एक्कैछिन

 'तपाइलाई थाहा छ प्रभु को बारेमा ' अपरिचित युबतीले मलाई सोध्छिन
'थाहा छैन त ' छोराको स्कुल बस कुरीरहेको म उसलाई उत्तर दिन्छु किनकी म सँग नि समय अलिकती छ छोरा नाअइेन्जेल  
'तपाइलाई म केही कुर भन्न चाहन्छु तपाईं सुन्न चाहनु हुन्छ? " सानो बहिनीहरु देखेर उनीहरु पनि काम गरी रहेको त हो नि भनेर म चासो देखाएर भन्छु " हुन्छ "
'तपाइ लाई शरीर महत्वपूर्ण लाग्छ कि आत्मा ?' उनी सोध्छिन
'दुबै "
'मान्छेले शरीर मात्र देख्ने हुनाले शरीर लाई महत्व दिन्छ तर यदी आत्मा शरीर मा छैन भने त्यो मनिष जिवित रहदैन'
'ए'
' तपाईं लाई आत्मा कहाँंबाट कसरी आउँछ जान्ने मन् छ भने मन्डली मा आउनु न है । उ पर चोक नजिकै छ आउनु हुन्छ ?'
'बिचार गर्छु '
'धन्यवाद '
'तपाइलाई नि धन्यवाद है त "
 

आमा

 बहिनी : दिदी निवाले अस्ती स्वयम्भु  जाँदा  आमा को  letters खोजेर आमा लेख्दै थियो ।

बाटो

 बाटो बाल्यकालको 

अनी ठुलो भएपछिको । 

बदली रहन्छन् ..

यिनै बाटोहरु  काट्दा काट्दै  

बित्ने रहेछ जिन्दगी 

तिनै बाटोहरुमा हिड्दा हिड्दै। 

Keshar Maya Jimi

‘A life full of struggle, hard work and a helping hand to a successful man’

It is a story of my grandmother Keshar Maya Jimi. 

In the village of Tamaphuk which was famously called ‘Dash Majhiya’ ( Land of ten landlords), there was a beautiful neighbourhood ‘Otema Tole’ ( Plain land). By it’s name, the village had large plain lands unlike other hills of Nepal. The village faced north to Mount Makaalu, which meant it was full of greenery and water resources.

The people depended on agriculture as their livelihoods. They produced grains like maize, barley, soybean, rice and mustard. The village was also famous for kitchen garden. They had broad mustard leaf, raddish, Chayote( Iskus)onion and chillies. The villagers used to produce garlic and mustard seeds for the cash crop and used to sell in the far market of Chainpur (biggest in the district).

 Some people opted for British Army and some people used to go to ‘Assam’ (Mostly to North East of India) for searching their fortunes.

Among these families, there was a family of Mr XXX who was the landlord of the village. He had two sons, but no trace of daughters. The youngest son’s name was Yamun Sing Lingkha who had two wives. When he was a child, he was married to a girl and that girl as a tradition remained in her ‘Maiti’( Parents home).As the time passed, the girl was expecting a child from different man while her stay in Maiti. The Maiti people wanted to give the responsibility to formal married husband to save their pride. But Yamun Sing Lingkha didn’t accept the baby so he had to face legal procedure to prove his innocence. He struggle his whole life in this matter but he couldn’t get justice at the end too.

The second wife was .......... He had four daughters and two sons with his second wife. The two sons died at an early age. The second wife died after giving birth to last son. Then he never got married. He provided his family by agriculture and he was also a good carpenter. He used to go to Chainpur for the carpentry work. The income source was good and so was his daily living. He had a large house and the design was like a house from the Chainpur. He had a large garden with a large pond near his house. The garden was full of flowers like scented roses, red flowers, pink flowers, night queen flowers. The aroma of the flowers spread day and night.

The large pond had it’s own story. Once, the village was caught with fire and the water from the pond was used to extinguish the fire. Similarly, a person was chased by the large murder hornet and he went beneath the water in the pond and saved his life.

He was a progressive man as he travelled to Kathmandu many times for this justice. It used to take one month to travel to Kathmandu from his village and a lot of resources like rice, clothing, utensils and men. In the village, the thatched roof need a lot of Khaar( material especially for roof). People had to go to dangerous cliffs to get it. But he had planted them in his land so that no accidents occur while getting it which was a rare sight. No people planted such thing in their agricultural land. 

Keshar Maya Jimi was the second daughter of Yamun Sing Lingkha. 

 

लकडाउन

म : उहानमा लकडाउन खुलेछ ।
छोरा : हामी उहान जाम न त ।  

दिनहरु

आज मिति १३ अगस्त  २०१९ ।
मेरो छोरा निवा  पनि सात बर्ष पुगेर आठ  लाग्यो । अहिले कक्षा २ मा पढ्दै छ ।मेरो जिन्दगी उसैको सेरोफेरोमा बितिरहेछ । उसलाई स्कुल लाने । पढाउने । नुहाउने । घुमाउने । आदी  कामहरु नै मुख्य काम हरु  हुन ।

 यसो सोच्दा लाग्छ जिन्दगी यतिकै कट्दो  रहेछ । फरक फरक अनुभब हरु मा । आफु केटा केटी हुँदाको अनुभब । बिद्यार्थी हुँदाको अनि कामकाजी हुँदाको र अहिले बच्छ हुर्काउदाको । सबै अनुभब हरु मा आफ्नो आफ्नो तितो मिठो कथा हुदो रहेछ । अहिले सम्झदा पुरानो अनुभब रमाइलो लाग्छ अनि फेरी पछी फेरी फर्केर हेर्दा अहिलेको अवस्था को मिस गर्न थालिदो रहेछ ।

सन्तानको माया पनि अचम्मको हुदो रहेछ । जती माया ख नाए पनि  नसकिने । एकोहोरो । कहिले काही डर लाग्छ । धेरै मायाको । अनि फेरी म आफैलाई सम्झन  पुग्छु । जिन्दगी चक्र रहेछ । घुमी रहने ।

छोरा र Barry

म : Barry आउदै छ हाम्रो घरमा।  उ संग english मा कुरा गर्नु पर्छ है। 
छोरा : उ पनि स्कूल जान्छ हो ? ( स्कूल मा english बोल्नु पर्ने भएकोले )
म : जादैन
छोरा : अनी   के गर्छ त ?
म :  ऊ घरमै बस्छ, बुढो  छ नि त। 
छोरा: म पनि बुढो  हुने !