Greetings & Messages

Dear Tamagithemai,

It was very nice to meet the Tamagithemai in UK during the recent Tamagi picnic held on 12th of July.  I was very surprised to learn that so many member from Tamagi are settling in UK.

My special thanks to the organising committee and those people helping in action for making the picnic successful.  I hope this this spirit will continue also in the future.

With regards, Hem in Norway.

Nice to see photographs of Tamagi and Bhichok annual get together in the Tamagi website.  The website is keeping us all updated with the latest news and photographs of Tamagians from all over the world.  Information and photographs provided are manifest to the modern technology available in the 21st century.  The design and simplicity are there.  Especially, the photographs are very nice, whereby one can clearly see the current faces of his or her friends and families.  The group photographs are very clear from the distance.

All in all, the website is bringing all Tamagian families together, who are separated from each other from this tiny village for so many years for variety of reasons.  It is nice to get to know so many people, who are now living abroad.  I think the initiative taken is a great success, and I hope this wonderful work will continue in the future.  Well done [sybash].

Finally, I would like to send my best wishes to all Tamagians all over the world .through this website

Capt(Retd) Hom Bahadur Gurung, Kathmandu

 E-mail message from Miss Yogita Gurung, eldest daughter of Capt Hombahadur Gurung/Krathemai Parah from Sydney, Australia (16/08/07)

Namaste and Sewadhok!  Thank you very much for sending emails and informing about Tamagi website.  It is a great pleasure to know about all the Tamagi families. I must say it is very interesting to learn about Kohnmai Parah, Krathemai Parah, Methemai Parah...etc  This website will definitely bring us more close to our families and relatives who are all around the globe.  Thank you very much for putting this effort to bring us all together and help us learn more about our village and our families.   Best Regards,  Yogita

E-mail Message from Mr Sundar Gurung, Chief Central and Western Region Field Office UNICEF - Courtesy of Mrs Meeta Gurung, UK (12/08/07)

Thank you for the information. It is indeed a creation of a person who live, heart and mind, with Tamagi. - a special thanks to the special person.  I am thankful to all who contributed in the development of the website.  I  am surprised to see the population of Tamagi living in U.K.  I hope everyone enjoyed the first ever tamagithemai picnic in UK.  I truly believe that this website will bring Tamagithemai closer particularly among the young people.  A pleasant news to me is the "Best Student Award in Math to Prakriti". I hope the success to Prakriti will be the source of inspiration to other young people. Please give my congratulation to her. Love and Aasirbad from Chitwan!

Mr Sundar Gurung, Chief Central and Western Region Field Office UNICEF
P.O. Box 70, Bharatpur, Chitwan, Nepal

Message from Mr Bhaktabahadur Gurung, Birmingham, UK (12/08/07)

Very delighted with what has been done.   Please pass on my best wishes to all Tamagithemai all over the world through this website. 

Original e-mail message from Mr Hem Gurung in Norway - courtesy of Mr Ramparsad Gurung, UK (10/08/07)

Dear Tamagithemae (Tamagi Family) in UK,
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>A very warm greetings from Norway!
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>It was interesting and wonderful to see the picture of Tamagi Pariwar in UK and also to learn that so many of us are living in UK. I realise that many of you in the picture are difficult for me to identify. However, I can easily recall if some days some one explain me about their parents or grand parents. Hopefully, this occasions will certainly come.
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>Time has changed and along with this the world trend of moving people over the country border has also changed. Besides and specifically, Nepal's own problem has planted the main reasons so that so many of us are today meeting in UK than for example at Tamagi. If Nepal's development situation would be favourable and had moved forward in accordance to our new generations demand, I am sure the scenario would be different.
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>As an almost(?) senior generation of Tamagi, I have some points which I want to put forward hoping that our future might be successful and at the same time the coming generation's will not forget their native village (Tamagi).
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>1. I think, no matter which part of this world (geographically) we might be living in or working with, we shall always be an individual of Tamagi. This is our identity. To strengthen and sustain this identity, two important process of actions are necessary to be maintained. (A): Continue to visit your own village time and again and also try to follow-up the contemporary changes taking place there. If possible, try to be participatory in the process. In terms of participation, one does not need to be present physically at Tamagi to be considered as a participatory member, but keeping your own curiosity alive and enhance eagerness to contribute some thing/resources/ideas/thoughts for Tamagi would be the vital contribution and is of course active participatory or participation.
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>The other point (B): Keep on going to talk/explain to your coming generation (children) about Tamagi. Be able to feed them at least some words, have good pictures of Tamagi in album or in the wall, collect articles if any written about Tamagi, inform or tell about the happenings at Tamagi and its surroundings and many more. By doing this to the coming generations while they are still in the stage of childhood or young, they will have good impression and memory of Tamagi. Tamagi will then always survive.
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>2. WE, Tamagi people should be proud on our capacities: like having good GUTS of entrepreneurship, high moral obligations, straight forward behaviour, egalitarian approach and for excellent capacity to stand on our own feets. If one in general term analyse the general statistic of Tamagi people during the last 40-50 years, we score very high mark compared to thousands of villages in the remote part of Nepal. Being such a tiny village in the Himalayan region of Nepal, its ability to sustain life in an acceptable manner in the Nepali context is significantly high. This is of course in various discipline. And this is very good. Of course, the scenario here is compared with the contemporary situation of Nepal. To my mind, these values and the attitude should be continued to sustained...
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>3. Finally, the most valuable tools and capacity to survive in the future would be Education. Every means and resources should be prioritised to spend in this sectors. This should be started as early as possible. Education environment at home is very important in this regard. This is of course a very long process and takes generations before we really notice its significance. The most strongest tools/weapons or gift a parent can give to their children today is Education, education with big E. The education could be of diverse and in various areas. Diversity in all discipline is a rich quality of any society, I think.
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>Well, a professional and attractive but well thought stickers of Tamagi would be in its own place. If some one could have creative ideas and thought on this. A Tamagi Bulletin publishing 2-3 times an year would also be very positive to hold keeping Tamagithemae together around the world. Pictures, news related to our native village and its surroundings and interviews could be of the contents.
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>This much for this time and thanks a lot for sending me the picture. I do hope that I might be able to participate in the next planned Tamagi Picnic of 2008 in UK. Many thanks to our VDC chairperson, Mr. Bhakta Bahadur Gurung who I assume took real initiative to arrange this picnic. He was keeping me oriented about the initiative. This tradition should be continued also in the future and I do hope for that...
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>With lots of regards from me and my family in Norway,
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>Hem Gurung of Tamagi, now in Norway

Message from Captain Hombahadur Gurung, Kathmandu, Nepal (09/08/07)

Absolutely delighted to see our villagers united.  My expectations have been met. Thank you for setting the standard.  Keep up your good work.

Message from Mr Santosh Gurung, Camberley, UK (08/08/07)

I am delighted with our website which has just been launched.  We now have a great opportunity to unite our villagers through this website from all over the world.  I would like to thank the webmaster for his fantastic work!  

Message from Mr Prakash Gurung, Sydney, Australia (08/08/07)

"I am honoured to be a part of this big family".  It is wonderful to see a website totally dedicated to our village or our original home. All praises go to you and all the tamagians out there for this new effort to unite us through the help of the worldwideweb. I am sure the website will bring us closer to our relative whom, we have not met or seen for a very long time.