Pariyar, whose name ironically means wealth, committed suicide after failing to manage money to feed his wife Gita and six children in the Dashain festival. Gita said her husband tried to buy meat on credit for Dashain festival but no one in the village trusted him. Two days before Tika, Pariyar sold his last remaining madal and bought a kilo of chicken meat and a bottle of local wine.[break]
He, along with his wife and children, ate a bit of chicken meat. The 50-year-old was found hanging from the ceiling of his room the next day. “He (Pariyar) was sad when no one gave him meat on credit for the Dashain festival,” said Narad Mani Poudel, former chairman of Ayodhyapuri VDC.
Gita used to make and sell stone-grinders to support her husband. In the Tihar festival, many villagers shall savor spicy pickles made on Gita´s stone-grinders. But, Gita is now a widow and in no mood to celebrate any festival. Pariyar had been living in a hut built on a public land in Ganeshkunja of Ayodhyapuri VDC for the last 15 years.
The VDC office and some locals provided Rs 11,000 for Pariyar´s postmortem and final rites. Gita said her husband would not have committed suicide had he managed to earn just Rs 1500 before Dashain.
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