57-year-old Dhana Shahi of Kamalbazar Municipality-6 was looking for an excuse to lose her mind until a few years ago. After completing the housework, he was left with only emptiness during his free time. 3 sons-in-law and 2 daughters-in-law have entered India to work.

Women of Mangalsen using mobile phones. Photo: Menuka/Kantipur  

After the three grandchildren of the house go to school, there is no one to gossip with them . At this time, he has a friend, a mobile phone sent by his daughter from India.

Dhana doesn't even know how to write her name. He has no choice but to sign somewhere. But he has no skills to use a mobile phone. Dhana, who has become lonely after the death of her husband 10 years ago, feels that if she is alone, things play in her mind . If it is mobile, the mind will forget about it .

5 years ago, when he got the mobile phone sent by his daughter, he was worried about how to use it. I was afraid that it would fall somewhere. In the early days, after being taught by her grandchildren, she became accustomed to using mobile phones . Dhana said, 'I watch YouTube, Facebook, Tik Tok. You don't know the day has passed by looking at it.' 

After being mobile, Dhana feels like the whole world is with him  It seems . After watching many videos on YouTube and Facebook, he started to feel that there are no more sad people like him in the world. She said, 'It seems like a story of her own.'

As she does not know the alphabet, she makes phone and video calls by looking at the pictures of her relatives saved by her grandchildren in the call log. She says, 'Even children who are far away seem to be together . Sometimes I am surprised that such a time has come.'  

The story of Mansara Nepali, 62, of Mangalsen municipality-7 is similar to that of Dhana. For two years, his fingers have been accustomed to the screen of Android mobiles . His sons and daughters are all from India. At home, she is looking after her two grandchildren . After the death of her husband 7 years ago, she is lonely. After his son and daughter-in-law went abroad, the farm next to his house is barren. After her grandchildren went to school, she felt that the house was ruled by emptiness. Now this mobile phone has become her friend.

Internet doesn't work well in his village . In the afternoon, she goes to the office of Ward No. 7. Nepal Telecom's network works well there. 'I am not even going to put money in the mobile . Son-daughter-in-law from Bombay. I would like to get the monthly data pack from those who have read it. I will come to the place where the net is running and see . I watch the downloaded video at night,' she said with a laugh. Being mobile with

makes him feel like the world is with him. It seems that everyone knows the news of the country and the world. But the fact that the net is not properly set in his village makes him bored . That is why, as soon as she meets the people's representatives or other stakeholders, she complains that the net is not working in the village . She says, "How easy it would be if there was internet in the village." But no one listens to us.' 

77-year-old Mangal Bahadur Nepali of Mangalsen-7 spent the fertile time of his life working in India. Now his three sons have entered India in search of work following his footsteps. He is spending his old age at home.

He did not even know how to write his own name and used to write letters to people he had read while in India.  He used to send good news to his sons. He used to know the news of the house after months through letters. In those days, he would sometimes walk looking for someone to write letters to, sometimes looking for someone to read letters. He said, "When others wrote letters, they wrote in their own style." Who will cover the feeling of writing a letter? I liked to write down what was in my mind. But it was not possible.'