Gwaramari from Ason

Mim Das Balami from Tistung Palung, Makawanpur, lives in a rented room at Tangal chok, along with his wife Samjhana Balami and 5 years old son, Manav Balami. Mim’s day start early, at 4:30 by selling a local delicacy 'Gwara mari' at very heart of Kathmandu, Ason Chok. His wife Samjhana Balami helps him to run this small family business which they together started for past 6 and half years. Balami claims he can prepare almost all kind of local sweets and cookies.

Pasang Lama: Tea Maker

Home from Home: Pasang Lama has been selling tea in a portable stall at Basantapur, Kathmandu, for the past six years to eke out a living. The 27-years-old woman from Huseni, Kavre sells tea twice a day- from 5:30 in the morning and 4-8 in the evening. Initially, she uses to ply momo business with the support of her husband. After police banned roadside stalls inside the Basantapur area, a move aimed at protecting the Kathmandu Durbar Square, she had to shut up shop. She says selling momo is profitable than selling tea. Despite several ups and downs, she is happy with her present daily earning between Rs. 4m000 and Rs 5,000. The Happy-go-lucky lady is all smiles that she is not a busy bee, as her business allows her to take rest during daytime. She has many cool customers who regularly come to sip tea every morning. Pasang lives in a rented room near Basantapur with her husband and two daughters.

Optimist Thuli Tamang

Thuli Tamang 48yrs from Dashinkali sell Laligurans at Ason, Kathmandu on Sunday morning. 3 February 2013. She earns 400 hundreds, rupees selling a basket of Laligurnas (National flower of Nepal) which she plucks the day before from the forest of Dashainkali. Thuli Tamang is one among so many hardworking women of Nepal who believes in positive change in the country.

The Charles River, Waltham

The calmness of the Charles River has become a great attraction for me as a photographer to visit it often. This river known as River Charles or simply the Charles flows in an overall northeasterly direction in eastern Massachusetts. It stretches up to an 80 miles (129 Km) from its source in Hopkinton. Many recreational activities take place in the Charles, like rowing, sculling, dragon-boating, and sailing in different season of the year. And in winter it gets pretty calm.

Harmony

An old Chinese lady, feeds breads to feral pigeons near Woodside station, New York on a sunny morning. Many do not consider feeding feral pigeons a good idea because of nuisance it causes but still there are people in big cities like New York, who care to feed them for harmony.