Guthi | Year 13 | Page 1 Guthi | Year 13 | Page 2 Guthi | Year 13 | Page 3 Guthi Pasa Puchah Guthi UK’s Annual Magazine Year 13 EDITORS Sanyukta Shrestha Tribeni Gurung DESIGNER Sanyukta Shrestha CONTRIBUTORS Aarya Shrestha Ajaya Bajracharya Angela Shrestha Bal Gopal Shrestha BimalPrabha Bajracharya Buddha Shakya Daya Shakya Gyani Shova Tuladhar Hind Maiya Vaidya Kanchan Shakya Rekha Shakya Ruben Shakya Sabin Rajbhandari Sambhandha Pradhan Sanyojan Shrestha Shashi Mahaju Sunita Junu Rajbhandari Tribeni Gurung PHOTOGRAPHERS Niraj Shrestha Om Pradhan Rupa Maharjan Sanyukta Shrestha Suresh Shrestha PUBLISHER Pasa Puchah Guthi UK (London) Mha Puja Nepal Samvat 1134 4th November 2013 Guthi | Year 13 | Page 4 Table of Contents Message from PPGUK President Editorial Bhintuna Messages to PPGUK [1] PPGUK Events [i] Mha Puja NS 1133 [ii] Yomari Punhi & Ghya-Chaaku Sanlhu NS 1133 [ii] Guthi Seminar [iv] Annual Picnic NS 1133 [v] Annual General Meeting NS 1133 [vi] PPGUK Art Exhibition [vii] Table Tennis Championship [2] Kids’ Artworks [i] Sanyojan Shrestha [ii] Ruben Shakya [ii] Kanchan Shakya [iv] Aarya Shrestha [v] Ajaya Bajracharya [3] Essays [i] Baucha-O-Maicha : Tribeni Gurung [ii] n08go\ h"u' xln+ g]jfM tMd'Hof j Dxk'hf : ladnk|ef ah|frfo{ [iii] b]zf]4f/ k'hf : lxGb d}+of j}B [iv] ;Sj b]of jf+bf BM : afn uf]kfn >]i7 [v] xln+ g]jfM ba" uy] Gx\oft : bof zfSo [4] Poems [i] g' g' kf;flk+ : 1fgL zf]ef t'nfw/ [ii] rfkf : zlz dxfh' [iii] xfOs' : ;'lgtf h'g' /fhe08f/L [iv] hLjg lhu' : /]vf zfSo [v] laxf/ : a'4 zfSo [5] Memoirs [i] Angela Shrestha [ii] Sambhandha Pradhan [iii] Sabin Rajbhandari [6] Guthi Cartoon Guthi | Year 13 | Page 5 PPGUK Membership Form I understand the objective of Pasa Puchah Guthi and being interested in it, I hereby apply for membership. Types of membership available: Personal membership: £5 Personal membership (for 2 years): £10 Family membership: £10 Life membership (Single): £100 Life membership (Couple): £150 Corporate membership: £150 I enclose a remittance for the sum of £______ in respect of my/our membership fee. I enclose a £______further as donation to PPG. Please fill in the details below: (PLEASE USE BLOCK CAPITALS) Full Name (Mr/Mrs/Miss): _____________________________________ Occupation: _____________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ Post Code: _____________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________ Mobile: _____________________________________ Please send membership fees to: (Cheques made payable to Pasa Puchah Guthi, UK) Pasa Puchah Guthi UK Joint Secretary 22 Westcott Crescent, London, W7 1PA. Thank you for joining Pasa Puchah Guthi! Guthi | Year 13 | Page 6 PPGUK Membership Form I understand the objective of Pasa Puchah Guthi and being interested in it, I hereby apply for membership. Types of membership available: Personal membership: £5 Personal membership (for 2 years): £10 Family membership: £10 Life membership (Single): £100 Life membership (Couple): £150 Corporate membership: £150 I enclose a remittance for the sum of £______ in respect of my/our membership fee. I enclose a £______further as donation to PPG. Please fill in the details below: (PLEASE USE BLOCK CAPITALS) Full Name (Mr/Mrs/Miss): _____________________________________ Occupation: _____________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ Post Code: _____________________________________ E-mail: _____________________________________ Telephone: _____________________________________ Mobile: _____________________________________ Please send membership fees to: (Cheques made payable to Pasa Puchah Guthi, UK) Pasa Puchah Guthi UK Joint Secretary 22 Westcott Crescent, London, W7 1PA. Thank you for joining Pasa Puchah Guthi! Guthi | Year 13 | Page 7 Happy New Year NS 1134 Guthi | Year 13 | Page 8 Message from kf;f k'rM u'lyof PPGUK President gfoMofu' wfk" Jwajwalapaa! HjHjnkf† Not only does Mha Puja mark the beginning Dx k'hf+ Gx" b“ Solgu' hsM dv', ´Lu' Gx" of a new year in Nepal, it also adds new energy and leads us to our new future. Pasa eljio g Solg j Gx" phf{ g cKjofjlg. a] Puchah Guthi UK is celebrating this important nfoto\ kf;f k'rM u'ly+ y'u' gvM xgfjofRj+u' tradition for the 13th year now. Since Mha y'u'l; !# b“ Sog. g]jfMto\u' Dxl;sf ln;] Puja is closely connected to the identity Dx k'hfofu' Sjft'u' :jfk' b"u'ln+ g]kfM lkg] of Newahs, it is quite appropriate for the g g]jfto\;+ Dx k'hf xg]u' ofgfRj+u' kfo\l5 Newahs to celebrate this remarkable event x] vM. even outside Nepal. yMDx yMt x] k'hf ofgf yM b'g] BM vlgu' g] The underlying philosophy of Mha Puja, in jfM ;+:s[ltofu' bfz{lgs kÔ Rj5fo]axM h'. which one worships one’s own body and sees many Gods within oneself, has a ´L;+ ´Lu' Dxl;sf Djfs]u' hsM dv' d]lk+t great significance. We, the Newahs, have g ´Lu' ;+:s[lt afnfsM Dxl;sf lao]u' j g] the responsibility of not only preserving our kfMofu' x] uf}/j h'of ;sn g]jfto\t G≈og] cultural identity but also to introduce our great sofjg]dfu' b'. heritage to others; thus leading Nepalese community internationally. kf;f k'rM u'ly o' s] ofu' ;sn b'hMto\t j ´Lt Ujfxfln ofgflbOlk+ ;snl;oft My best wishes are for all the members and Dx k'hf j Gx" b“ g]kfn ;+jt\ !!#$ So+u' supporters of Pasa Puchah Guthi UK on the n;tfo\ b'g'un+ le+t'gf B5fo]. auspicious occasion of Mha Puja, and I wish you all a very happy Nepal Samvat New Year 1134. Nhu DanYaa Bhintuna! Gx" b“of le+t'gf †† Balmukund Prasad Joshi afnd's'Gb k|;fb hf]zL President gfoM kf;f k'rM u'ly o' s], Pasa Puchah Guthi UK, n08g London Guthi | Year 13 | Page 9 Editorial Like with every other organization, perhaps Pasa Puchah Guthi UK is also a place about which every individual will have their own stories to share. There are, however, a number of experiences which we all must have had in common. Most people join Pasa Puchah Guthi to get over the longing for their own people and culture whilst in the UK, and I probably did the same. I was but so unaware of the overwhelming My very first experience with Guthi was as experience this one decision could bring to my a guest to their Table Tennis event in 2009. After life! travelling some two hours from where I live with a four months old son wrapped onto my chest, A community where volunteers are very when I entered the Heathrow-based sports hall, difficult to find, I entered Guthi as the Joint I didn’t know a single face. It was like landing up Secretary of a newly formed team. This was the in a foreign terrain where I feared no one would first voluntary role in my life that I had taken up ever speak to me. Throughout the program, I without even knowing what it would entail. By kept walking from one corner to the other, and the end of the following two years, I saw myself my boy just moved his head from one side to stepping up as a General Secretary, for which I the other. Then it was time for lunch. I tasted was hardly prepared. Unlike a new employment Chhwoyela for the first time in my five years of with a company where I would be expected to being in London. have necessary background and skills, here, I was given an opportunity to learn about a My boy was still wrapped around my body, completely different world, that too from scratch. and I was not having an easy time having lunch. A world where there are no bosses but friends; One kind lady volunteered to carry the infant no orders to be carried out but contributions to while I could finish eating. This happened for the be made for my own people. first time in the four months of my fatherhood. Today I know that there are many ladies in the Actually, every time I told myself that ‘this Guthi who are kind enough to offer a hand, to is for my own people’, every big problem turned make sure every participant is having a good out to be small. Soon, all those Guthi chores and comfortable time. made up my lifestyle. Imagining me without the Guthi backdrop became almost impossible. The very first occasion when I was introduced to Guthi was the Annual General If this is what one feels after a mere Meeting of 2010. Amidst many big names, also four years of involvement with Guthi, I can only attending the event was an otherwise quiet lady imagine how it is for those seniors who have who brought with her some snacks for everyone. spent all their lives building and nurturing Guthi! Her act reminded me of something my mother would have told me to do but I had somehow Most people ask me a question I so hate forgotten, having lived away from my family all to answer, ‘What do you get by doing all this?’ those years. After knowing her, I have never had But when I search for an answer to it, I find to envy my friends who have sisters. myself the luckiest Nepali in the UK. Guthi | Year 13 | Page 10 My first experience as a member of the Bhwoye, Gu Bhwoye, NepalBhasha movie, Guthi community was also as an organiser of Yomari Punhi, Kwati Punhi and everything else Mha Puja 2010 at Wembley. I had never seen so that we envisaged. many Nepalese people celebrating their culture Today, while serving bhwoye to Guthi in London. Hundreds of others were witnessing members, when they shout at me - ‘Hey boy! this extravaganza as much as I was, having an Bring that chhwoyela here!’, ‘Hey get me some eyeful.