Senior citizens claiming to be satisfied in care homes should be seen as a survival strategy rather than a badge of admiration.

This time, let us vote for what we want rather than what everybody else expects us to want.

I met Dilmaya in 1973 in her village in Gulmi. With a twinkle in her eye, her first words to me were “Pant lauda laj hunna?” In the many intimate chitchats that followed,