73-year-old Mohammed Bacha is from Sitapur in Sunsari, the former home of Muslims. He came to Morang for labor at a young age and started driving a rickshaw in Biratnagar from the age of 13. He has been driving rickshaws for 60 years and is also known as the oldest rickshaw puller of Biratnagar. Even in their old age, they can reach Biratnagar airport in the morning by taking a rickshaw.

Biratnagar has only one 'pedal' rickshaws that can be counted on the fingers. Now the city rickshaw has almost replaced the 'Paidal' rickshaw. However, Mohammed Bacha is making a living by playing with city rickshaws and eating 'pedal'. 

He had just started driving a rickshaw when the old airport at Jatuwa in Biratnagar came into operation. At the end of the 1960s, when the airport moved to Kanchanbari, his race also moved there.

At that time the rickshaw fare was – from a minimum of four annas to a maximum of eight annas. The rent of Kanchanbari-Mahendra Chowk was four annas. Jogbani is also four annas from Mahendra Chowk. He used to charge eight annas for taking passengers to the airport. 

Whether it was the skin-searing incense or the heart-shaking smell, he used to go back and forth carrying passengers from Airport, Jogbani, Mahendra Chowk, Devkota Chowk, Pokharia, Varagachi, dripping with sweat. "I used to earn 5/7 rupees by driving a rickshaw all day long," he remembers, "with that income I had to pay the rent of the rickshaw to the moneylender and also run the family." This village has 75 households of Muslim community.

He left Varagachi about 20 years ago and chose this place. Ailani has two small trees on a barren land. In the bush on the west side lives the child and his wife Maimul Khatun. There is their bedroom, kitchen. There is also a cow shed. His son and daughter-in-law live in the bush on the east side. During the rainy season, the flood of the Kesalia river submerges the entire village. "In winter, you can stay as much as possible, but it is difficult to save the house in the rainy season," he says.