Age has cut it. Only one year left to reach 60. Even at this age, if you don't work every day, you can't get food. Everything must be bought. Rice, vegetables, pulses, salt, oil etc. are all bought and eaten. Need money to buy. There is no other way to earn money. It's always the same hands and arms. How long will they support Khoi?

Many things play in the mind. It seems that if there was little land, food grains could be grown. We don't even dream of buying land. I think that if I had a little money, I would have been able to rent the land and start farming. There was no money for that.

I am the youngest son of my father Mangal Majhi and mother Asha Majhi. We are also called Majhi and Musahar. Our ancestral home is in Simra-Jitpur of Bara. When I was five years old, my mother took us and started living in Majhi Musahar Basti, east of Malpur village in Sauraha district of Chitwan. Majhi Musahar is a community of fishermen, boatmen, and river-related work. But until our time, this kind of work is very less.

Even in Jitpur, we didn't have our own farm . It didn't happen in Chitwan either . The organization bought the land for us and built a house for us. Now we are in the East-South Ratnanagar Municipality-7 Sisuwar a little further than the old place . Rotary Club has brought 26 houses from the old settlement and built them here. Here too we are staying in the house built by the same organization. There is no empty land anywhere else than the house . There is no place to eat vegetables and chutney, vegetables, coriander, mint. All must be bought from the shop .

I work as a hard working mason. The daily wage is Rs. But it doesn't always work . Two-four months of dry season will be completely empty . That works for seven to eight months. If you can work 20/22 days in a month, you should be blessed. If not, you will get work for 15 days. If you work with a contractor, the need for work will not be that much . But the money is not received at the time . It is also very difficult to get your money . Some people don't even give . That's why I look for work myself, even if someone comes looking for me, I will go . How many jobs will you get in this way?

I was about 15 years old, my mother married Basanti. His wife at that time also passed away after 18 years. Again I married a Nepali Majhi . My sister-in-law belongs to Nepali family. Her husband also passed away. Because we got married in the time of sorrow, there is a lot of love between us . There is also general advice about the behavior of the house . Let's go to earn both together . There is advice on how to get a loan when expenses are not enough, where to go and with whom to get a loan. Can't eat without debt . You should look for a loan especially for food during the dry season.

Four years ago, my wife and I also did cleaning work. From the park's ticket counter to the Sauraha Rapti bank, the area around the dam should have been cleaned . We used to get up at four o'clock in the morning. Worked till 11 o'clock some day . Plastics, bottles and other garbage thrown by tourists had to be cleaned all night. In the first year, two people were given 10,000 rupees per month. 15 thousand rupees in the second year. If you don't have to work in the third year. That money was a big base for us to run our expenses .

After doing that in the morning, he could also go to the mason's job in the afternoon . But what happened, we lost what we were doing . The Nepalese bought a goat with the money from working there. Now there are five small goats in the cage. We sold four. Rs 50,000 was earned by selling four goats. I earn 15/20 thousand in a month from my work . If there is no work to do, I go to work as a wage laborer in agriculture. Nowadays farmers from Madhesh come to Chitwan. Started using the machine . 

There is no saving after having to buy food. I have a son and a daughter from my elder wife . I didn't have children when I was younger. First was his . My children got married. Son lives separately . Eating at home means we are only old people . But grandchildren come . 60 kg of rice per month is not enough. I am a blood pressure patient. Have high blood pressure . I am under pressure. 

Again, working on cement causes 'allergy' on the skin . Even now, there are spots like herpes. One day, not being able to even eat rice will cause sores all over the hand . I used to inject at this time . It is also spent on its treatment. Because of the hard work, we have to eat fish and meat from time to time, and we do. Money has been spent on this . Failed to save . How much is the income and saving? Instead there is a loan . It was brought by paying in installments from microfinance. 30 thousand rupees is still owed. 

My younger wife Nepali also has children from her first husband . We all gather during the festival. The story of our village near Sauraha seems strange. Millions of tourists from the country and abroad come to visit Sauraha, but we are still able to eat. We celebrate Pitru Aunsi . It falls on the last day of Sohrashraddha . We all gather on that day . We also accept Dashain and Tihar . We also enjoy the Phagu festival. The festival had to be accepted. Money cannot be spent on other big desires except celebrating the festival and burning the stove and covering the fire.

I think that if I had some money, I would have been able to rent the land and cultivate it. Land can be rented at the rate of two thousand rupees per year for one kattha. If there were 10/20 thousand rupees, the cost of dal, rice, bhutun could be saved by renting five/10 acres of land and planting paddy, mustard, lentils. But there is no money to rent the land . He is also trying to raise ducks and chickens. After 22 chickens died at once, the guts were lost . There is strength in life even if it is a little bit, the work has been done, the food has been done . I wonder what will happen if I can't.