Hundreds of workers employed by the Kabul municipality cleaned the trashed and often fetid river running through the Afghan capital. (Jawad Jalali/AFP/Getty Images)
"No human being, nor any living thing, survives long under the eternal sky. The most beautiful women, the most learned men, even Mohammed, who heard Allah’s own voice, all did whither and die. All is temporary. The sky outlives everything. Even suffering."
—Bowa Johar