September 28, Adelaide: Exiled Bhutanese resettled at Adelaide in South Australia celebrated Vijaya Dasami, the most important day of the ten-day long Dasain here today.
A small but not too congested community hall at the heart of Adelaide city was full of participants who were seen rushing to take blessing with Tika from the senior members of their community. And, there were seniors from seventy eight year old Bhadra Maya Dhakal to ninety six years old Dhana Pati Poudel who were busy offering tika, chanting hymn and blessing junior members of the community with longevity, prosperity and peace of mind. Around fifty resettled Bhutanese received blessings from seniors who gathered at the hall at 2 PM after having received tika with blessings from the senior members of the family.
A team of four priests had been praying goddess Durga since yesterday which is believed to boost the strength of mankind to fight against the evil. Talking to Saranarthi Sarokar (a radio program aired from Kathmandu in Nepal focusing on Bhutanese refugee issue), one of the priests Ganga Ram Bhattarai said, ‘At the initial stage of resettlement I had thought that younger generations would soon forget our rich culture. But, their enthusiastic presence proved that we were wrong in that assumption’.
The programme was conducted with the support from Migrant Resource Centre of South Australia.
Similarly, resettled Bhutanese at other states of Australia also observed Dasain with joy. At Hobart and Launceston, they had organized various cultural shows to welcome the approaching Dasain earlier. However, the most awaited cultural show will rock Sydney and Albury-Wodonga on October 3 and 4 respectively.
Well donea nd congrats to all the Adeliade Team.
Regards,
parsu
Enjoy the festival now and how long will u enjoy i m not sure. Do not enjoy too much la Bhutaga
Are these people really Bhutanese? Never saw lhotsampas putting on a red tikka on their forehead.
Do you guys knows that there are refugees re-setteld in Canada’too???????????????????????Thanks for boyctting us,,,,,???????
Off course Canada is nothing as compared to united states.
Thanks for allowing me to comments.
Madan
Editor’s note:
We are not ignoring but someone must send us what happen there.
Dasai wishes reaching out to everyone.
All forms and rituals without values and attachment to the history of its origin shall soon fade away as do the leaves in winter. We should look for our commonality to that origin than in observances of shows and rituals. For every tree not planted by God shall be uprooted to clear the ground for others…
For how long should we be bound by meaningless rituals and worshipping of innumerable demons as if they are going to inherit the earth and the heavens and we be always under them? If people do not incline their heart to truth and change to live with truth, it becomes evident that their destruction cannot be avoided and the damnations easily justified…
Namaste.
We are really unhappy coz till now we are unable to be in contact with the reporter of APFA news. So we would like to request to apfa family to provide one reporter to Launceston Tasmania. About the news about the celebration of dasara in Adelaide we are very happy to here about the conservation of our cultural deeds. So it is not only the celebration of festival but also the way of conserving the culture. Lastly we would like to request to open the door of apfanews for the Bhutanese in Tasmania too by replying the email
THANKS
NARAD
Dear MR. Narad,
thnx for your wonderful comment.
We are trying to have access to wider part of the world where our people form diaspora.We always welcome your writups about the events occuring in your area. Please send them to editor@apfanews.com.
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Editor,apfanews