Rukmani with little Sudan, Rajendra, Sushmita and Saraswati, and little Rasmita in the background
Betrawati, May 2005

Siblings Sarita and Sunil and their friend Shruty sitting on the steps of Shree Ram mandir
Betrawati, 2000

Close up on the children, with **Sarita** on the left, **Shruty** on the right, and **Sunil** sitting behind

Siblings Umesh and Sarita sitting on their porch
Betrawati, October 2000

Archana with her two daughters, Nishani and Deepinti, two cousins Rasmita and Sushil, and their dog Dhoma
Betrawati, October 2000

Closer up. From left to right cousin Rasmeta, cousin Sushil, younger daughter Nishani, mother Archana, and elder daughter Deepinti (and Dhoma the dog)

Siblings Bikram and Sirjana
Betrawati, October 2000

Siblings Sanu and Arun swinging
Betrawati, 2000

Siblings Sarita and Bibek, near the footbridge
Betrawati, October 2000

Siblings Sonu and Roshan
Betrawati, May 25th 2005

Siblings Deepika and Deepak
Betrawati, May 25th 2005

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.