Worry: A traveling family I met at Vajra Hotel. The disshevelled mother was tending to a 3-month old, and the whole family’s belongings dumped on the steps. (Family of 5, I saw a man and 2 other boys at the lobby)
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Begam Shakya, 3, sits at the wheels of the gigantic chariot of the rain deity, Rato Machhindranath. Every year, the red-faced idol is paraded throughout Patan, and devotees bring rice, flowers and sweets to offer to the deity to pray for good monsoons, abundant harvests and blessings. Scavengers like Begam who cannot afford to buy rice, wait for the devotees’ charity, or simply catch the occasional showers of rice coming from the priests sitting atop the chariot.
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I was back in Nepal. Back to 12 hours of load shedding. Just came back from Photo.Circle, feeling a little energized, and wondering what a Kathmandu night would look like, with lights. Maybe something like this.
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Children huddle around a bonfire made from burning paper and sticks, as winter draws to a close. Bishalnagar. Kathmandu. 2010/02/23.
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Banda Station, Uttar Pradesh, India. Cows are said to lead a better life than most Indians.
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Children look at the uncompleted effigy of the villain Ravana, the 10-headed king of Lanka, who plays a key role in kidnapping Rama’s wife Sita in the Hindu epic Ramayana. Childhood bogeymen are reinforced by superstition among the adults. Dhangadhi, southwest Nepal.
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This gigantic pig, which was enjoying its mud bath, weighs about 200 kg, and is the pride of a family I visited in Dhangadhi.
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“Thakur Prasad Chaudhary, 16, eats while his mother watches. The village boy from Bauniya VDC in Dhangadhi travels to Haridwar in Uttarakhand in India to be a mason. Thakur has been building bridges for the last 8 months, and will return to work very soon after the Dasain festival ends. The eldest of 3 children, Thakur was pulled out of Class 5 to replace his sister as a kaimaya because she had ran away. After the year-long contract ended, Thakur had no more interest in school and was compelled to find work in India to support his family.” This was part of my failed attempt to do a story on migrant labour.
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Huge billboards warning about the consequences of exposed corruption. Unfortunately, in Nepal, corruption is culture, and not necessarily a crime, unless you cross the wrong guys.
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Its rather scary when one thinks how many lives are influenced by glitzy Bollywood - the make-belief lives of song and dance, of poor-made-good. Perhaps, the further away you are from an ideal, the more beautiful one’s fantasies are.
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