Date: 1973-12 Location: Bharatpur, Chitwan Description: Teaching staff at Chitwan High School, at school registration day, with some students in the foreground. Standing, ninth from left is former Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Ranson, wearing a very small blue topi; to the right is Headmaster Bhishma Kanta (with topi and jacket, and brown shirt underneath.) By 1973 the long time custom of men and boys wearing the traditional Nepali topi was already fading.
