As Urvashi Butalia aptly summarises, in her book chapter published in From Gender to Nation – in all wars as opposing forces enter villages and towns, the men run away while the women stay, fully aware that “they might be raped and violated – but they stay, trying to protect their children, trying to save the old and inform, trying to keep the home and hearth intact…who are the real nation makers here, the men who run away or the women who stay?” Limbu and Jha are based at Martin Chautari