Odhar’s residence for a year

Myagdi, 21 Feb: Every day, hundreds of vehicles and people pass through the roads and footpaths of Kurilakhark in Ward No. 7 of Beni Municipality. 50-year-old Rahul Vick of Beni-5 Bhirmuni has been taking shelter in the Odhar on the side of the same road for a year. He said that he had to live in odhar after the death of his sons, his wife’s second marriage and his relatives found him. “I worked in India for 35 years as long as I had strength and age”, he said. After I started hunting, I left home and started living in odhar.

Rahul has been searching for roots and making a daily living from the food he has brought. Odhar is at a distance of about one kilometer from Beni market. He sleeps on a small bed on the side of the road with torn clothes. Rahul is unable to work due to physical weakness, can speak and communicate. “It’s been a year since Rahul Vick started living in odhar attached to my buffalo farm,” said Sures Dhungana of Kurilakhark, “He can’t work.” he said it’s fine for him to stay in that odhar.” Rahul, who is making vegetables by plucking the lamb from the rough side of the stone, goes down to the market to ask for more food. Even though the sun shines during the day, the cold air penetrates directly into the roof at night.

We have to protect the food collected by begging him from the monkeys. There is even fear of leopards at night. Jyoti Lamichhane, deputy head of Beni Municipality, who is also a resident of Kurilakhark, said that even though they tried to send Rahul home from odhar, he refused. “As soon as he saw that he was sitting in odar, he started a search policy”, he said, “There is no place to go to the end, He did not agree to go anywhere from here.”