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Written by Aji’s Maker Shiro Moktan
It was but natural to know the Lord’s prayer and the Hail Mary when for fourteen years the nuns in school and college made it your life support. It was just as natural to sit cross legged for hours and pretend to meditate and look pious when you are born into a Buddhist family where regular gatherings of monks and chants and smoke and prayer wheels happened on a weekly basis.
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“Lockdown”…a word that I do not think has ever been met with such a multitude of emotions. A word which millions are having to deal with and in helplessness, frustration, fear and hope. So how are we doing?
Read MoreChinese money plant on the left accompanied by the spider plant sitting in a Dori Plant Hanger made by Shiro.
Written by 67 year old Shiro Moktan, maker of Dori Plant Hanger
I have a long and ardent love affair with plants. The excitement and sense of fulfillment on discovering a new leaf or a bud is incomparable. Fill your house with plants and you will never regret it. I am no horticulturist but I am an expert on how plants touch our lives emotionally and spreads overall happiness.
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What does it mean to be a woman over fifty years years old in Nepal. Does the greying hair and wrinkles on her face mean the beginning of the end of her life or is it the beginning of a new life?
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Shiro Moktan with her granddaughter Tanieshaa Shrestha
Written by Aji’s Maker Shiro Moktan
Change is the only constant in life. Global changes are too big an issue to be talked about. I am affected by what is closer to home. The changes in Nepali women. Women of my time were strong, brave and intelligent. There were struggles to be faced on a day to day basis as there is today. Women were challenged physically, emotionally and psychologically and it is the same today. What changed?
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