KATHMANDU: The Tamang community celebrates Sonam Lhosar as it marks its new year 2856. It was celebrated with fanfare and jubilant participation in Dhulikhel. The Sonam Lhosar festival celebrates the lunar calendar similar to the Chinese, and it falls on the second new moon during the winter solstice.

It is a time of festivity looking toward a better future and discarding negative forces with rituals from the monasteries, eating well, buying new clothes, cleaning, and decorating the house.

The festivity is also a culturally sound and rich tradition and the Tamang community’s contribution to the diversity of Nepal. The Tamang community has a strong presence in Bagmati province in 13 districts. Various district people from the community gathered at Kathmandu in Dhulikhel to celebrate this festival in a grand way also organizing a “Cultural Fest to mark their new year.

On this year’s occasion in the organized event, youth leader of the Tamang community and member of the House of Representative (HoR) Prem Tamang participated in the event. They also discussed the problems being faced by their community and to draw the attention of the Government of Nepal (GoN) toward their needs.

They also expressed dissatisfaction that such a major event of their community was being neglected by the government and that more needed to be done to bring national limelight.

Numerous cultural programs and dances were a part of this gala event along with a variety of ethnic dishes. The crowd representing the Tamang community was humongous in Dhulikhel.

(Photo Courtesy: Mukunda Kalikote for Reporters Nepal subsidiary of the Reporters Club Nepal)

Reporters Club: Keeping in mind the vision of visit Nepal 2020, the national union for singers of Nepal will organize a grand cultural festival in South Korea.

The festival will be organized from 15-16, and this was made public through a press conference organized at the Reporters Club on Wednesday.

This festival will target people for the vision of Visit Nepal 2020 and will include programs and cultural sharing of both the countries. The union president Rajendra Kumar Karki, Vice-President Amrit Khati, and senior Vice-President Namraj Dhungana were all present at the press conference. They expressed their satisfaction over the cultural event that is taking place in Korea, and also hoped that visit Nepal 2020 will be a success.

Various other artists and union members were present on the occasion; Bikram Jung Shah, Ghamesh Dulal, Yam Baral, Shyam Dhital, Hemraj Subedi, and Suleiman Shankar were present on the occasion wishing for the success of the festival. This has been viral on social media too with various opinions coming from individuals regarding the cultural sharing festival.

In this conference, the actors also stated that they will be traveling with their personal expense rather than being funded by any external source and neither are they putting a burden on the government coffers.

With over a dozen artists present at the Reporters Club, they expressed their faith in the success of Visit Nepal 2020 and were willing to work tremendously to further spread the news to make it successful. It is a responsibility they have taken as artists and citizens. There will be prominent Korean actors too that will take part in this festival as said in the press conference. They have also requested the Nepalese diaspora residing in South Korea to make this event a grand success.