Anil Nakarmi was in the middle of a conversation with his friends when I spotted him in a shelter in Basantapur. The 44-year-old Sindhupalchowk native works as a rickshaw puller. He heads a family of that consists of his spouse, and four daughters. He says he first set foot in Kathmandu 22 years back. In the beginning, he made his living washing dishes. Later, he worked as a mason.
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The memory of his contractor cheating him, paying less than what he was supposed to be paid, still enrages Nakarmi. However, he is quite content with his current earnings. Moreover, he has also been sending a portion of his savings to his mother back home in Sindhupalchowk.
He says, “I have been pulling carts for nine months,” and continued, “I have four daughters. We live in a society where we are taught that daughters are married off to start a new life elsewhere. But at present, I see daughters taking care of their parents. I wish the same for me and my wife. Our four daughters are the four pillars of our old age. ”
