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अष्टिम्की पर्व | Astimki Festival |Tharu Wall Painting Festival

थारू समुदायको विभिन्न चाडपर्व मध्ये अष्टिम्की एक महत्वपूर्ण चाड हो। अष्टिम्कीमा घरको भित्तामा चित्र कोरेर पूजा गर्ने चलन छ। ३ दिनसम्म मनाइन्छ यो चाडको तयारी महिनौंदेखि थालिन्छ। महिनौदेखि तयारी गरिने यस चाडमा के विशेष छ? आखिर किन मनाइन्छ अष्टिम्की? अष्टिम्की पर्वको बारेमा बुझ्नु अघि थारू घरको भू-बनोट बारे जान्न जरूरी छ। थारू घरको भू-बनोट प्रायः […]

Janai Purnima

Janai Purnima: Secrets of Sacred Thread | जनै पूर्णिमा | रक्षा बन्धन |

जनै पूर्णिमा आफ्नो सुरक्षाका निम्ति विशेष मन्त्रले मन्त्रिएको डोरोलाई उदयव्यापिनी पूर्णिमा तिथिका दिन जनैका रुपमा लगाउने पर्वलाई जनै पूर्णिमा भनिन्छ। यसरी मन्त्र पढिएको डोराले देवऋण, पितृ ऋण तथा ऋषि ऋणबाट मुक्ति दिलाउने जनविश्वास भएकोले ऋषिहरुको सम्झना गर्दै जनै लगाउने यो पर्वलाई ऋषि तर्पणी पनि भनिन्छ। यो पर्वमा हिन्दु धर्मावलम्बीले ९ वटा देवहरु उँकार, अग्नि, सर्प, […]

Nag panchami

नाग पञ्चमी | Nag Panchami: Why Nepali celebrated it?

नागराजसँग ब्रह्माको संवाद भएको तिथिका रूपमा श्रावन शुक्ल पञ्चमीका दिन नागपञ्चमी पर्व मनाइन्छ। यो पर्वमा नागको अष्टकूल अर्थात् अनन्त, वाशुकी, पद्म, महापद्म, तत्क्षक, कुलीर, कर्कट र शंख नागको चित्रमा दुध, दही, अक्षता, फूल, दुबो, आदिले विधिपूर्वक पूजा गरेर दुध र नैवद्ध चढाइन्छ। यस्तो विधि सकिएपछि नागको तस्बिरलाई घरको मूल ढोकामा टाँसिन्छ। यसरी नागको तस्बिर टाँस्नाले […]

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संस्कारले साटिएकी गुक्ची | Nepali Story | Offline Thinker

संस्कारले साटिएकी गुक्ची विविध किसिमको परम्परा, चालचलन र रीतिरीवाजले सजिएको थारु संस्कृतिमा राम्रो पक्षका साथै केही नराम्रा संस्कारहरु पनि विद्धमान छन् । जस्तैः झाँगा तिर्ने (केटीको आमाबुबालाई केटा पक्षले पैँसा र अन्न तिर्ने चलन), साटासाट विवाह गर्ने (एक घरको दाजुबहिनी अर्को घरको दिदीभाइसँग साटासाट गरी विवाह गर्ने चलन), अनमेल विवाह गर्ने र  बालविवाह गर्ने। हाल […]

साहित्यकार

१०० वर्षिय थारु साहित्यकार कामता प्रसाद चौधरीको सम्झनामा | Kamata Prasad Chaudhary

झुमरा गीत लाली रे चुन्दरी मेरे, ऊडि फहराइल हे। यहरी वहरी लयराय, रेशमी चुन्दरी ऊडि जाय मोर।। सर, सर, सर, सर चलल बयलिया हे। जिया मोर डगमग डोले, चुन्दरी ऊडे धिरे धिरे मोर।। फर फर फर फर ऊडल चुन्दरिया हे। महि हे बहुत दिक लागे, घुटघुट खोले खोले खोले मोर                               (२०३० साल, कविता संग्रह […]

Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

Years, roads | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

My father says: “My pure daughter,” His eyes fill with tears. Do I remind my grandma? Do I look like her myself, or my eyebrows?    I was a child and I didn’t realize, Why my father looked with longing Why he liked me for my long dress, tassel, And my simple-mindedness.   Years, roads, […]

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Night | Poem | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

The sheet of silence became soaking wet, The moon made a plopping sound and swam in the stream. The pearls of the night in the sky Added beauty to that gracefulness.   I remembered you on that peaceful night, A bitter pain sliced my heart. My feelings dripped from my eyes like the stars, Where […]

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Discussion of books | Poem by Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

“I am a new one, my cover is new, My wing–page rustles. Your cover’s color is pale, And ink dripped on your page.”   “Don’t laugh on me, no; you desire to be like me, I was read more than you. If how many times I was read, So many questions would be solved.”   […]

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Woman | English Poem | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

Spring came to see you, The moon is going to stay on your dimple. Kindness and love in your heart, Will give the world beauty.   Woman, looking from your trace, Drunkenly autumn sifted loaves. When you walk with loyalty, The pains of winter become better.     Woman, your kindness is a gift for summer, […]

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My Childhood | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

My childhood remained in childhood, The wave of life took it to the strange coasts. In Margilan a weeping willow waited for me as my grandma, And its shoulders sank.   The smell of flower tulip remained on my nose, The song of butterfly remained in my ear. I handed to the sun snowdrops, The […]

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The Odor of Happiness | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova | Poem

Light leaks from the embrace of mountains, Sensitive trees wake up. Empty baskets Roll down the arbor.   In the early morning, my mother builds fire in tandoor, And she bakes kindness in tandoor. She fills the embrace of baskets, Every morning appreciates it.   She sprays water over the drowsy courtyard, And she wakens […]

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Love | Poem | Makhliyokhon Umirzakova

Where did you go burning my heart? What for you became upset, love? Did emotions end? The talking finished?   Tongueless yellow loaves stayed, In our trace, traces. As a crane that lost its way over the night sky The tear is in our eyes.   Separation, why are you so bitter pain? There is […]