Bikesh Deshar

 I have been doing “Behind Brick Industry” photo essay since 2012. It is my sixth year in a row photographing people and their life in brick industry. This year, I have focused their hard work as a theme. So, how their hard work has influenced the making of our country? This is quite interesting question for everyone of us. People are not aware of their hard work and I decided to capture their painstaking work in the camera. As a travel photographer, I travel and visit the brick industries of my area most of the time. Visiting the brick industry always makes me sad. The situation is not good as we think of. There is no proper sanitation as people do toilet around the bushes, no proper water distribution and other facilities. But this year, I found distribution of electricity in all temporary huts. Now, children can read under the light. Handicapped man carrying bricks                        ...

Perched atop a hill on the western edge of the Kathmandu Valley, the ancient   Swayambunath Stupa   (known to tourists as the   Monkey Temple ) is  Kathmandu 's most important Buddhist shrine. The sleepy, all-seeing Buddha eyes that stare out from the top have become the quintessential symbol of Nepal. Swayambhu   (Devanagari : स्वयम्भू स्तूप ;  Newar :   स्वयंभू ; sometimes   Swoyambhu ) is an ancient religious architecture atop a hill in the  Kathmandu Valley , west of  Kathamndu   city. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees' (Wylie :   Phags.pa Shing.kun ), for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. However,   Shing.kun   may be a corruption of the local  Nepal Bhasa   name for the complex,   Singgu , meaning 'self-sprung'.   For the Buddhist  Newars   in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhu occupies a...