The local vegetable market in Birgunj city, a perfect place to check the pulse of separate Madhesi nationalism. (Picture credit: Aaquib Khan)
"Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai, aaj phir marne ka irada hai... (Today, I have a desire to live again. Today, I want to die again)."
"Have you heard this song before?" asks Chandra Kishor, while sipping his sugar-free tea in a blistering afternoon in Nepal's Birgunj.
