Feriwala
I was getting out for my evening constitutional when I heard two voices speaking in Nepali who walked past our house. Once on the road, I saw these two Nepali 'feriwalas' with bundles of blankets tied to their backs slowly trudging further up the road. As I walked past them a voice from behind called me 'Uncle ji ek kambal le lo.' I turned back. One of the Nepali men said 'Thand ho rahi hai odhane ke liye aapko ek kambal dete hain.' I slowed down and he caught up with me. We started chatting. For the first few minutes he tried to convince me to buy one of his blankets and when I steadfastly refused we started walking at a slightly lower pace and started talking about life in general. Bhim Bahadur and his son were walking back from a village about 15 km away he said. When I asked them whether it was village A or village B he was impressed with my local knowledge. Where are you from he asked. I told him I lived here. When he insisted on where my father was fro...