Pawan ThapaUntil some time ago, it was said to the villagers that there is a boundary line around the village. If any outsider enters through that boundary, he has to live as his slave with the route for the rest of his life.

Because of the many positive and negative myths about the Routes, people from the outside community were afraid to mix with the Routes, at times. Now time has changed, understanding has changed. Now people from different communities have got along with the routes and have become dear friends of the visitors - the routes.  

Now Raute's settlement is in the forest near Ranighat in Surkhet. There are settlements on flat land near the river - one hundred and thirty four routes. Men 61, women 73. 43 trees built on the banks of the river have protected him from winter.

routes wake up with the morning light. As soon as they wake up, women go to the kitchen to get water. However, men start making koshi and honey. Some enter the forest in search of firewood.

Mukhya Suryanarayan, Bir Bahadur and the new generation who are enjoying the lap of nature, Ghazlu, Yaman and Dika, this community is not only facing increasing marketization, they are also facing to protect the endangered civilization. From making tiktok to tourist guides and film units come to Rutebasti. 

Route communities who keep moving settlements consider the place where relatives die as inauspicious and move the settlement immediately. Dhan Bahadur Sahi Mukhia, who also advises the Mukhia, says, "If any member dies in the place where he is sitting, we immediately move the settlement from that inauspicious place. Sometimes the place is dirty after sitting for a long time. Even then we will move.'

Many young people say they are not interested in migration. A well-known memory on social media says, "If the old routes agree, they want to build a solid house and live in one place." Ghazlu adds, "If it were up to me, I would have sent the younger routes to school to tell them to return home in the evening."  Ghazlu says that in the Raute community, where the beggars marry, there are also love marriages. It is forbidden to marry outside the community, but here marrying with two other surnames is allowed. Bir Bahadur Mukhia says, 'His daughters do not marry outsiders. If Gaiha, we will not let him come back. If someone takes it by force, we will bring it back.' 

This community that does not keep animals has now started raising chickens. This community, who likes to eat meat, is now too lazy to hunt monkeys and brings boiler chicken meat from the market. Routes who do not count their community are afraid of the sky. Deuta also gives advice in Khamchi language to Dhan Bahadur Shahi Tanneri Raute, the head of the Mukhiya, who believes that all actions are seen from the sky.

As in the outer community, patriarchy dominates here. Although there are more than men in terms of numbers, the women here have never been leaders and they cannot be. Routes say, "Routes have no home, women have no caste."