seen below).
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Asmi and Ramdevi’s family, back in 2005 (or 2003). I believe that is Asmi in the pink.
Babu in a shop
Babu in a shop
Kathmandu, May 2011
Each day I pass this small shop, a storefront built much like a garage—complete with a metal shutter to draw down at closing. This day, the shopkeepers son [babu means young boy] stands on the counter and we exchange spirited hellos.
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Sisti
Sisti
Betrawati, 2000 or 2002
Sitting on a bag of rice on top of a full TATA bus, I passed a building where Sisti bahini was looking out the second-story doorway.
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Sisti with her brother and mother.
I believe that Sisti’s family runs a fabric shop in town, just south of the bridge.
2000
Family on the porch
Family on the porch
Manamaiju, Kathmandu, May 2011
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