It has been more than 40 years since he started playing sarangi. Even though I live in Dharapani, Gorkha Municipality-7, I still reach Gorkha, Lamjung, Dhading and sometimes even Kathmandu. I am 60 years old. Now he has asthma. It is a little difficult to walk due to the problem of self-suffocation. He doesn't want to leave his profession because he wants to play the sarangi. Our three sons, wife and I have supported our lives by the income of singing tunes.

Eldest 12 and Milo and youngest are studying in class 11 . It has been five/seven years since it has been left barren even though there are 15 crops. Evening-morning food, new clothes and the expenses of the festival are collected by spending money. Gorkha has destroyed the entire district. 

Even though others from the Gandharva community have left this profession, I am happy with it . I couldn't go to school. When I was 17/18 years old, the year I got married, my father handed over the sarangi to me from now on. At that time, I did not know how to play sarangi. What should we do, how should we do it? . I reached Khoplang carrying sarangi. I didn't go, I played teasingly . Even when the Bishtas of Khoplang played unknowingly, they gave paddy/rice . At that time, I make two muri paddy . There was no bridge, I brought that paddy home by crossing the Darodi river. At that time, notes (money) were not in use . Some would give double, some would not give . Even if they gave rice and paddy, walking all day would not earn 10 rupees. Money was very sad. 

I grew up in sorrow from a young age . This sarangi became the way to earn. He did not stop playing Sarangi until he was 60 years old. He will stay at home for two to four days. Otherwise, playing the sarangi, I will visit the villages. Wherever the night falls, I will stay there . I say I am a Gandharva and get a residence, they give me a gundri and a thong, I sleep for a generation. There is no day without walking. Times have changed now. After playing sarangi, they give notes . Most of them give the same 5, 10, 20 rupee notes . Those who want to give one hundred, even five hundred . When you give a hundred note, your heart will be happy. 

is now even more popular. It will be light until late. Sometimes up to 12/15 hundred is earned in a day. Budhi (Bhagwati) has been working in the municipal public toilet for two years. His salary is 15,000. 10 for defecating, 5 for urinating. Money will be made according to how many people go. Now the old woman's earnings are saved. This sarangi is being used to make a living . 30,000 a month is not enough for a family of five.

I haven't bought rice yet, the one I gave when I played sarangi is enough . Padhi/12 manas of rice is collected in a day . Tiun-vegetables are also sometimes available, otherwise they are found while playing sarangi and asking for them. The goal is big . Spending a little more during Dasain Tihar . Even 10/8 thousand is not enough in Tikkatalo . I used to buy Daura, Surwal and Kot new clothes on Dasain . It costs 8/10 thousand to buy clothes and sew them. All those expenses have been met with the money demanded by playing this sarangi. 

It is also sad to walk. Playing the sarangi and moving around the village, you can't eat, you can't sleep. They do well in some place while playing sarangi. Some say that they have limbs, can't eat, and ask for anything. When hearing such words, one feels prayer. It does not mean that the son of a singer cannot be asked to eat . Spices, salt, oil, torn clothes cost more to educate their sons . If the sons asked for it, it took only one/two hundred days . Because the

is insured, the treatment does not cost that much . The old woman's salary has not been spent. Now it is becoming difficult to walk due to old age . I think I could have done some business . It seems like the sons got a small job . I am also talking to the mayor. It would be happy if the sons got a job . Now Magi walked as long as his legs could. It is enough to eat . Therein lies the joy.