The family are poorly dressed. Their home is built from piled stone, wood and a metal roof. A distant view of hills and farm buildings is obscured by low clouds.

August 2007 – meeting the people of Malagiri for the first time

We are driving on the Rajpath Road in Nepal. This road used to be the main gateway between India and Nepal and now, since the construction of other highways, this road is no longer very busy and is rarely visited by tourists. The views and countryside are magnificent – the steeply sloped hills are lush with vegetation and natural wooded areas. Scattered amongst the greenery…