Sakhi

Sakhi Ramlal Joshi is a social novel with various stories of poor community and the characters who were born and raised in poverty, discrimination, segregation. These characters represent different aspect of the society. Manav is the central character of the story who was migrated from Doti, a rural village of western Nepal to Dhangadi. As a young child, he was a friend of Sakhi who was a kamlahari, a servant in his house. He teaches her to study, plays with her. However, when he goes to school, he meets Malati, a daughter of a local king called Chandra Bahadur. Malati used to sit alone in the classroom as per the command of Chandra Bahadur. Chandra Bahadur represents the upper class of the society who exploits the kamaiya. Kamaiya is a social system in which poor people go to the rich man’s home to work in their farm, to work in the kitchen. The owners of the kamaiya often rape the women and impregnate them. Those impregnated women are arranged with second marriage with some poor person who agrees to do so with a few bucks. 

Sakhi is a girl who grows up in the Kamaiya family working as a servant. She befriends with Manav. Once Manav escapes the village after his letter to Malati was found by the teacher.  He was also beaten up by the gang of Malati’s brothers. Sakhi is raped by the owner. Then she gets married with a poor man of the village after being pregnant from her owner. After that she marriages with three different people, has three children. But at last she is left alone with three children. She actively participated in the revolutionary movement. She was in the front line in the everyday demonstration. She became the headline of the news.  

She again became a scapegoat of a journalist who purposed he to marry. Sakhi gets entangled with him thinking that her marriage with him can be a shelter to her three children. But later on, a white lady jou rnalist started relation with her husband and her marriage ends here.  

Then she starts working in a hostel as a dishwasher with the help of a teacher. One day brings in a woman who has no food to eat no place to take a shelter. After that one after another she brings in those people who has no home to go, no food to eat and disable to work. She buys some land with help of the donors and builds shelter for those people.  

On the other Manav is wondering one place to another. He is a character of uncertainty. When he first leaves the village, he arrives to Charpala, a remote village of Gulmi. He starts his life away from home herding cows and working at a house. He also goes to school for a few days. But he can not stay longer. Then he returns to Dhangadi, completes his education , works as a teacher.But wherever he goes his childhood memories always hunt him. He becomes a poet goes to India for the recitation of his poems. This is the summit of his carrier. But he can never be satisfied with his achievement. One day his wires in the head stop functioning. He is admitted in the hospital. it is published in the media. One day his brothers, sons of Kaila kaka come to bring him home. He returns home after long time and also knows that his father and mother both died and shakhi  is disappeared. the childhood memories hunts and follows him like a shadow. then he embarks in search of Sakhi. He disguises himself as a mamfooli man hoping that Shakhi will come to buy mamfooli. 

But at last he sees her in a program where Sakhi was the chief guest. Knowing that saki is famous and most successful, he hesitates to go in front of her. He calls her by her name  while she is going off the stage toward her car parked on the street. Sakhi recognizes him at once and brings himm to her place where she shares all the struggle she has gone through with Manav.