In a village close to the transboundary Mahakali river, a pregnant woman awaits news of remittance from her husband working abroad Credit: Minket Lepcha

Shiva and Parvati are epitomised in Hinduism as the joint protectors of the Himalayas. But men are conspicuously absent from the villages and towns on the banks of the Mahakali – the transboundary river that marks the western border of Nepal with India.

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