surendras, i think we may have met each other in tansen....you said you are friends with dhasarath muni's sons, hoina ra? well, i don't know the father's name, but if it's who i think it is, he has a few sons, right? and two of them are twins? i'm not using their names to respect their privacy, but i think we are talking about the same family. they own the new photocopy/communication pasal on the main street in tansen bazaar, right? a few shops down from nabil bank? i am also good friends with one of the twins. he married an american, right? tyo american pani mero sathi nai ho! i was a peace corps volunteer in chirtungdhara- the vdc immediately to the east/southeast of tansen nagarpalika. bagnas bhanne thaun chahi hamro chirtungdhara maa parchha ni! do you know ghorabhanda? kumal gaun? that's the first village on the road to aryabhanjyang after bartung....ani chilangdi aaunchha....then gabutung. and there is the school in gabutung, motar bato muni....that's my school!!! yeah, i know gorkhekot too. i used to walk through every week on my way to tansen. they have that little boarding school at the end and a sano mandir pani. my nepali family has relatives in gorset, the village in the middle of madi phat, it forms the border between chirtungdhara vdc and madan pokhara vdc. oh, how i miss palpa!!! i saw the photo kabita thread the other day for the first time and read your poem, "palpa mero aankha maa"....i printed it out and saved it! bela bela maa, palpa ko yaad aaunda, i will read your poem and feel like i am home again. please write more!!! la ta, palpali sathi, i am glad we have been able to connect through sajha! there was a thread a while back too, "anybody from palpa". anyway, enjoy this photo....in the meantime, i'll try to think of more bad poetry.....