As the Tharu community in Bagai, in the eastern corner of Madi, recited the rituals of the Yamosa festival, one of the main festivals they celebrate, on Saturday, the Duras, a tribal group living there, echoed their original, traditional dialect.
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Madi is the main settlement area of the indigenous Tharu community. Madi, which has to be crossed through the forests of the South Chitwan National Park from Bharatpur, is home to many ethnic groups along with the Tharu.
On Saturday, in Bagai, the eastern corner of Madi, the Tharu community was explaining the rituals of the Yamosa festival, one of the main festivals they celebrate, when the Duras living there echoed their original dialect.
The Gandharva community also lives in Kantipur and Kharkatta in Madi. They narrated their stories to the tune of the sarangi. The Yamosa of the Tharu community falls on the last day of Sohra Shraddha in the month of Asoj or Kartik on the Aunsi tithi. But in a program organized by the Pragya Pratishthan of Madi Municipality and the Bhasha, Kala, and Sanskriti Pratishthan of Bharatpur on Saturday, they presented the rituals and statutes of celebrating Yamosa to the guests and other participants of the program to show their culture.
Bagai is also home to the Dura community, who migrated from Duradanda, Lamjung. They told the program that they did not forget to sing even after leaving Lamjung. Similarly, the Gandharvas took the program forward by playing Mangaldhun from the sarangi. In the program inaugurated by Madi Municipality Mayor Tarakumari Kaji Mahato, various people spoke about Madi.
‘Madi is a bit far from Bharatpur. Now the road is better. Bridges have been built across the river. But once it was difficult to reach Madi. In such a place, different ethnic communities have long lived together. They have their own original songs, dances and culture,’ said Narayan Sapkota, chairman of Madi Pragya Pratishthan. He said that it is necessary to give identity and protect the culture of all ethnic groups.
Madi is home to indigenous Tharu, Bote, and Darai people. In addition to the indigenous Dura, Magar, Gurung, Tamang, and Newar communities, Brahmin, Chhetri, Madhesi, and Muslim communities also live in Madi. Sapkota said that there is a plan to highlight the culture of all of them. Ek Narayan Poudel, chairman of the Language, Art, and Cultural Foundation, informed that such programs will be held in the coming days as well.
