My Shelter

A sadhu keeping his body warm peeps outside from the temple after rainfall, at Pushupatinath Temple premises on wednesday Feb 14,2007. Due to cold and rainfall in the valley, sadhus who had gathered from different parts of the country and also across from India to celebrate Maha-Shivaratri faced problems for proper shelters..

Nepal Terai Un-rest

A man crosses the street during the second day of a twelve hour curfew at Birgunj, 250 km. south of Nepal’s capital on Friday, Jan. 26, 2007. More than Seventeen have lost their lives and thousands of people are being injured due to protest on major parts of the Terai region of Nepal. Madhesi Janaadhikar Forum (Madhesi People’s Rights Forum) or MJF or MPRF, led by former Maoist leader Upendra Yadav, has led the movement. The key demands of the MJF were to have a federal government structure with autonomy and a proportional election system based on density of caste and ethnicity. More Picutres Inside…….

“World Press Photo of the Year-2006″

World Press Photo jury chair Michele McNally describes the winning image: “It’s a picture you can keep looking at. It has the complexity and contradiction of real life, amidst chaos. This photograph makes you look beyond the obvious.”