We were totally confused!!!!
I am writing after a long time, I am not sure about the reason, but the truth is I am not inclined to write more.
I am writing this from my class room, just few minutes ago, I attended a lecture about Cultural Integrity and world harmony from our Professor Dr. David Pohlman. Today, Dr. Pohlman asked us to sing the national anthem of our respective country. We are representing 10 different countries in our class. First of all a friend from Cameroon started and then other guys continued. We are six Nepalese guys in our class. We all were already confused. As we all were not sitting together in the class, we were looking each other’s face confusingly coz we don’t remember the new Byakul Maila’s song( our new national anthem) and “Srimaan Gambhira” was outdated. When it was our turn, we were really confused; we stood up but didn’t have any idea what to sing. All of a sudden my friend Subash said, “Manoz, what about Rato ra Chandra surya?” I liked his idea, I looked at others for approval, others were also really confused, but I started with “Rato ra Chandra Surya Jangi Nishana Hamro, Jiudo Ragat sari yo baldo yo shaana hamro”, and soon all of us were singing smoothly. I don’t know, if we did right, wrong or made a blunder by singing that song in place of national anthem, but, after that song, our friends appreciated our singing J, Dr. Pohlman felt that he understood some terms like Chandra and Surya and asked does that mean Son and Moon? Oh, these Maharishi’s professors understand quite a few Sanskrit words.
Today, while singing that song in the here, I felt that, “hey, this song is a very good, why this can’t be our real national anthem??” I don’t know the criterion for a song to become national anthem but I believe this song is far better and spontaneous than Byakul Maila’s “sayau thunga fulka hami”. I don’t feel that use of political words like “saarwabhaum and Agragami” is necessary for national anthem. Here, I am totally confused what is the reason behind making a competition to make a national anthem rather than choosing from the list of several available very good Nepalese national songs like “Rato ra Chandra surya”??