Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Chris Thapa

  • The afterlife

    Chris ThapaPortland, Oregon, United States Hari Bahadur Adhikari was eighteen-years-old. Some men in city clothes had come to his village. They wanted him to be a laurey, working as a soldier for the British Army. Hari fell in love with the idea of making Nepal proud. But tradition had its say first: his parents wanted…