Barta Gandharva is a young songstress who plays the sarangi, sings and composes her own music. She is currently studying at the Music Nepal Sangeet Vidhyalaya in Kathmandu on scholarship.

Dilmaya Lama came to Kathmandu from Sindhupalchowk in search of a job more than 20 years ago. She found work picking and selling recyclable waste and raised her children in the vicinity of the Kathmandu waste transfer station in Teku. Her children are now grown and work at the same waste transfer station, along with her grandchildren.

Bhekha Maya Rajkarnikar, fondly known to her family as Pasley Maa, celebrated her 99th birthday and soon after passed away recently. She had a large family, scattered in the Kathmandu and global cosmopolitan landscape.

Inspector Basundhara Khadka with her newborn baby.

Students at the Jeeval Kalyan Kendra, a school for mentally and physically challenged children, are of varying abilities. One of the biggest challenges they face is the lack of expertise to diagnose their conditions. All children, whether they have down syndrome or whether they are just deaf, are brought here with the belief that they are 'abnormal' and left to learn the ABCDs. Some are adults now, but have nowhere else to go.

Television and theater actress Pooja Gurung.

A late night shift at one of Kathmandu's growing number of call centers.

Swimmer Nayana Shakya represented Nepal in the last Olympic games in Athens. She trains for the next qualifying games but received little support from the national level sports council.

A member of the Gurung community mourning for the loss of Dr. Harka Gurung, Nepali geographer, historian, planner, multi-disciplinary visionary who died in a showcking helicopter crash in September 2006.

Sujata Tuladhar returns home to Nepal from South Africa, Sri Lanka and New Zealand completing a tri-country community radio marathon.

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