" I don’t know my age but I am over 60. We were never sent to school and all I know is weaving and all the household work. In Those days daughters had to learn all the work before getting married. I am weaving Boko now and it’s for a man. In those days people would have Boko in the winter and now you have all the jackets and sweaters. Things changed so fast. Now new generation people don’t want to learn and all these skills will go with me when I die. In my days our mothers would teach us and if I said ‘no’ she would come up with stick to beat me. Now people are educated and they all do jobs but in those days almost all people would do farming and look after their family”.

Mensuwa Gurung