My mother wants pictures everywhere

This is new for me.

My mother grew up in Tikapur, a small village in Nepal. She got married to my father when she was 19, having met him only once before. Her own father had made all the decisions.

At 19, she moved to Bombay to begin a new life, and slowly began to let go of parts of who she was.

The new neighbors, the shopkeepers, the bus conductors, a…