by Renu Thapa in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 29, 2023Shaindra Thapa hasn’t forgotten the day she heard the news of her husband’s passing in 1990 in a distant foreign land. Her husband, Shankar Thapa, was a British Gurkha soldier, an honourable calling for a Nepali, in the 1990s. Shankar’s death had left Shaindra a widow and their six-month-old son without a father. Deprived of the means of living, Shaindra was solely dependent on her husband’s…