Nepal

Since primary school days, I had known Nepal as a neighbouring country. Years later, I came to know I could visit Nepal without a visa – even crossing the border almost unnoticed. And it wasn’t hard to make a decision to visit soon thereafter.

Before my first visit in 2017, Nepal had been through a massive earthquake in 2015, a decade-long civil war, and an era of political instability. One of the world’s most dangerous roads and airport, crime, mugging incidents, to avoid travelling alone – these were some of the things I had read before and during my first visit.

During that first, just a month-long visit, I had not known this land would call me back again and again. In the following years, Nepal became my true कर्मभुमि where I spent months at times, including the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. In recent years, I have attended a shaman festival at Gosaikunda lake, Indra Jatra in Kathmandu, rice planting festival more than once, and many weddings in Nepal.

For teaching me patience, helping me become confident, further extending my interest in photography, and rewarding me with great experiences, Nepal remains special. This album is an effort to showcase the beauty of the land where I feel at home.

Years: 2017 – Ongoing

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A shaman poses for a picture by the Gosainkunda lake during Nepal's annual shaman festival
A shaman on her way to Trishul Dhara
A young woman looks at the camera as she observes the shamans performing rituals
A shaman sprinkling holy water collected in a decorated metal jug at Trishul Dhara
Shamans sing and play ‘dhyangro’ shamanic drum
A young shaman looks at the camera as he participates in shaman festival at Trishul Dhara
A man working at DDC cheese production centre, Sing Gompa
Devotees on their way to Gosaikunda riding on ponies
Into the oblivion
Fog approaching Gosaikunda lake
A sadhu in yellow looks at the camera
A farmer sings and dances during the rice planting festival
A Farmer Plowing A Rice Field with Bullocks in Begnas Village of Nepal
Shy Laxmi tries to hold back her laughter
July 2021, Pokhara, Nepal: A sculpture artist working inside his shop
A young Nepali girl wearing festive clothes poses for a picture
Husband and wife at their shop
An elderly woman photographed listening to a radio in Pokhara
A Young Girl Riding Bicycle in Bardiya Village
An Elderly Woman in Bardiya
A man smoking in Bhaktapur, Nepal
July 2021, Pokhara, Nepal: An elderly man reads a newspaper inside a shop as news plays on a radio with makeshift antenna
A group of women singing religious songs outside a temple in Kathmandu Durbar Square
A woman part of a group that's singing religious songs outside a temple
A female dancer hired to perform at a wedding dances with a guest.
A man sitting near a chariot during a religious ceremony at Kathmanudu Durbar Square
A man standing near a chariot during a religion ceremony at Kathmandu Durbar Square
A young boy sitting between wheels of a giant chariot at Kathmandu Durbar Square
A group of kids during a ceremony in Bhaktapur, Nepal
A man walking away with water buckets after washing them by riverside. Pokhara, Nepal
An elderly woman in traditional getup
A woman in with traditional moon and star accessories
A man sitting outside his house, Bardiya village, Nepal.
Portrait of a Nepali woman in Pokhara
A Woman in Pokhara Nepal
Portrait of an Indian Sikh man in Nepal
Three siblings photographed at a wedding in Nepal.