Shrestha’s eldest daughter Minaruwa and her best friend Vidya at Purna Studio in Patan. They are wearing the uniforms of the Scouts, which had just been introduced in a few schools in the capital. The women in the photo remain close friends even today.
Theme: Photographs of Friendship
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Although he visited the house in Jhonchhen often, Shrestha says that he was never very close with the girls, at least not as close as he was with Kedar: it would not have been appropriate. Still, they let him photograph them, and so the memory of the visits remains.
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Although these picnics were one of the few ways in which groups of the more privileged people from Kathmandu could socialize beyond festivals, it was very rare that women went on picnics on their own or with their friends. In fact, Shrestha remembers fondly some picnics that he went on with his friend Kedar. But, he notes, it was not customary for the women around him to go on picnics.