”This is a mobile in the name of property”

After the landslide swept away the place where we lived, he is wandering around looking for land

Chaitra 13, 2081

Thakura Prasad Ghimire

”This is a mobile in the name of property”

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I am really a squatter. There is no land in the name of family members. As there was no place to take shelter, I stayed in the loft of Bhagirath Bhattarai's house in the village. We were born in Nangkhalyang. Babubaje also spent his life there. We were staying there on the land of Gautam.

God didn't like peace, maybe the landslide washed away the place where we were staying. After that, he is wandering around looking for land. I am 57 years old . Silo brother and I went to Fengling municipality looking for a way to live. Here we are raising our family by working as wage earners. My elder son and younger daughter studied till 12th standard . The eldest son sat in Mawli and studied. My daughter is also sitting in Jhapa and studying. 

The eldest son went to Saudi Arabia three months ago . The younger one is studying Sanskrit with Sanima in India . Assets are three children and this is a mobile phone. The son gave this mobile phone to his daughter when he went abroad. After her daughter sent her here, it has become a meeting to talk . We are husband and wife wage earners . Everyday work is not available. There are jobs like cutting firewood, cutting straw, picking cardamom, spitting amriso . I get five hundred a day . The wife gets three hundred . 

Until a year ago, on the 13th day of the death of a Brahmin, they used to call to take Shayadan . At that time, they used to give rice, utensils, bed sheets and four to five hundred rupees. It used to do it . Now many others have left and stopped calling. Rice, salt, bread, soap, marmalade should be bought in bulk. We plant the vegetables ourselves. Don't buy that . We have cultivated in the dark. But farming does not give much benefit . I cannot plow myself due to health . Jotara and single-hull bulls should be paid Rs. 1400 per day. We have to farm with the income of the farm.

Mohiyani does not allow them to stay in one place for many years because they demand rights. There is a lot of land to earn in the place where you live now . Most of the land is barren. But the monkey cannot cry. In the blink of an eye, the crop will be destroyed . Son has taken a loan while going abroad. But I had neither to give nor to ask. Mavali, the sons of the great father have sent with money . After paying the loan, they are thinking that they will send us there too . As you get older, the disease will start to spread . Now, if you get a big disease, there is no way to treat it . So far I am going to the health center . They are giving free medicine . So there is not much cost in medicine. 

This time I slept for 15 days with chest pain. I was cured by injecting the health post. First, cows were reared and milk was sold a little. But it was not sustainable due to lack of certainty of living place . I have planned to bring it again and adopt it . Time is expensive. 400 rupees can be spent on going to Budhabudhi Bazaar (Sadarmukam) and returning. Everyone else gets in the car, we find it difficult to even walk slowly . There is also shame. No money was earned, no debt was incurred. But now I started to worry. People are not called to work because they can't work . If you fall sick and go to bed, you won't even have rice to eat. There is also concern about where to live if the creditor evicts. 

There is concern that children will watch and not watch. The son went to earn. The daughter of the family should get married. No money . I think that both of them would have got a job worth at least a thousand rupees a day . But such work is not available in the village. We also pound gravel, make beds, we do all the household work of cutting firewood, carrying manure, but there is a problem when we do not get sustainable work . Those who work again do not give money. 

Presentation: Anand Gautam

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