बिचरा यिनीहरु को नि सपना ,its feels soo terrible ,
Hope soon our government will come up with good news for them.


Description :
Chepangs and Kusundas

These
backward ethnic communities belong to a well defined traditional area
in the south of Dhading, the west of Makawanpur and east of Chitwan
along the steeper slopes of Mahabharat range of the mid- Nepal. Very
few of these hunting tribal people started deriving subsistence from
agriculture. Otherwise, hunting, wood collection etc. have been their
foremost living subsistence. Though , they are economically backward,
they have a rich and unique cultural tradition. With the increasing
encroachment of the forest ( their main living recourse) by themselves
and other communities alike, these people lately started working in the
development projects in the areas as hard labors.

Physionomically
Mongoloid featured Chepangs (& Kusundas) resemble the Kirantis (
the Rais and Limbus) but their lineage to them is yet to be confirmed.
Their totems are dog ( ' Che' is dog in their dialect) and arrow (
'Pang' is arrow). Their dialect belong to the Tibeto - Burman group of
languages. It, however, differs significantly to the Tamang dialect.
The Tamangs live higher in the mountains than the Chepangs and the
Brahmins and Chhetris live in the lower dales.

They call
themselves Sunpraja and Praja. They consider themselves as progeny of
Lava ( ' Lohari' in Chepang dialect) the son of lord Rama in the great
Hindu epic Ramayana. According to the Legends, the goddess Sita, the
consort of Lord Rama gave birth to a son Lava while she was in exile in
a hermitage of sage Balmiki near Narayani river in Nepal. One day , she
went with her son to take a bath in the Narayani river. The sage saw
the cradle empty and created another living likeness of the baby out of
Kusha grass, fearing that Sita would be shocked at not finding her son
and blame the sage for not watching the baby properly. On her return
from bath, Sita was startled to find another baby in the cradle. The
sage, later on , explained her the details and advised her to raise
both of them as her own sons. The other was brought up as Kusha.

Chepangs
believe themselves as the progeny of Lava and Kusundas as the
descendants of Kusha. ( or Kushari in Chepang dialect). Chepangs and
Kusundas are natural enemies. Chepangs fear that Kusundas kill them on
sight. Kusundas are still in the primitive stage and live in the
forests and caves in the forests of southern part of Gorkha. It is
believed that only few dozens of Kusundas exist in the forest. Chyuri (
an indigenous fruit) is their favorite fruit. A Chepang family not
owning a Chyuri tree is considered poor and generally looked down
upon.Chepang form an strict exogamous clan. Offspring from a Chepang
woman and a non- Chepang man becomes a Chepang as they are not accepted
by other orthodox castes.

They observe all the Hindu festivals
of Dashain, Tihar and Sakrantis besides their own tribal festival
Nwagi, which is performed on a Tuesday during third week of Bhadra (
some day in August and September). Chepangs do not possess other
artistic skills of any kind except weaving of baskets and leaf
umbrellas which they use for protection against rain. Very few Chepangs
are literate. There still persists a tendency among the Chepangs to
avoid schooling even if the government and other organization are
trying to uplift their living standard.

Aru garib nepali haru jastai chepang jatiko pani pramukh samasya bhaneko sikchya nai ho, praya chepang haru sikchit chainan ra uniharulai aya arjanko simit abasar cha, simit kheti yogya jamin bhayeka chepangharu kam khojna mathi dada bata tala bajar tira jharnai parne awastha cha. Ek choti maile Dhading ko Jogimara ma chundhunga ko sample collection ko kaam garna chepangharuko sahayog liyeko thiye, uniharu bastabmai sojha ra kaam prati imandar thiye, afulai diyeko kaam jimmewari ko sath pura garne, tara sayad sikchyako kami nai hola, paisa paye pachi bhane sabai jaad khayera ra anabasyak kura ma kharcha garer sakaune.........

Yastai arko euta prasanga pani samjhanchu..... Chitwanko Shaktikhor VDC ma .....tya pani euta chun dhungako khani fela pareko ra tyo khani ma udyog chalauna ek jana byakti ikchuk bhayeka thiye, ani tyako jamin chahi chepang haruko naam ma thiyo. Ti udyogile chepang haru lai uniharuko jaminko ramro mol dina kabul gare pani tala bajar tira basne aru batha tathaharule chahi yo udyog chalaye pachi hamro gau khattam huncha bhanera chahine nachahine halla machayera kaam garna diyenan. Tespachi sampurna chepangharu ra aru batha tatha bhanauda harulai bus ma halera hetauda cement ko khani dekhauna lagiyo. Khanima kasari kaam garido raicha bhanne dekhe pachi chepang haru ra aru batha tatha haru pani jamin bechna ra udyog chalauna dina raji bhaye, tara kehi samaye pachi tha bhayo tyo jagga bechiyeko paisa dherai chepang harule jathabhabi gari udayechan, dheraile raksi ma ani kasai kasaile motorcycle kinera accident pani garaye bhanne suniyo.

Shaktikhorka chepang haru aru gau ka chepang bhanda ali ramro awasthama chan. Uniharuko samuhik rupama kam garchan, uniharule aya arjan garne tarika haru pani apanayeka chan.

Mero jiwan ma kahile birsana nasakne euta ghatana chahi euta chepangle malai lagayeko gun pani ho. Chungdhunga khojdai jane kramma ma euta virma ali ali gardai bichhaima pugichu. Tyo bela yasto sthiti ayo ki ma mathi jana pani nasakne farker auna pani nasakne... ma ta bhir ko bichma adkiye, daya baya katai jana sakne sthiti thiyena. Ali kati khutta chipliyo bhane sayeu meter tala kholsa ma bajarine.......Tara tyo bela malai tehi gauko euta chepang Man Bahadur Prajale ayera chyappa samater bhir bata tanera mero jyan bachayo...

Chepangharu sangaka anubhab aru pani thuprai chan. Tara bhannu parda uniharuko pramukh samasya bhaneko sikshya ra aya arjanko abasar nai ho. Yasmathi uniharuko chimekma raheka batha tatha bhanauda harule uni haru parti soshanko niti rakhnu pani yi chepangharuko durbhagya ho

Well said Geology Tiger ....

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