"I am a 30-year-old Faguni Sada. I am not doing much these days. I used to labor for wages. Sometimes in the fields and sometimes building houses, carrying bricks and mixing cement and sand. I prefer mixing sand and cement to carrying bricks. The load is not heavy and it is safer. Carrying the load of bricks is difficult and if it falls, I could hurt myself. But since the lockdown, not much is going on.
My house is right on the border. I am from the Musahar community. The entire community here lives at the border. They say that where we live is the ten-yards-land between two border points. But that did not matter to us from the very beginning of time. We live where land is available with endless worries of raising our children. Years ago many of the homes of our families were destroyed by the border patrol from the other side. I was in a foreign country when that happened. But now we have reconstructed our homes again and slowly started to settle again. Now our hut is on this side of the pillar. The border pillars are also bigger in size now but that does not affect us. We are carrying on with our lives.
I am not married. I need some money for that. And I already have mother, father, brother, and sister at home to look after. When this corona ends, I will go to a foreign country again. What will I do? There is no place like home but I need to go earn money. Home is the same for the rich and it's the same for the poor."
Faguni Sada, Manara Siswa 9, Mahottari
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