The Living Goddess of Nepali Week

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By BoRo Dolgorjav (The Fountain staff)
December 23, 2018
“We are asking the young girl Kumari to live everything all having friends, dreams, any type of socializing,” said Avash Byanjankar who wrote the script of The Grand Show for the Nepali Week 2018.

 The Grand Show of Nepali Week, represented by APU students has revealed the story of Kumari to share one of the cultural issues of Nepal at Millennium Hall on Dec 21.

 Kumari is a younger girl, highly regarded and respected living goddess in Nepal, who have chosen by a wise man.

 Avash said “We would like to present Kumari about her life as a little girl,”

 Kumari supposed to be selected from the girls who are in an age of 4-5 and remains to be Kumari until their first menstruation.

 The problems of being Kumari and afterlife of being Kumari were the main idea of the story. Kumaris were not given proper education and knowledge about social life and their surrounding.

The problem is afterlife being of Kumari, she was never allowed to talk with people except for her family, and walk in a street as she is highly respected by everyone.

 The script of the Grand Show was more about the characters that how does Kumari feel and how she was facing difficulties in the real world and society.

 “Kumari is a dream of every Nivali child who is a part of Nepal but the real story of Kumari and after the life is very difficult,” Basnet Rani who played as a Kumari said. “I was trying to feel her feeling, but I couldn’t even imagine how hard it is,”

 In a Grand Show, shed lights their feeling of loneliness because of the unsocialized even though they are a human symbol of power and protection who are respected by all the people in Nepal.

 One of the Indonesian students Muhammad Rizky said, “The story was very difficult to understand but I realized that people could be unhappy because of the tradition”.

 In the story, Kumari was very unhappy. She cries all the time and she complains that she can’t fall in love with someone. If she does, something bad happens to her husband or family.

 “It could have been longer, they could have spoken more about the belief that who has married with Kumari dies or has a horrible injury”. Sushim Thapaliya said. “As a Nepali, we were so excited to see what will happen after she loves someone, but it ended soon,”


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