“I am happy to meet my father after so many years. I thought he was dead long ago,” she said. Lok Bahadur had left home to work in India without even informing his family members—wife Kaushilya and six daughters—and was working as a labourer in Simla, India. The family members, who neither received letters nor any phone calls from him for so many years, had lost their hope of finding him again and even performed his last rites believing him to be dead. 

 

Lok Bahadur was sent back home by the Indian police in cooperation with Akhil Bharat Nepali Ekata Manch, an organisation of Nepali people living in India, after he was found helpless at a hospital one and a half months ago. He was treating his broken leg. The organisation also donated Rs 28,800 to Lok Bahadur. 

 

Lok Bahadur, now at a Nepalgunj-based hospital regrets to have not kept in touch with his family. “I am happy to be with my family members finally,” he said. His daughter Sangita is looking after him in the hospital.