Cheated by a Romanian dream, a son never got to say goodbye to his dying mother

Ashok Kumar Jha of Barmajhiya, Saptari, has nothing left on his face but deep emptiness and rage. His family has been financially devastated by the suffering inflicted by a labour broker in the name of foreign employment, and by a cruel twist of fate.

His son Suraj Jha had dreamed of working as a delivery boy in Romania, earning around Rs 1.25 lakh a month and lifting his family out of poverty. Instead, Suraj today finds himself not in Romania, but forced to sweat in the deserts of Qatar, having given up on that dream.