”I wake up early at 3 o'clock, I leave at 4 o'clock carrying baskets”

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”I wake up early at 3 o'clock, I leave at 4 o'clock carrying baskets”

It has become a habit to wake up at 3 in the morning and do the rest of the daily chores. Now I am 62 years old. After getting used to it, it is not difficult to get up even if you are old. I have been living in Narayangarh since 2032. My special home is in Siwan, Bihar, India.

Now the families of the children are all in India. Wife and I are living here . I have kept my wife with me because she is ill. People from Siwan used to come to Chitwan to work. After the village people came, my brother Ramkisun Prasad came to Chitwan two years before me.

Dai was running a small snack shop in Narayangarh Sahidchowk at that time . In Bihar, there was a shop that sold famous gram satuk sarvat, litti chokha, pakoda, aluchap and so on . My brother also called me. I initially came and started selling ice . Selling ice, I used to cross the Narayani on a bicycle and reach far away to the village of Nawalpur . Ramchandra Sahu's ice company was here at that time.

Now there is a big concrete house in Narayangadh. At that time, Dai was running a shop in a small shop at Sahid Chowk. I think the rent was about two hundred rupees. After selling ice for three years, I also helped my brother . After the

, the jupras started to become palaces. It was difficult for us to do business by having a shop in Sutter . I have five brothers, sons and one daughter. They have left the village and come abroad to raise and educate them. If some income is being made from here, where will you go now? I left the shop and took the basket .

It's been 20/30 years since I was about to walk in a cart. But later it became difficult to keep a basket in the market . The municipality started saying that it cannot be kept here. And thought of doing business early in the morning . Waking up in the morning is the vegetable market. Earlier there was a vegetable market at Lions Chowk in Bharatpur Oralo. Now Kshetrapur is . It's been five years, I went there .

Before Lions Chowk, I used to reach early. Eating satu syrup of chickpeas in summer is very beneficial. It is also good for the stomach and cools the soul. In winter, I also keep the famous Litti Chokha as Bihar's dish . But potatoes, dumplings, jerry are sold here. After opening my eyes at three o'clock, I do my work . I also do some exercise. And I leave with the basket . 

I am now camping in Kamalnagar of Narayangadh . Kshetrapur is a little far from here. We had to go out in the morning carrying a basket. I return to Dera around 11 o'clock. I am tired . There is nothing else to do . I will rest . Preparation for tomorrow should also be done . I make satu myself .

business is good to be ? The same general expenses are covered . Even if 50 glasses of satu syrup were sold in a day, the turnover would be between 2,000 and 2,500 rupees. A glass of satu sarvat costs up to 50 rupees. But now it is not selling so well . If 30/35 glasses are sold, the situation has come to be happy . What will you earn by trading so much? Had to pay the camp rent.

7/8 thousand rupees per month camp rent has to be paid . Had to eat, had to wear . How much is the savings? Again the wife is suffering from diabetes. I will buy him medicine . Seven/eight thousand rupees is spent on medicines.

sometimes save 8/10 thousand rupees a month . We have to be satisfied with this. It was necessary to earn when children were small. Now they are big . All the children got married. He has lived in a village in that country after completing his career.

Why am I here, let's work till the end, Why ask others for the money they need? The wife has a problem with her uterus . They say that an operation should be done. You have to save some money for this too . Other than that, Zenten is still running, if he had money, he could have treated his wife's uterus completely!

presentation : Ramesh Kumar Poudel 

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