A fictional account of events that may or may not have happened.

[This is a story about a wealthy businessman named Golcha (fictional) and two of his hardworking labourers Mr. Chaudhary and Mr. Karki, (also fictional) in Biratnagar, lets say.]

Once, there was a huge "political" movement which crippled life in the entire region. Factories, schools, colleges everything was forcefully shutdown. Vehicles were burnt, passengers roughed up and shops vandalized. Through all this, the government seemed pretty sure that the misinformation used to create unrest would be decimated and that people on the roads would understand that they were being used as a political lifeline by some "leaders".The government failed to push the truth and hence the agitation kept going for more than 80 days and kept getting violent by the day. Now, returning to the main characters in this story; with his factory closed and nothing to do, Mr. Golcha headed for a Europe tour with his family. Mr. Chaudhary and Mr. Karki had no job and no source of income to feed their family. Their only hope for a better future, their kids, could not attend school and were losing interest in studies each passing day. Thereby, the hopes of a better future of both families were slowly fading into the foggy terai morning. Now, this here's a tricky part. Mr. Golcha, by virtue of being rich and powerful with a strong rich people union, was able to strong arm the government to waive any and all duties/taxes and even bank interest for the period of closure. Mr Chaudhary and Karki were, however, not fortunate enough to be rich. So, they did not get any of their interest(on smaller home loans) waived, nor did they get any salary for the days of closure. After another week of unrest and intense public pressure, the agitating parties signed an agreement with the government with multiple points which pretty much were already guaranteed by the same constitution they were protesting. But hey, in Nepal, we don't do introspection and we don't stop to reflect on our actions. All was worth it, right Mr Leader! So, normal routine started and the factories reopened and Mr. Golcha, Karki and Chaudhary all were back to work. But hey, Mr. Golcha is content. Who cares if the poor, helpless people are sad, am I right? Oh Shit! I forgot. That agitation was FOR these poor souls. Well who could begrudge that? Surely, "the Golchas" were the backwards, marginalized section of our community they all were fighting for, No? Surely now they are better off, right? Well, not quite. Turns out they are even worse off now. They were not paid for almost 3 months and their kids are now completely off their rails and do not want to go to school anymore. Well, tough luck! So, “what actually did the agitation accomplish?”, you might ask. The agitation was so successful that they managed to work out a system by which scholarships would be provided in higher education and quotas in Government jobs based, primarily, on the caste you fall. Later, while the sons of Mr. Karki and Mr. Chaudhary were scrambling in the bus depot to get passengers for their rickshaws, poor Mr. Golcha's daughter climbed aboard one of their rickshaw headed to the Medical college fully funded by the Government. OH CRAP! How did we get here?