Rabina
Rabina
Manamaiju, Kathmandu, Monday, October 12th, 2015
With a twelve-year-old photo (seen below) in hand, I went looking to see if I could find Sabina or Debika.
From the details of the old photo, I knew that the building they sat in front of in 2003 was now gone. We asked at a small shop, showing the photo, and were told to go down to the furniture shop.
Down the way a bit, under a blue tarp, a man worked with a chisel on lengths of wood, creating tenon joints. We showed him the photo and he motioned to a small room-sized building a stone’s throw away made from corrugated metal. Someone under the tarp called "Oh, Rabina bahini" and a moment later, Sabina’s younger sister Rabina came out and greeted us.
She loved seeing the photo of her older sister—younger in the photo than Rabina is now. She let us know that Sabina was fine, but that she lived in a different part of Kathmandu now. I was struck with how much Rabina looked like her didi [older sister].
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Rabina and her mother Sanu.