Family finds home after leaving Kathmandu
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Bire and Sita, a family from Kathmandu, Nepal, left the city to rebuild their lives in Bire’s ancestral village of Timirkot after Bire lost his inheritance to gambling.
Bire struggled with daily labor in Kathmandu, falling back on old habits of gambling and drinking, but Sita encouraged him to change his ways and promised marriage only if he did. They married and had two daughters, but the small Kathmandu apartment felt too cramped for their growing family.
An old friend, Hikmat, told Bire about an abandoned ancestral home in Timirkot, prompting the family to embark on a twenty-kilometer walk through the hills to reach it. The family worked to restore the abandoned house and cultivate the land, turning it into a productive farm. Their peaceful existence was interrupted when Captain Chitra Bahadur, the property’s owner and a Gurkha veteran living in England, unexpectedly visited.
Instead of demanding they leave, Captain Chitra Bahadur was impressed by their efforts and granted them permanent residency as long as they paid the property taxes, giving the family a secure future in their new home.
